In this unit students will critically engage with various theoretical views relating to curriculum and how assessment is positioned within these views. A focus of this unit will be upon what makes particular curricula and assessment approaches have educative value. Consequently the political and moral dimensions inherent in all curricula will be explored. This unit will promote the importance of developing the professional capacity of educators to make value judgments in terms of curriculum planning, action and evaluation. A key component to making such professional judgments is the capacity for engaging in philosophical aims and purposes of the curriculum and of assessment. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Ian Mitchell (On-campus, Clayton); Dr Ann Ryan (Gippsland)
Prerequisites: Undergraduate degree; enrolment in Grad. Dip. Ed; or by special permission
