This unit builds on understandings gained in EDUC106. It provides students with a critical understanding of the importance of education in contemporary society. It examines the policy context of education and the ways in which policy is socially constructed. It analyses the importance of policy in the teaching profession and classroom pedagogy, and in the context of a constantly modernising and globalising society. The impact of the markets on symbolic economy of educational institutions (prospectuses, web sites, advertising) is also analysed. Also analysed are the everyday cultures of schooling. A particular focus of this analysis is the spatial and temporal practices of schools, as... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Colin Symes
Prerequisites: EDUC106(P) or (admission to GDipEd or BEd(Prim))
