Beyond Siloed Approaches to Science (EDUC91040)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2025
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The Victorian Years 7 – 10 Earth and Space Science Curriculum will be the content focus for this subject. Participants will use this content focus to consider the role of the nature of science in students’ understanding of science and investigate a range of frameworks for developing students’ understanding of the nature of science and developing science reasoning skills.
In this final subject, participants will also consider a range of methods and issues for moving beyond a siloed approach to teaching science. Frameworks for integrating subjects and examples of integrated topics will be critically evaluated by the participants. These ideas will also be used to consider the place of STEM in the school curriculum.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Develop pedagogical content knowledge for teaching year 7 – 10 Earth and Space Science
- Develop reasoned viewpoints on the contemporary understanding the Nature of Science
- Identify and critically examine how different conceptions of the Nature of Science are applied in the context of science education
- Apply an understanding of the Nature of Science to classroom practice
- Critically appraise the interdisciplinary nature of science and science education, respectively, and the relationship between the two
- Understand and apply an interdisciplinary approach to science education through the integration of disciplinary concepts and pedagogical practices – especially the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
- Enact the requisite reasoning, skills and dispositions that allow for integrated and interdisciplinary approaches to science education
Generic 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: 4 March 2025