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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 examines the education of Torres Strait Islander students historically to the present in the light of various research and policy documents. Students identify and closely examine a wide range of issues that impact on Torres Strait Islander students and their communities in order to propose some resolutions of these issues.

Learning Objectives:

understand and explain the complexity of issues, including their historical origins, confronting Torres Strait Islanders, their various communities and teachers;

critically examine a variety of approaches which have been proposed as useful for teaching Torres Strait Islanders;

develop approaches and modifications to core curriculum and its assessment in order to improve education for and with Torres Strait Islanders.

Assessment by test (30%); web-based discussion of three issues (30%); 3,500 word essay on preferred teaching/curriculum approach (40%).