EDF1069 - Global and cross-cultural understandings of education

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Overview

This unit is designed to enable you to gain an understanding of what education and teaching is within a global society. In particular, the unit will draw the attention to how the purpose and nature of education differ from place to place. The unit will examine frameworks that support cross cultural teaching and learning. The implications of global and cross cultural understandings on teaching strategies will be considered with a particular focus on how you can begin to respond to students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socio economic backgrounds within your own teaching.

Offerings

S1-01-PENINSULA-ON-CAMPUS

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Dr Niranjan Casinader

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Niranjan Casinader

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:

explain the different meanings of education globally

demonstrate how education has influenced your own life and that of your extended family over time

identify the different ways in which culture has and can affect the philosophy and delivery of education

describe frameworks that support cross cultural teaching and learning and how they could be used in practice

identify teaching strategies that are responsive to the needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds.

Assessment summary

Assessment Task 1:

Digital Presentation on educational change across family generations (2000 words equivalent, 50%)

Link to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs): 1.3, 3.5, 3.7, 4.5, 6.2, 7.3

Assessment Task 2:

Report: Embedding cross cultural practices within teaching (2000 words equivalent, 50%)

Link to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs): 1.3, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 4.5, 6.2, 7.3

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