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Inquiry and Project Learning (EDUC91060)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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- Assessment
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Semester 2
Overview
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This subject will support Teacher Candidates’ understanding of the value of environmental sustainability inquiry and project learning with young children. Teacher Candidates will explore ways to design, enact and document inquiry-based projects that foreground Australian Indigenous knowledges and arts practices, and support children’s diverse ways of learning.
Specific sustainability topics will include living well with our earthly relations, relationality and the planet, and Indigenous-informed practices. Frameworks addressed in the subject will include the Early Years and Learning Framework, Victorian Early Learning and Development Framework and the Australian Curriculum.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to:
- Critically reflect on the ways in which pedagogies and learning theories support the use of inquiry and project learning.
- Investigate how inquiry and project learning can be used to cultivate learning in reciprocity with socio-cultural-material contexts and support citizenship for environmental sustainability.
- Design and compose inquiry-based projects that foreground Indigenous worldviews and sustainable practices and attend to local cultures and contexts.
- Design and implement inquiry-based projects that promote diversity, participation, access and inclusion.
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Linking theory and practice.
- Inquiry and research.
- Active and participatory citizenship.
- Ethical and intercultural understanding.
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Presentation: Podcast on inquiry and project learning (4–6-minute audio recording)
| Early semester | 20% |
Planning Document: Design learning experience using inquiry and project learning focused on sustainability
| Mid semester | 40% |
Essay: Written pedagogical narration on an ordinary teaching moment
| During the examination period | 40% |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 80% attendance at, or engagement with, all sessions identified as contact hours (may include lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops, both synchronous and asynchronous). | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Angela Molloy Murphy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24 hours (14 hours of on-campus classes and 10 hours of asynchronous online activities) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2023 to 22 October 2023 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2023 Census date 31 August 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2023 Assessment period ends 17 November 2023 Semester 2 contact information
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) - Links to additional information
Melbourne Graduate School of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024