Education and change
Not offered in 1995
3 hours per week * First/Second semester * Peninsula
Implementing change in schools: an examination of how change can be implemented in schools and the role of the teacher or administrator in this. An examination of teacher responses to change and the factors that affect this response. This will include such topics as teacher stress and teacher support. An historical overview: an examination of some significant changes that have occurred in education in the past. This part of the subject will focus on Victorian education and deal with the factors that affected the change, the process of change and the implications of the change for teachers, the school and the curriculum. Technology and education: the importance of technology in today's society and in the education of its members will be used as a current example of the change process and how it affects teachers, schools and the curriculum. This part of the study will involve the students in developing their own experience with technology and problem-solving activities as well as an investigation of how this can be or is being done in the school environment.
Assessment
Written: 100%
Recommended texts
Fullan M The new meaning of educational change Teacher's College Press, 1991
Ornstein A and Hunkins F Curriculum foundations, principles and theory 2nd edn, Allyn and Bacon, 1993