units

EDF3007

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 25 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Education
OfferedClayton Second semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Dr Scott Bulfin

Synopsis

The unit provides students with an understanding of how to engage with young and adolescent learners across discipline areas through their literacy and numeracy practices, in and out of school. By linking theory and practice, the unit offers a sociocultural perspective on language, literacy and numeracy as social, cultural, political and technological practices that develop in multiple contexts, both in and out of schools and classrooms, and play key roles in mediating learners' identities, relationships and understandings of the world.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. recognise the centrality of language and literacy in mediating learning in and out of school and the importance of ties between home and school practices;
  2. develop an understanding of literacy and numeracy as social practices, and become aware of relationships between identity and learning;
  3. develop an understanding of the relationship between language and identity;
  4. be familiar with a range of theories that reconceptualise traditional understandings of school and out-of-school literacy and numeracy and their social, cultural, political and pedagogical implications;
  5. be able to analyse the literacy and numeracy practices in classrooms, schools and out-of-school settings;
  6. be sensitive to sociocultural diversity in school communities and begin developing a professional capacity to recognise, respond and teach to difference; and
  7. be familiar with a range of policy and curriculum initiatives and their pedagogical implications.

Fieldwork

5 days shared across this unit and EDF3008 Researching educational practices

Assessment

Assessment task 1 - critical narrative (2,000 words or equivalent; 50%)
Assessment task 2 - academic essay (2,000 words; 50%)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Scott Bulfin

Contact hours

2 hrs per week

Prerequisites

Must have passed units in {EDF1303, EDF1304, EDF2004, EDF2005}