476-104 Education 1: Children Schools & Society

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476-104 Education 1: Children Schools & Society
Credit Points	18.75
Coordinator	Kay Margetts
Corequisites	460-100 School Experience 1.
Semester	Year long (view timetable)
Contact	A total of 54 hours
Subject Description	This subject offers an overview of educational theory and practice to enable students to develop their initial perspectives of teaching through an understanding of children, schools and society; an introductory examination of the philosophical and sociological bases of education, linked to experiences in schools; and an overview of developmental theories which have contributed to knowledge of how children come to understand their world and their social reality.
Assessment	Assignments totalling 4500 words or equivalent.
Prescribed Texts	A Woolfolk and K Margetts, Educational Psychology. Sydney: Pearson Education, 2007.

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