Undergraduate - UnitEDF3311 - Understanding space and place

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Monash Passport category	Internship (Act Program)
Offered	Gippsland Second semester 2014 (Day) Peninsula Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Monica Green (Gippsland); Dr Gloria Quinones (Peninsula)

Synopsis

In this unit students will explore the components of place and space in the context of local and global educational settings and contexts. Students will engage in their own communities through local history, culture and environment. There is a significant focus on children's place making in their own educational settings and communities. The unit also considers how places affect relationships to other people and other places.

Outcomes

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

appreciate and understand their own communities through local history, culture and environment;
plan, implement and evaluate experiences that connect educational settings and communities;
engage children in place making in their own educational settings and communities, and
consider how places affect relationships to other people and other places.

Fieldwork

15 days' placement in a primary school setting

Assessment

Journal (2000 words, 50%)
Successful completion of placement and allied tasks (2000 words or equivalent, 50%)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Gloria Quinones

Workload requirements

3 contact hours (max) per week, 9 hours private study including readings, completion of set tasks and self-directed learning