Addressing Educational Disadvantage (EDUC90737)

The subject will focus on issues of pedagogy, curriculum, school culture and change and how they relate to increasing student achievement, engagement and retention in challenging school settings. This subject will build on more general work done in the first year of the Master of Teaching to focus specifically on addressing low student achievement and engagement at the level of the individual school student, but also at the school level. The subject will also examine the school and the classroom itself with their own dominant systems of values, ideologies and differing relationships of power and authority.