ED3490:04
Educational Foundations
Townsville, Cairns
Inadmissable Subject Combination: ED1401 ED1421
13 lectures, 13 tutorials, 13 hours flexible delivery. First semester.
This subject introduces key aspects of the context of education and teaching and their impact on teachers’ work, with a focus on social justice issues. Topics include access, participation and outcomes in Australian education; language, literacies, power and discourses in education; cultural diversity, including race, class, gender and rurality; and technological change. These notions provide a framing for subsequent studies in education.
Learning Objectives:
- identify relationships among school contexts, educational policy and teachers’ work;
- explain links among culture, language, technological change and power in the social construction of gender, race, class, ethnic and rural inequality;
- critique rival explanations of the role of schools and curriculum in sustaining inequality in society.
Assessment by 2,000 word essay (40%); two hour examination (60%).
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