Not available in 2014
Previously offered in 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Examines such topics as space and architecture, the organisation of time, documents and artefacts of schooling, school regulations and rituals, classroom practices, and the effects of power on both teachers and students. Students will have the opportunity to apply key concepts of the topic, such as techniques of power, the circulation of power, and power's productiveness, to their own work or educational contexts.
| Objectives | This subjects aims to: 1. extend students' understanding of power, including the effects of power, as it operates in schools and other educational settings; 2. challenge students to develop sophisticated yet systematic analyses of power's operation in their own educational contexts; 3. provide students with conceptual and practical tools for altering current power relations in schooling. |
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| Content | Drawing on contemporary research and theories of schooling, this subject pays particular attention to the ways in which power is enacted on the "micro" level, in daily practices. Commencing from an analysis of similarities between schooling institutions and other institutions, the subject examines such topics as space and architecture, the organisation of time, documents and artefacts of schooling, school regulations and rituals, classroom practices, and the effects of power on both teachers and students. Students will have the opportunity to apply key concepts of the subject, such as techniques of power, the circulation of power, and power's productiveness, to their own work or educational contexts. | ||
| Replacing Course(s) | NA | ||
| Transition | NA | ||
| Industrial Experience | 0 | ||
| Assumed Knowledge | Nil | ||
| Modes of Delivery | Distance Learning : Paper Based Internal Mode |
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| Teaching Methods | Email Discussion Group
Self Directed Learning Student Projects |
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| Contact Hours | Self Directed Learning: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term |