Education Beyond Borders

Code

EDUC2034

School

Education

Level

2

Credits

20

Semesters

Spring UK

Summary

This module explores education theory and policy debates beyond the UK. It has three main strands. First, it critically examines major accounts regarding the purpose of education as they are found in international policy, activist and academic debates. Second, it goes on to look at the increasingly transnational nature of education policymaking, examining prominent examples and major theories about how policies spread. Third, it draws attention to critiques of these globalising trends by looking at case studies of resistance examining arguments that education can be a public and private, ‘bad’ as well as ‘good' and considering debates about whose knowledge counts in national and international education policy debates.

What's in a name: international, comparative, global as strands of education research  

The purposes of education:  

Education as human capital  

Education as human right  

Education as human development  

The globalisation of educational policy  

PISA  

Education and the sustainable development goals  

Policy travel  

Critical perspectives on international education  

Resisting educational globalisation  

Education and violences  

Whose knowledge counts' 

Target Students

This module is 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

• 100% COURSEWORK: Equivalent to 4000 words.

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to:
•    the underlying values, theories and concepts relevant to education in international contexts
•    the complexity of the interaction between learning and local and global contexts, and the extent to which participants (including learners and teachers) can influence the learning process

Intellectual Skills
Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to:
    •   analyse educational concepts, theories and issues of policy within the context of 
    international education policy and debate a systematic way
    •   accommodate new principles and understandings, recognising connections and 
    discontinuities 

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 (key) skills
Students should be able to:
    •   organise and articulate opinions and arguments in speech and writing using 
    relevant specialist vocabulary

Conveners

• Professor Juliet Thondhlana
• Dr Tingting Yuan