units
EDF4514
Faculty of Education
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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Level | Undergraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Education |
Offered | Not offered in 2015 |
The unit explores the growing emphasis on developing capacity in the workplace as a key platform of vocational education and training policy reform in Australia and overseas in recent decades. The unit will draw on workplace learning as it manifests within school curriculum as well as the ways in which teachers experience this in the school as workplace. Students will be introduced to the rationale for the introduction of vocational curriculums in schools and their connection to curriculum programs within them.
Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:
Critical evaluation of a vocational curriculum in schools (2000 words, 50%)
Reflection and analysis on workplace learning (2000 words equivalent, 50%)
Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester comprising:
(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:
(b.) Additional requirements
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Enrolment in pre-service teacher education qualification, Bachelor of Education or Graduate Diploma of Education