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Contemporary Education Debates (EDUC90903)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
February
Overview
Availability | February - Online |
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This subject will introduce students to key contemporary education debates that relate to secondary school policy. Through this subject students will analyse current education reform, and the debates that surround them, through careful examination of the relevant research literature. Students will develop key professional skills in research and policy critical analysis. Four main themes underpin the subject: 1) the relationship of schools to society, community and parents; 2) the role of school in preparing students for their future; 3) contemporary testing and standards reform; and 4) global and national neoliberal policy reform, including school funding, school markets, and choice-based reforms. Through studying different case studies of debates and reform students will consider the variety of issues that underpin schooling practice, research and polices. This will include engaging with key debates surrounding schooling and equity, global competitiveness, Indigenous rights, sexuality, notions of deficit, gender and disability and ability.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject teacher candidates should be able to:
Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
- Understand key debates in the policy and practice of schooling (Graduate Standards n/a)
- Analyse contemporary education debates, drawing on relevant research literature (Graduate Standards n/a)
- Demonstrate awareness of the multiple, and competing, interests in schooling policy and practice (Graduate Standards n/a)
- Understand contemporary education debates in social, cultural, political and historical context (Graduate Standards n/a)
Generic skills
MTeach graduates will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Clinical reasoning and thinking
- Problem solving
- Evidence based 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
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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EDUC90902 | Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms (Sec) | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
6.25 |
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Written response to a reading
| First half of the teaching period | 30% |
Essay on a chosen contemporary educational debate
| End of the teaching period | 70% |
Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled seminars, tutorials and workshops | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- February - Online
Principal coordinator Jessica Gerrard Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 12 Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 21 February 2022 to 15 April 2022 Last self-enrol date 3 March 2022 Census date 18 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 15 June 2022 February contact information
Time commitment details
85 hours
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A collection readings will be available online via the LMS
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Secondary)
Last updated: 10 February 2024