EDU101 - Education, Knowledge and Society

Unit details

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Year:2019 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Trimester 1 Unit Chair:

Piper Rodd

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

Burwood: 1 x 1 hour class, 1 x 2 hour seminar across 9 weeks

Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online):

Online independent and collaborative learning activities

Content

This unit investigates how educational experiences may be understood in terms of formal and informal human activities and compares the different principles underpinning these educational experiences. It considers the development of professional knowledge in Education and the development of a range of educational institutions that serve an educational purpose in modern society, including those institutions serving different stages of human development such as: early childhood Education, schooling, training, higher Education and adult and community Education. The unit considers key theories informing the sociology of Education and how these theories can be applied to analyse the relationship between the human activity of Education, the individual and society.

Assessment

Assessment 1 - Multimedia presentation (1600 words equivalent) - 40%

Assessment 2 - Analytic Essay (2400 words) - 60%

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