Unit name | Learning |
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Unit code | EDUCD0094 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | D/8 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Dr. Reed |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Understanding Educational Research |
Co-requisites |
Research Methods in Learning, Leadership & Policy |
School/department | School of Education |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
The unit will centre on developing understanding of the process of learning within a range of educational settings. The focus will be predominantly on socio-cultural perspectives of learning and how these relate to wider theoretical perspectives. The unit will allow participants to critically examine the relationship between teaching, learning and assessment within a range of educational settings as well as considering the two-way knowledge exchange between informal and formal learning. The substantive areas covered will include learning as mediated action, learning with new technologies and learning within institutional settings.
Aims:
The unit is designed to be student-focused with an emphasis on active and experiential learning. Students will be encouraged and supported to reflect on and discuss the key ideas and issues raised by the unit in a variety of ways, using their own experience of teaching and learning to ground theoretical concepts.
Teaching and learning opportunities will include presentations, seminars, small-group work, independent inquiry and pair-work. Participants will be expected to take part in discussions, make presentations to the group and engage fully in activities. We will use the library as an inquiry space. The teaching room will be a site for seminars, group-work, discussion and presentation.
See pre-reading activities at the end of this programme for required preparation before the unit. There is an expectation that work will be undertaken in the evenings between taught sessions.
The unit is assessed by means of a 4,000 word written assignment that is designed to consolidate and extend learning. You should use the pre-readings and further readings from the unit and draw on the texts given in the reading list.