SED7133 - Contemporary Issues in Education

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Critically discuss contemporary perspectives on, and issues in, education, to inform practice.
Synthesise knowledge and critical understandings of two contemporary perspectives on education, in order to compose two reflective accounts.
Appraise the findings and conclusions of relevant research and scholarship in order to provide a rationale for constructing an action plan to develop professional practice.
Critically evaluate the impact of their learning on practice by formulating a professional action plan for improving personal and/or institutional practice in education.

Content:

The module will enage students with a broad range of new and emerging issues across different sectors in education. The content will allow students to explore a range of philosophical, theoretical and practical issues facing those working in comtemporary educational contexts, and will allow students to contextualise their learning on new perspectives/initiatives appropriately. Students will develop knowledge, critical understanding and skills through an engagement with the new perspectives on, and issues about, Education.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Students will learn through a mix of approaches. These include lead lectures from experts in the field; some guest speakers may be used to deliver lead lectures in specific areas. These lectures will then be linked with seminars / workshops to facilitate discussion and activities to share ideas, engage in activities and thereby promote learning. A dialogic approach in the seminars will allow for significant group discussion and feedback sessions. This will enable students to share ideas with colleagues from other sectors/backgrounds or specialisms. The module will make use of Moodle for fostering peer learning.

Scheduled teaching and learning: seminars, workshops and tutorials
Hours: 30
Intended group size: 20

Tutorials
Hours: 2
Intended group size: 1

Guided independent study
Hours: 268

Other relevant matters
The lead lectures and seminars for this module will be open to other members of the University and may be advertised externally in a small number of cases, especially where external speakers are being used. This will be of benefit to students in enriching the discussion and in sharing significant expertise across the academic community.

Assessment:

001 Portfolio; 6,000 words; end of term 3 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Edward Podesta
Level - 7
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 7PGYL7T23

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