Big Ideas in Education: Inclusion, equalities, rights and justice
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| EDUC1018 | Education | 1 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- EDUC1018
- School
- Education
- Level
- 1
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module offers an introduction to major forms of injustice in education, explores approaches to challenging inequality, exclusion and oppression in and through education, and examines how social scientists studying these issues in diverse times, places and learning contexts. By participating in a variety of activities such as seminars, lectures and workshops, students will develop skills for analysing complex information from diverse perspectives, connecting academic knowledge with personal experience and everyday practice, and expressing their ideas creatively.
Target Students
This is a compulsory module on the BA (Hons) Education programme and is also available to all undergraduate students and all exchange students.
Classes
This module is taught through a combination of seminars and lectures.
Assessment
- 30% Coursework 1: 3 x 500-words or equivalent
- 10% Coursework 2: 750 words
- 60% Coursework 3: 1,500 words or 10-minute presentation or equivalent
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
The module aims to: introduce key concepts and social theories of the relationship between education and social justice, particularly major frameworks of ‘equality’, ‘inclusion’, ‘rights’ and ‘justice’; explore how different understandings of the relationship between education and social justice shape individual and group experience, identity and social relationships, educational practice, educational policies and learning systems; and enable students to evaluate complex information about education and social justice from multiple perspectives, make connections between academic knowledge and personal practice, and express their ideas creatively.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Students should demonstrate a critical understanding of:
• the underlying values, theories and concepts relevant to inclusion, equalities, rights and justice in education
• the diversity of learners and the complexities of the education process individually and across systems
Intellectual Skills
Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to:
• analyse educational concepts, theories and issues related to policy around inclusion, equalities rights and justice in a systematic way
Professional Practical Skills
Students will be able to demonstrate that they can:
• use research skills appropriate to the discipline of education: quantitative, qualitative and library based, written and oral communication, and textual analysis
Transferable Skills
Students should be able to:
• organise and articulate opinions and arguments in speech and writing using relevant specialist vocabulary
• process and synthesise empirical and theoretical data, to create new syntheses and to present and justify a chosen position on the themes of inclusion, equalities, rights and justice, having drawn on relevant theoretical perspectives