ED5861:04
Issues in Torres Strait Education
External
HECS Band 1
External through World Wide Web mode and Web conferencing nationally and internationally. Semester 1.
Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.
Staff: Assoc. Professor B Osborne.
This subject introduces students to the education of Torres Strait Islanders 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:
- to demonstrate an understanding of the historical background to schooling Torres Strait Islanders in Torres Strait and on the mainland;
- to appreciate the complexity of educational issues confronting both Torres Strait Islanders and their teachers;
- to critically examine a variety of approaches which have been posited as useful for teaching Torres Strait Islanders;
- to develop approaches, modifications to core curriculum and its assessment to improve education for and with Torres Strait Islanders.
Assessment by test on first three topics (30%); Web conferencing on three issues (30%); personal policy paper (3,000 words) (40%).