| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1 |
| Old unit code |
300.411 |
| Outcomes |
Students gain an understanding of how contemporary education, including education in Australia, can be described, analysed and critiqued from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. |
| Content |
This unit focuses on the aims, curriculum, teaching, management and teacher preparation aspects of education in contemporary society. It details how these aspects in any society, including Australian society, can be described, analysed and critiqued using selected philosophical, sociological and historical frameworks. |
| Assessment |
This comprises a short oral presentation and a 3500-word essay.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a Graduate Diploma in Education student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Winthrop Professor Tom O'Donoghue |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
Contact hours—lectures: 2.5 hrs per week for 10 weeks
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
- Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.
- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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