ED3490:03
Educational Foundations
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 1 |
February block mode.
Staff: Mr G Coombs, Professor B Davies (Townsville campus); Assoc. Professor B Osborne, Mr E Wilson, Dr P Boman (Cairns campus).
This subject introduces a range of theoretical approaches to the study of the practices of education with a particular focus on teachers’ work. Topics include access, participation and outcomes in Australian education; literacies, discourse and power in education in relation to individual and cultural differences and child and adolescent development.
Learning Objectives:
- examine relationships among school contexts, educational policies/philosophies and teachers’ work;
- examine the relations among literacies, discourses and power in educational settings particularly as they relate to gender, class and rurality;
- examine theories of learning, childhood and adolescence and their educational implications.
Assessment by child study (35%); seminar presentation and defence (25%); presentation and defence of written assignment (40%).