2009 Course Handbook
EDUC264: Education: The Policy Context
This unit builds on EDUC106, and is designed to provide students with an understanding of the place of education in contemporary society. It examines aspects of the context of education such as policy and the way policy is socially constructed. It notes the importance of policy in the lives of contemporary teachers, and the ways in which classroom practices is increasingly framed by policy settings. The unit also examines the way the culture of the school is responding to the context of the market, and the way issues of impression management, as manifested in websites and prospectuses and uniforms, have become constant preoccupations of schools as well as other education institutions. Finally, the unit examines the everyday culture of school and the theories underpinning what education ought to be like according to various liberal, libertarian and liberatory approaches to education.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: |
D1 - Day; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: 15 April; 16 May) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Colin Symes |
| Prerequisites: | EDUC106(P) or (admission to GDipEd or BEd(Prim) or BEd(Sec)) |
| Corequisites: | EDUC105 or (admission to GDipEd or BEd(Prim) or BEd(Sec)) |
| NCCWs: | |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Education |
Timetable Information
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