EDN7015

Teaching in schools

Lecturer-in-charge to be advised

6 points - 4 hours per week - First semester - Peninsula

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should have developed an understanding of the school in our society, the role and responsibilities of the teacher, key curriculum concepts, certain basic pedagogical skills and a number of important contextual issues.

Synopsis This subject is divided into two parts, part A and part B. Part A deals with the primary Schools of the Future as its model and focuses upon the school as an organisational unit, the classroom teacher and a number of specific pedagogical skills, such as lesson planning, for which training will be supplied in anticipation of their application in the practicum. Part B focuses upon those 'contextual' issues which explain the place of the Schools of the Future in a social setting dominated currently by 'market place' values. The major thesis to be argued in part B is that schools are predominantly 'instruments of national purpose'. Part B concludes with a philosophical analysis of these classroom focused concepts: education, schooling, curriculum, indoctrination, punishment and the nature of values and their role in 'driving' the curriculum process.

Assessment Two assignments (2000 words) plus hurdle: 20% - Class test: 30% - Examination (2 hours): 50%

Recommended texts

Victorian Board of Studies Curriculum and standards framework (full set of series) VBOS, 1995

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