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Inquiry and Project Learning (EDUC91060)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Semester 2
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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