ED3490 - Educational Foundations

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
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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 Outcomes

• examine the relations among literacies, discourses and power in educational settings particularly as they relate to gender, class and rurality;
• examine relationships among school contexts, educational policies/philosophies and teachers work;
• examine theories of learning, childhood and adolescence and their educational implications.

Prerequisites:	Undergraduate degree
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ED1401 and ED1421

Availabilities
, , Study Period 3
Census Date 27-Jan-2006
Face to face teaching 30-Jan-2006 to 03-Feb-2006
Coord/Lect:	edeaw.
Contact hours:	13 hours 13 hours 13 hours
Assessment:	(20% - 40%); (20% - 40%); (20% - 50%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Final weightings to be negotiated by the cohort of students and teaching staff prior to commencement of the face-to-face component of the subject.
, , Study Period 3
Census Date 27-Jan-2006
Face to face teaching 30-Jan-2006 to 03-Feb-2006
Coordinator:	edmjv
Lecturer:	jc151236.
Contact hours:	13 hours 13 hours 13 hours
Assessment:	(20% - 40%); (20% - 40%); (20% - 50%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Final weightings to be negotiated by the cohort of students and teaching staff prior to commencement of the face-to-face component of the subject.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.