ED3190:03
Primary Social and Environmental Education
Townsville, Cairns, External
HECS Band 1
26 hours lectures, 13 hours workshops. Semester 1 internal. External in Semester 2 for RATEP students.
Staff: Ms H McDonald (Townsville campus); Dr P Fitzsimons (Cairns campus).
The subject is organised around teachers’ decision making in planning and implementing learnings in social and environmental education in primary schools in keeping with new syllabus developments in Queensland, and current trends within Australia and beyond. It aims to develop preservice teachers’ competence in planning, implementing and assessing engaging and effective learning experiences and programs that position primary school students as active participants in their society. Students are introduced to key concepts, processes and values in studies of society and environment.
Learning Objectives:
- students understand the theoretical orientations, sources of knowledge and pedagogy of social and environmental education for primary students;
- students explore links between principles and policies in studies of society and environment and their implementation in planning, delivering and evaluating such programs in primary schools;
- students display familiarity with recent syllabus developments by preparing engaging, effective and inclusive units which provide significant learnings in social and environmental education and cater for a variety of learner characteristics, needs and contexts.
Assessment by group workshop presentation (30%); curriculum unit (70%).