CYP5063 - Education, Inequality and Social Justice

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:

The module will be structured around key sources of social inequality in the education field: class, gender, ethnic background and others. Around these key themes the course will explore: the empirical reality of forms of educational inequality; the key theories which attempt to explain the social reproduction of inequalties especially around class, ethnicity, gender and disability; Social justice and education; policy impacts on patterns of educational inequality and opportunity.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Formal scheduled teaching and learning activities, including interactive online and face to face lectures and e-tutorials
Hours: 50
Intended Group Size: 40

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Formative Assessments at all Levels involve 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 provide an example of where there are conflicting theories/ policies relating to social justice and education. The second assignment will further develop and expand on how such conflicts become integrated within education.

The integrated assessment will be to appraise the effectiveness of an Educational policy or practice.

Further information will be included in the Module Handbook.

Assessment:

001 Integrated assessment; 1,500 word equiv; end of semester 1 25%
002 Case study; 1,500 word equiv; emd of semester 1 25%
003 Essay; 3,000 words; end of semester 2 50%

Fact File

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

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