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Description
This module aims to challenge and enhance participants' knowledge and understanding of international debates and research central to education involving children aged 4-12. The module features input from key researchers innovating developments in practice and theory, and reviews current research that is crucial to understanding and working in the sector. The curriculum and its management, as well as the impact of context on children's progress, will be considered. The module is highly participatory, with structured activities and developmental tasks designed to accompany input from lecturers. Participants will be encouraged to develop their own interests in particular aspects of enquiry into educating children aged 4-12, to reflect upon and share their experiences of practice and to develop an awareness of recent research and developments within schools and communities.
Content: Participants will develop an understanding of the factors that influence current debates and trends in education with young children and will be encouraged to reflect upon the implications for their further professional practice. Sessions will examine research from different countries and contexts into new thinking and initiatives related, for example, to: professional identity, inclusion, equity and achievement, assessment and standards, children's mental health and wellbeing and cross-cultural perspectives on pedagogy. Implications for teaching and learning in the primary sector will be considered.
Teaching Delivery: This module is taught via 7 lectures.
Indicative Topics:
- Shaping the Curriculum and How it Shapes Pupils鈥� Learning
- 鈥楧oes the Working Class Matter - Reality or Rhetoric?鈥�
- Neoliberalism, 鈥楪ERM鈥� and the education of young children
(Based on module content in 22/23 and subject to change)
Module Aims:
The aims of this module are to help students:
- Engage with global debates and research concerning the education of children aged 4-12.
- Develop an understanding of the dynamic relationship between theory, research and practice.
- Critically explore educational theory and research with an international perspective.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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