Place, mobility and space in education

Code

EDUC3042

School

Education

Level

3

Credits

10

Semesters

Spring UK

Summary

The module explores how relationships to places, built spaces, and geographical movements between places structure educational experience. Fundamental questions about how education systems are geographically organised, what is meant by terms such as ‘local’, and how educational buildings are and have been designed, form the basis of the module content. The module will draw on students’ prior study of issues of social justice, power and marginalisation, and will explore how educational inequalities can be understood in spatial terms. Students will engage critically with contemporary theory from social and human geography, as well as with current educational research, to develop awareness of how their own and others’ experiences of education are located within particular geographies. The module will include analysis of education policy as well as case studies and research findings from a variety of international contexts.

Target Students

This is a module on the BA Education programme and is open to all Year 2 (Part I) or Year 3 (Part II) Undergraduate students or Exchange students.

Classes

This module is taught through a series of seminars.

Assessment

• 100% Coursework: 2,000 words or equivalent.

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding 
Students should demonstrate a critical understanding of:

•    The underlying values, theories and concepts relevant to education 
•    The societal and organisational structures and purposes of educational systems, and the possible implications for learners and the learning process. 
 

Intellectual Skills 
Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to:

•    Analyse educational concepts, theories and issues of policy in 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 and educational assessment: quantitative and library based, written and oral communication, and textual analysis

Transferable (key) skills
Students should be able to:

•    Process and synthesise empirical and theoretical data, to create new syntheses and to present and justify critiques of educational assessment having drawn on relevant theoretical perspectives

Conveners

• Dr Francesca Salvi
• Dr Tingting Yuan