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Teaching Global Perspectives (EDUC90727)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
July
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | July |
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Twenty-first century Australians are members of a global community, connected to the whole world by ties of culture, economics, politics, enhanced communication, travel and a shared environment. Enabling young people to participate in shaping a better-shared future for the world is at the heart of the dynamic and evolving field of global education. This field is committed to fostering a broader understanding of world issues and working towards change, especially to the eradication of global poverty and inequality. Global education is relevant across all learning areas; its emphasis is on developing knowledge and skills, in addition to promoting positive values and participation.
The subject addresses the strategies and resources for enriching teaching. The five key learning emphases that reflect the recurring themes in global education are interdependence and globalisation, identity and cultural diversity, social justice and human rights, peace and sustainable futures. This elective will provide students with opportunities to develop the ideas and values inherent in global education, including strategies to develop an inclusive classroom environment. We will host presenters from various corners of the globe to think and debate with us.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Understand global perspectives as a priority within current school curricula;
- Work within global trends in education, culture, politics, and history to understand the forces that shape and impact school dynamics and classroom practice;
- Identify areas in curriculum in which primary or secondary students would benefit from a global perspective;
- Enrich the teaching and learning of their discipline or specialised pathway with a global perspective.
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Clinical reasoning and thinking
- Problem solving
- Historically grounded decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Learning to learn and metacognition
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
- Reflection for continuous improvement
- Linking theory and practice
- Inquiry and research
- Active and participatory citizenship.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Essay
| Mid semester | 30% |
A unit of work and rationale
| End of semester | 60% |
Group oral Presentation (500 words equivalent)
| End of semester | 10% |
Hurdle requirement: Completion of the online Global Education Professional Learning Module | Mid semester | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: Minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- July
Coordinator Licho Lopez Lopez Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 July 2020 to 25 September 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 August 2020 Census date 31 August 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 12 October 2020 Assessment period ends 2 November 2020 July contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
This subject has an enrolment quota of 30 students. Preference will be given to MTeach Primary students completing the associated Specialised Pathway. Your subject enrolment will not be confirmed until the selection process has been run.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Primary) Course Master of Teaching (Secondary)
Last updated: 10 February 2024