ED3490:04
Educational Foundations
Townsville, Cairns
Inadmissable Subject Combination: ED1401 ED1421
13 lectures, 13 tutorials, 13 hours flexible delivery. Full year.
Staff: Mr G Coombs, Professor B Davies (Townsville campus); Assoc. Professor B Osborne (Cairns campus).
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%).