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ED3490:03

Educational Foundations

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

Please check prerequisites in Master Schedule.
January/ 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%).