Contemporary Educational Perspectives
PostgraduateTAS-EDP5042025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Contemporary Educational Perspectives
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Critically analyse contemporary perspectives of learning
- Articulate your own learning and teaching philosophy, values and beliefs
- Create and theoretically justify a learning sequence for a group of adolescent or adult learners
- Apply professional and academic communication skills
- Module 1: Theories of Learning
- Learning theory, and our own beliefs about learning
- Reflective teaching
- Our learners and their leaning needs
- Individual differences
- Module 2: Psychological Perspectives of Learning
- Behaviourism
- Cognitivism, attention and perception
- Humanism
- Social learning
- Module 3: Strategies and Techniques for Teaching and Learning
- Teaching strategies
- Facilitating learning
- Planning for learning
- Assessment of learning
This subject introduces you to a range of theoretical approaches for facilitating learning, and relates these to contemporary educational practices. As a result of studying this subject, you will understand why contemporary education is focused on learning and understanding, rather than just educational delivery or training. This knowledge will help you to interpret a range of educational approaches, and appreciate the wider impact of education on both society and the individual. After reviewing various theories of learning and teaching, you will consider the implications for curriculum development, as well as the effect on educational structures. Enhanced knowledge of foundational and contemporary theories will help you to better define and express your philosophy of education, and appreciate both the impact of that philosophy on your teaching practices and the potential effect on students.
- Quiz (20%)
- Presentation: Perspectives on Learning (40%)
- Reflection on Teaching and Learning Philosophy and Practice (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-EDN-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Education
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: Weekly (online) reading textbook and set readings (4 hours) and weekly participation in discussion boards (1 hour). Lectures or equivalent (once only - 4 times) and zoom sessions (once only - 4 times).
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Education
PostgraduateTAS-EDN-GCE