ED4925:04
Education in Torres Strait
Townsville, Cairns
Inadmissable Subject Combination: SD3521
39 contact hours. First semester. Multimedia mode only.
Staff: Assoc. Professor B Osborne.
This subject introduces students to education in Torres Strait within an historical, socio-political and cultural framework. Students are required to analyse various research and policy texts to examine major issues impacting on the education of Torres Strait Islanders and to suggest potential resolutions of these issues.
Learning Objectives:
- demonstrate an understanding of the historical background to schooling Torres Strait Islanders;
- appreciate the complexity of educational issues confronting both Torres Strait Islanders and their teachers;
- critically examine a variety of approaches which have been posited as useful for teaching Torres Strait Islanders;
- develop teaching approaches as well as modifications to core curriculum and its assessment which might be used if teaching Torres Strait Islanders.
Assessment by test on first two modules (30%); email seminar (30%); personal policy paper (2,000 words) (40%).
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