ED1401:03
Introduction to Education
Townsville, Cairns
Inadmissable Subject Combination: ED1001
39 hours of lectures/tutorials/workshops or equivalent; one week professional experience in an educational setting. First semester.
Staff: Dr A Patterson (Townsville campus); Professor B Osborne (Cairns campus).
The subject is an orientation to teaching as a profession. Students’ investigations of schooling and teachers’ work are framed by various approaches to educational inquiry. Current issues in education, including equity issues, are explored through a range of practical activities and readings. The subject also introduces students to academic reading, writing, group work, and to other components of the BEd program.
Learning Objectives:
- a knowledge of current issues related to schooling within a context of various approaches to educational inquiry;
- an understanding of factors shaping teachers’ work;
- an understanding of a range of explanations of inequalities and inequities in education;
- appropriate academic reading, writing and group work skills.
Assessment by group poster project or email tutorial project (10-20%); 1500 word essay (40%); end of semester examination; successful completion of professional experience component (40-50%).
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