CYP5053 - Education Policy and the Curriculum

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module reviews education policy within its wider societal context, with particular focus on the period after the 1944 Education Act.

Students will consider:

• The nature and impact of wider societal factors, such as economics, culture and religion;
• The development of political ideologies, their perspectives on education and their relationship with education ideologies;
• The perspectives and influence of key players such as governments, the market, professionals, parents, pupils/students, religious organisations, consumers and taxpayers.
• The curriculum as contestable educational terrain within the context of competing models and policies.
Illustrative themes include access, selection, equal opportunity, curriculum content and control, state control/professional and religious autonomy, evaluation/accountability, education expansion and education funding.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Formal scheduled teaching and learning activities including interactive classes online and face to face and e-tutorials
Hours: 50
Intended Group Size: Cohort (up to 40)

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Formative Assessments at all Levels involves students tackling parts of an assessment task or related task and benefiting from peer and tutor review or participants. In this way, the early assessment provides students with the opportunity to identify areas of strength and weakness and develop their understanding of how to complete successfully the summative assessment. E.G. In seminars/workshops, student groups provide structured input/ feedback on each other’s work, set in the context of tutor and peer input. Students can then use this feedback and the critiques to inform their submission of final assessment

The first assignment will be the production of a poster that includes different factors, perspectives and ideologies ; the second assignment is an essay which will include in equal measure, the proposal and then the review of a policy.

The integrated assessment will be to appraise the effectiveness of an Educational policy or practice. br>
Further information will be included in the Module Handbook.

Assessment:

001 Integrated assessment; 1,000 word equiv; end of semester 1 25%
002 Poster presentation+rationale; 1,500 word equiv; end of sem1 25%
003 Policy proposal+review; 1,500 words each; end of semester 1 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Icarbord Tshabangu
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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