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EDF1104

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 26 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

0 points, SCA Band 2, 0.000 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Education

Offered

Peninsula

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit monitors fieldwork taken concurrently with EDF1175 Ways of knowing outdoor environments. Students develop their experiential knowledge and skills in outdoor environments and apply, question, test and consolidate theories and concepts that students are exploring in EDF1175. These experiences also provide students with the opportunity to build competencies in the professional requirements associated with fieldwork provision in outdoor education and environmental studies, that is, in the conduct of outdoor activities, safe planning, risk management and experience in the logistical support required for the provision of fieldwork programs.

Outcomes

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

  1. adapt experiential knowledge and skills in diverse outdoor environmental contexts
  2. develop skills to review and analyse individual learning needs in professional practice
  3. complete the required number of days of fieldwork experience and the activities specified in the professional experience guides for this unit
  4. record, through a fieldwork experience logbook, their field-based learning and self-reflections on their developing knowledge and skills in professional practice.

Fieldwork

5 days of fieldwork experience

Assessment

This unit is graded pass grade only (PGO).
Fieldwork experience logbook

Workload requirements

Students complete:
(a.) 3-hour workshop briefing on information that pertains specifically to the fieldwork experience component
(b.) minimum of 5 days of fieldwork experience in a Victorian National Park or environmental reserve

See also Unit timetable information

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

Secondary health and physical education

Co-requisites

EDF1175