GED3908

Schools for tomorrow

Not offered in 1999

Professor D N Aspin

12 points - 4 hours per week - First semester - Clayton

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to identify major philosophical, policy, administrative and educational issues pertaining to helping school leaders respond to the challenges of creating 'schools for tomorrow'; consider some of the aims, goals and principles underlying and directing teaching and learning activities offered in the schools of tomorrow, particularly related to the needs of citizens in the learning society and the knowledge economy of the twenty-first century; consider how schools might be re-conceptualised and redefined as community learning centres offering lifelong learning for all; delineate some of the major problems that might be encountered in the attempt to implement visions of and aims for schools for tomorrow and to suggest ways and means by which such problems might be successfully tackled; identify new directions in educational policy and practice animating and driving visions of schools for tomorrow, and to propose a set of agenda for leaders of such schools; develop their own philosophy of education for schooling in the twenty-first century and to put forward a set of agenda for policy development, implementation and evaluation in education more generally.

Synopsis This subject should assist students to tackle some of the challenging intellectual and professional issues, topics and problems associated with the current interest in and emphasis on redefining the place to learn, particularly as this relates to the role, activities and responsibilities of schools in the twenty-first century. It aims to show students how they may use the knowledge and skills to be gained from studies of the latest developments on curriculum, teaching and learning, assessment, pedagogy, classroom organisation, school administration, management of resources, and interaction with other providers and agencies of learning in the community, to build their own philosophy of and approach to preparing their schools, institutions and educational systems for the future.

Assessment Seminar presentation and assignment (5000 words for MEd students, 8000 words for EdD students): 100% - Class presentation (compulsory requirement, ungraded)

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