Undergraduate - UnitEDF1011 - Knowledge and context

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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
Offered	Berwick Second semester 2015 (Day) Clayton Second semester 2015 (Day) Peninsula Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Ms Amber McLeod (Berwick); Dr John Pardy (Clayton); Dr Timothy Fish (Peninsula)

Synopsis

This unit explores different knowledge traditions to develop student's understanding of the importance and relationships between context and knowledge across discipline streams. It critically considers the different paradigms of knowledge to explore differences or similarities between the physical sciences and humanities or social sciences perspectives. Students identify, compare, contrast and discuss different disciplinary approaches to knowledge and become familiar with the relationships between knowledge and context.

Outcomes

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

demonstrate a grasp of the relationship between knowledge and context
demonstrate some familiarity with a variety of knowledge traditions
demonstrate independent research skills
construct a bibliography and correctly use citation
write well-structured essays
prepare for and deliver an oral report.

Assessment

Tutorial presentation and paper (1600 words equivalent, 40%)
Written task (2400 words, 60%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

one 2-hour lecture per week
one 90-minute tutorial per week

(b.) Additional requirements:

independent study to make up the minimum required hours per week

Chief examiner(s)

Dr John Pardy