units

EDF5178

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Education
OfferedClayton Second semester 2015 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2015 (Online)
Coordinator(s)Dr Jennifer Bleazby

Notes

This unit is part B of a two-part unit and must be taken in conjunction with part A (EDF5177).

Synopsis

This unit builds on the understanding developed in EDF5177 Social education in the secondary years A, to further prepare students to become effective and knowledgeable social education teachers. Students develop the ability to critically explore different approaches to teaching social education in Years 7 to 12. The unit involves an examination of various strategies, resources, activities and forms of assessment for teaching different areas of the social education curriculum. Students also critically examine national curriculum documents and explore examples of international research on social education teaching and learning, to prepare them to be teachers in other global contexts.

Outcomes

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

  1. demonstrate a critical understanding of contemporary trends in, and approaches to, social education teaching in Australia and internationally
  2. identify, evaluate and use different resources for teaching social education
  3. effectively plan and teach social education lessons across different year levels and for students of diverse backgrounds and abilities
  4. develop units of work that meet the requirements of curriculum documents for Years 7 to 10 and the post-compulsory Years 11 and 12, in either Australian or other global curriculum
  5. understand and implement effective assessment programs for Years 7 to 12 social education and for students of diverse backgrounds and abilities
  6. effectively design social education lessons that integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs)
  7. design social education lessons that facilitate critical thinking, research, numeracy and literacy skills.

Assessment

Assessment design task (2000 words, 50%)
Unit of work (2000 words equivalent, 50%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

  • 3 contact hours per week including 1 hour lecture

(b.) Additional requirements

  • independent study to make up the minimum required hours per week

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Jennifer Bleazby

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Primary and secondary education
Secondary education
Secondary health and physical education

Prerequisites

EDF5177