units

EDF6863

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Education
OfferedClayton Term 2 2015 (Online)
Coordinator(s)Dr Miriam Faine

Synopsis

This unit involves identifying, investigating, improving and reporting on a learning dimension of the student's work. The starting point is on the student's identity as a learning practitioner, that is, a person whose work focuses on learning in organisational settings, in local communities and/or in educational institutions. It builds on the current attention given to learning that occurs in everyday work practices as well as in formal educational settings. Several perspectives of learning are explored, all of which emphasise the importance of the learners' personal, theoretical and cultural locations.

Outcomes

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

  1. understand and foster the learning dimension of their work
  2. critically examine and describe their identity as learner practitioners and the way this identity is constructed through a number of local and global conditions
  3. critically engage with various conceptual perspectives on learning in practice that may be influencing their work
  4. develop a critical analysis of their work and workplace.

Assessment

Online participation (800 words equivalent, 10%)
Case study of a workplace issue (3200 words equivalent, 40%)
Analysis of learning in practice (4000 words equivalent, 50%)

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Miriam Faine