Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Education

Learning Methods

Workshop

Module Offerings

8004EDDOC-SEP-MTP

Aims

To examine the theoretical and policy landscape of education.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Theories of learning and education. The impact of theory on educational policy and practice. The social, cultural and organisational context of education. The learning environment. Learning infrastructure and technology. Policy setting and policy enactment. Policy migration - the relationships between international and national factors that shape practice.
Module Overview:
The final taught module explores the contentious and challenging impact on practice of educational thinking, theory and policy. You will focus on how this plays out in your own area of professional practice, allowing you to deconstruct the various forces that shape education in its broadest sense.
Additional Information:This module explores the contentious and challenging impact on practice of educational thinking, theory and policy. Students will focus on how this plays out in their own area of professional practice. This will allow them to deconstruct the various forces that shape education in its broadest sense, as well as reflect on their own role in the development of theory, practice and or policy.

Assessments

Essay