Unit details [ESI]
Bases of Educational Decision
Enrolment code: ESI407
Offered: Ltn: summer-sch & sem 1
Unit description:
Educational curriculums at any level, are governed by high level aims and goals, and
those aims are laid down in various policy documents. In this unit, students address two
value questions: ‘What should the broad aims of schooling be?’ and ‘Who should decide
such aims?’. In preparation for rigorous treatment of these questions, some skills of
argumentation and criticism of arguments will be addressed.
Staff: Mr P Davson-Galle
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: 1 week summer school with pre-reading and post-assignment work in
sem 1
Assess: 2x1,500-word essays (20% ea), a 4,500-word essay (60%)
Recommend: Crittenden B, Thinking About Education: essays for discussion in teacher education,
Longman, 1996
Schrag F, Back to Basics: fundamental educational questions re-examined, Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Education Study
Enrolment code: ESI408
Offered: dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2,
Special note: (attendance not required)
Unit description:
In-service students work towards developing the skills of critical enquiry. The major aim
is to encourage the investigation of a significant curriculum issue and deepen
understanding through the cycle of documentation and reflection on teaching and
learning processes. The specific focus is the examination and interpretation of professional
practice in order to develop critical self reflective strategies. The curriculum issue is
negotiated with the unit coordinator and the individual student. The unit requires reading
and written assignments of approximately 6,000 words. The emphasis is placed on
independent enquiry and self-directed learning.
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Staff: Ms M Innes
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: optional study sessions
Assess: 4 inter-related, written assignments
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Mathematics and Education
Enrolment code: ESI414
Offered: dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2,
Unit description:
Provides an opportunity to explore a number of ideas about the nature of mathematics,
the way pupils learn mathematics and ways of teaching mathematics. The unit enables
students to reflect on the national statement and profiles and to consider such notions as
working numerately, assessment alternatives and constructivist classrooms. The unit it
designed to be practically based, with students strongly encouraged to test ideas and
innovations in the mathematics classroom and to explore topics of their own choice.
Specific topics covered are problem solving and reasoning; pen-and-paper computation
and mathematical understanding, writing in mathematics, and classroom based
assessment and assessment alternatives.
Staff: Ms K Beswick
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: assignments based on readings, and from reflection on activities tested with
children or in class
Recommend: Lists to be made available.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Health and Physical Education
Enrolment code: ESI419
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2
Unit description:
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Offers teachers an integrated program of study in the area of teaching health, physical
education or recreation. Teachers gain an awareness of the place of physical education in
the overall education of children. They apply the task analysis approach to devising skill
learning sequences and consider contemporary approaches to curriculum design and
program planning in health, physical education and recreation.
Staff: Mrs R Pryce-Jones
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: flexible delivery, some compulsory Saturday/Sunday study days.
Assess: task analysis assignment (30%), seminar presentation (30%), innovative program
(40%)
Required: Graham G, Holt/Hale S & Parker M, Children Moving: A Reflective Approach to
Teaching Physical Education, 3rd edn, Mayfield, 1993.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Music and Education
Enrolment code: ESI420
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Offers experienced general teachers an introduction to curriculum issues in music
education and an opportunity to explore the materials and processes of music. The unit is
designed to develop and extend students’ personal skills in music through a practical
program based on the music processes of composing, listening and playing/ singing.
Participants will also examine philosophical, sociological and psychological perspectives
of music in education.
Staff: Dr M Barrett
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: summer school 5 days (6 hrs), semester: 5x1-day weekend workshops
Required: tba
Recommend: tba
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 1 (Part 1)
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Unit details [ESI]
Enrolment code: ESI421
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI471.
Staff: Mr P Throssell
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 2 (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI422
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI472.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: ESI471
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 3 (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI423
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI473.
Staff: Ms M Inness
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: [E3B]
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Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 4 (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI424
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2,
Unit description:
Students complete a Practicum of 45 days. The Practicum is supervised by approved
senior teachers in schools and, where appropriate, senior educators in other institutions.
Staff: Mr R Wills
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 45 days practicum (15 days observation, 30 days small-group work)
Prereq: ESI471, ESI472, ESI473
Assess: a satisfactory report for the Practicum
Recommend: Britzman DP, Practice makes Practice A Critical Study of Learning to Teach,
State Univ of NY Press, Albany, NY, 1991
Brown S & McIntyre D, Making Sense of Teaching, Open Univ Press,
Buckingham, 1993
Hargreaves A & Fullan MG, Understanding Teacher Development, Cassell,
Lond, 1992
Russell T & Munby H, Teachers and Teaching, The Falmer Press, Lond, 1992
Van Manen M, The Tact of Teaching. The Meaning of Pedagogical Thoughtfulness, State Univ of
NY, Albany, NY, 1991.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introduction to Special Education
Enrolment code: ESI428
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Introduces the dimensions of the field traditionally defined as special education. The unit
examines the historical conceptions of the field and the rapid changes that have occurred
over the past decade. The concept of inclusive schooling is discussed and investigated in
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detail, as well as other key issues in the field such as transition education and early
intervention. Emphasis is placed on the development of school and classroom practice for
diverse students needs.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Required: Booth T & Ainscow M, From Them to Us: An International Study of Inclusion in
Education, Routledge, 1999
Clarke C, Dyson A & Millward, Theorising Special Education, Routledge, 1998
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Issues in Studies of Society and Environment
Enrolment code: ESI429
Offered: Ltn: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2 dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Unit description:
Students explore current issues in Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) and are
expected to think creatively and imaginatively about the implementation of SOSE in the
curriculum. Students are also expected to incorporate a vision of the future, to become
familiar with the aims and objectives for a global community and to strengthen, extend
and demonstrate knowledge of available resources, particularly in the Tasmanian context.
Staff: Dr M robertson
Unit weight: 25%
Recommend: An Atlas of the World
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Education Study (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI433
Offered: Hbt: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2, Ltn: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI408.
Staff: Ms M Innes
Unit weight: 12.5%
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Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Education Study (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI434
Offered: Hbt: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2, Ltn: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI408.
Staff: Ms M Innes
Unit weight: 12.5%
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Effective School Leadership
Enrolment code: ESI435
Offered: dist.ed: summer-sch
Unit description:
Is for those who already occupy, or expect to occupy positions of school leadership
responsibilities. Leadership is taken as an ongoing process of learning or quest that has at
its core the purposes of schooling and enlisting others in achieving these purposes.
Participants will not only examine and share their educational platforms but will also be
involved in an analysis of how a school and the people in it learn and develop as a group
or team and what can be done to assist this development.
Staff: Prof B Mulford and visiting scholars
Unit weight: 25%
Required: Mulford B, Shaping Tomorrow’s Schools, Aust. Council for Education
Administration Mongraph No 15, Melb, 1994
Mulford B, ‘Organisational learning and educational change’ in Hargreaves A, Lieberman
A, Fullan M & Hopkins D (eds), International Handbook of Organizational Change, Kluwer
Academic, Norwell MA, 1997.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
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Outdoor Education
Enrolment code: ESI438
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
On successful completion of this unit, students will possess the theoretical and practical
knowledge of instructional methods and outdoor education activities/programs. Students
should be able to demonstrate knowledge of a range of teaching and learning approaches
used to deliver education experiences in the outdoors safely.
Staff: Ms T Philpott
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: flexible delivery
Assess: presentation (30%), major assignment (40%), exam (30%)
Required: Priest S & Gass M, Effective Leadership in Adventure Programming, Human Kinetics,
USA, 1997
Recommend: Rohnke K, Silver Bullets
Rohnke K, Cowtails and Cobras
Rohnke K, QuickSilver
Hanhrahan S, Carlson TB, Gameskills: A Fun Approach to Learning Sports Skills, Human
Kinetics, USA, 2000
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Studies in Teaching
Enrolment code: ESI439
Offered: Ltn: may be taken in summer-sch OR winter-sch, dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Unit description:
Includes a study of a wide range of approaches to teaching and teaching styles, and a
consideration of what this means in relation to student learning, planning to teach,
monitoring student progress, assessing student achievement and evaluating effective
teaching and learning. Students are required to plan and evaluate teaching episodes and to
reflect critically on theories of teaching and learning.
Staff: Ms MH McGill
Unit weight: 25%
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Teaching pattern: flexible delivery; dist.ed students: lectures, workshops and study days
Assess: Written assignments: action research (40%), 2 essays (35%), seminar presentation
(25%); (note: dist.ed students complete another essay instead of a seminar presentation)
Required: Joyce B & Weil M, Models of Teaching, 2000, ISBN 0205310389
Wills G, Action Research, Prentice-Hall, 2000.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Art and Education
Enrolment code: ESI440
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Establishes a base from which teachers might identify, clarify and solve many of the
problems and ambiguities which are frequently associated with self-expression, creativity
and the arts. The unit is designed for those teachers who are involved in the teaching of
art, craft and design oriented subjects at all levels, and is open to infant, primary, special
school and secondary teachers. Particular emphasis is placed on curriculum development
together with basic guidelines for self-evaluation of classroom practices. Such analysis
should aid teachers to develop more meaningful course structures and teaching strategies.
Staff: Dr P Duncum
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: 2 major assignments (60%), minor papers (40%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Technology Studies
Enrolment code: ESI443
Offered: Ltn: sem 2 [by web]
Special note: available as a full-time unit
Unit description:
The unit consists of three modules, two of which must be completed.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: see individual modules
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Assess: see individual modules
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Technology Studies (1)
Module 1: Personal and Professional Use of Information
Technology in Education
Enrolment code: ESI443
Offered: Ltn: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2, NWC: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Special note: available as a full-time unit
Unit description:
Through this module, students should become personally familiar with the computer
platforms used in schools and the University, initiate and sustain electronic
communications, develop information retrieval and manipulation techniques, and locate
and review some digitised teaching resources.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr workshop weekly, plus 10 lectures; mid-semester competency
assessments may alter or reduce attendance requirements
Assess: continuous assessment in workshops and two practical tasks with as timed test
each se
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Technology Studies (2)
Module 2: Teaching and Learning with Information
Technology in Education
Enrolment code: ESI443
Offered: Ltn: sem 2 [by web]
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Special note: available as a full-time unit
Unit description:
Is designed to help students become familiar with current classroom use of information
technology, ensuring equity in all areas of the curriculum. Students encounter web-page
design, critical software evaluation, digital communications including video-conferencing,
LOGO and a range of curriculum software.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 hrs workshop weekly (6 wks)
Assess: essay (35%), competency demonstration (25%), critical evaluation and lesson plans
(40%)
Recommend: Roblyer MD & Eduardo J, Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, 2nd
edn, Merrill, NJ, 2000
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Technology Studies (3)
Module 3: Managing and Organising Information Technology
in Education
Enrolment code: ESI443
Offered: Ltn: summer-sch [by web]
Special note: available as a full-time unit
Unit description:
Students investigate approaches to pedagogy, infrastructure and planning in relation to
computers in a whole educational institution. They look at the implications for teaching
with IT, learning and assessment processes, strategic planning in the light of Moore’s Law,
and build up a basic server network.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: full-time one-week plus web-based tutorials
Assess: pedagogy: assess impact of IT in class (33%); infrastructure–server configuration
(33%); planning: draft a 1-year learning technologies plan for a school (34%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
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Early Childhood Education
Enrolment code: ESI444
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Examines current Early Childhood Education issues in the light of the students’
professional training and experience. The course of development in a child’s early years is
charted and linked to the provision of children’s services of all kinds. Current practices in
the education of young children is considered. The unit is organised to fit in with the usual
school holidays. The class meets for a two-hour workshop each week with students, under
the tutor’s guidance and supervision, choosing topics and taking responsibility for
presenting them to the group.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: 3-hr seminars weekly (March commencement) (20 wks)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 1 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI447
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI471.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 2 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI448
Offered: not offered in 2003
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Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI472.
Staff: Ms D Hamilton
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: ESI422
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 3 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI449
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Has the same objectives as ESI473.
Staff: Ms M Inness
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 4 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI450
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2,
Unit description:
As for ES1424 but (instead of a 45-day practicum) a 35-day practicum including a 25-day
internship.
Staff: Mr R Wills
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 35 days practicum (10 days small-group teaching, 25 days full-class
teaching)
Prereq: ESI471, ESI472, ESI473 and ESI424
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Assess: satisfactory report for the Practicum.
Recommend: Britzman DP, Practice makes Practice A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, State
Univ of NY Press, Albany, NY, 1991
Brown S & McIntyre D, Making Sense of Teaching, Open Univ Press, Buckingham, 1993
Hargreaves A & Fullan MG, Understanding Teacher Development, Cassell, Lond, 1992
Russell T & Munby H, Teachers and Teaching, The Falmer Press, Lond, 1992
Van Manen M, The Tact of Teaching. The Meaning of Pedagogical Thoughtfulness, State Univ of
NY, Albany, NY, 1991
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Drama in Education
Enrolment code: ESI453
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
For teachers and trainers in primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and TAFE
institutions. (Specific training in drama is not essential). Students explore a range of drama
strategies and adapt and experiment with these methods in their own classroom. The
theory of drama in education and the learning that is possible for students in a variety of
situations is also addressed.
Staff: Dr H Smigiel
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: 4–5 weekends during the year
Assess: Reading review (25%), curriculum development and project (50%), practical project
(25%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Topics in Science
Enrolment code: ESI454
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Please contact the Faculty of Education for details.
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Staff: Dr P Ferguson, Dr N Brown
Unit weight: 25%
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Studies in Classroom Management
Enrolment code: ESI455
Offered: Ltn: summer-sch
Unit description:
Classroom Management is designed to give those working in education both a theoretical
and practical understanding of how to promote positive behaviour in the classroom. The
unit provides an understanding of the purpose of misbehaviour and specific techniques to
intervene and crate a cooperative classroom. These techniques are applicable to children
from preschool to students in senior secondary school.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: summer school
Assess: tba
Required: Balson M, Understanding Classroom Behaviour, ACER, 1992
Lewis R, The Discipline Dilemma, ACER, 1997
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Research Investigation (In-Service)
Enrolment code: ESI457
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Enables students to pursue, in some depth and in a professional area of their own choice,
research which interests them and which they see as relevant to their future professional
roles. The main focus is to develop further students’ knowledge and skills in the research
process. Students develop, implement and
report on their individual research investigations. Group discussion and feedback plays
and important role in this process.
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Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: initial proposal and tutorial (20%), detailed research proposal (20%), workshop
presentation (20%), written report (40%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Special Study (Online Learning)
Enrolment code: ESI460
Offered: dist.ed: summer-sch
Unit description:
Students are exposed to the web-based course management system of WebCT and are able
to create their own online teaching environment. Students are encouraged to think beyond
classroom paradigms using sound online teaching and learning strategies, and student
and teacher administrative tools, student progress tracking, and student management
tools.
Staff: Mrs R Pryce-Jones
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 6 hrs (13 wks)
Assess: by negotiation
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Design & Context in Technology Education
Enrolment code: ESI461
Offered: dist.ed: summer-sch
Unit description:
The history and philosophy of modernism and postmodernism in Design and Technology
will be examined in this unit. An investigation of the social changes resulting from
advances in technology, consumerism and the ascent of industry will be investigated.
Staff: Mrs R Pryce-Jones
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 6 hrs (13 wks)
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Assess: by negotiation
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Special Topic (VET in Schools)
Enrolment code: ESI462
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Provides an overview of current policy and research into VET-in-schools. The session
provides participants with an opportunity to explore the challenges facing secondary
teachers and others involved with a VET in schools program. Those challenges include
managing the competing demands of two curriculum (VET/TCE) frameworks and
working with learners who themselves are trying to straddle two worlds: the world of
work and the world of school. Issues of the changing world of work confronting school
leavers and student adolescent identity will also be discussed.
Staff: Mrs R Pryce-Jones
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 6 hrs (13 wks)
Assess: by negotiation
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Educational Research Methods
Enrolment code: ESI464
Offered: Ltn: summer-sch
Unit description:
Overviews the methods currently used in educational research. Students explore research
approaches based on quantitative and qualitative research methods. Following a research
overview taught in face-to-face classes, students complete a series of assignments and
exercises.
Staff: Dr H Smigiel, Dr M Barrett
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: flexible delivery, three weekends Feb-March in sem 1
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Prereq: 3-yr teaching qualifications
Assess: class exercises, a seminar and a written assignment
Required: Burns RB, Introduction to Research Methods, Longman Cheshire, Melb, 1996
Jaeger R (ed), Complementary Methods for Research in Education, AERA, Washington DC,
1988.
Courses: [E4C]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Contemporary Issues in Education
Enrolment code: ESI465
Offered: Ltn: summer-sch
Unit description:
The content of this unit will be negotiated between the unit coordinator and the individual
student. It will require reading and written assignments of approximately 6,000 words. It
should incorporate content that represents the candidate’s particular area of professional
interest.
Staff: Prof J Williamson
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: flexible delivery
Assess: assignments which will be negotiated with individual students
Courses: [E4C]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Honours Dissertation
Enrolment code: ESI466
Offered: Ltn: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2 dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Unit description:
Students completing this unit successfully will have undertaken the following: the
development of an appropriate honours research proposal; the development of a
substantial literature review in the area of the dissertation topic; the planning and
execution of a research study; and the production of an appropriately written scholarly
dissertation. Students work with the honours coordinator and their individual dissertation
supervisor to produce these outcomes.
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Staff: tba
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching pattern: flexible delivery
Prereq: Credit grade or better in ESI464
Assess: Honours dissertation of approx 15,000 words
Courses: [E4C]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Literature for Children
Enrolment code: ESI467
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
Unit description:
Students are given the opportunity to: develop critical awareness of children’s literature;
consider their own construction as consumers of textual productions; develop an
understanding of children’s social construction as literacy participants; engage with a
considerable variety of textual forms of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The unit considers
the nature of the reading process and the interrelation of reading with other modes of
language, particularly exploring the impact of literature as a means of intellectual
development.
Staff: Mr R Wills
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: internal students: 2-hr tutorial fortnightly; 2x2-day and 1x1-day study
schools
Assess: intenral students: a series of written assignments related to literature studies and to
the use of literature in the classroom; distance: workshop presentation; 2 assignments
Required: Brown A, Voices in the Park, DK Publ, NY, 1998
Fleischman P, Seedfolk, HarperCollins, NY, 1997
Thomas R, Slave Day, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1997
Walter V, Making Up Megaboy, DK Publ, NY, 1998
Wolff VE, Bat 6, Scholastic, NY, 1998
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Language and Education
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Enrolment code: ESI468
Offered: Hbt: summer-sch
Unit description:
Focuses on issues of language and literacy in learning. The unit is at the cutting edge of
current views of literacy theory anbd practice. It examines dominant literacy positions so
that educators are able to debate policy issues and to select methodologies to support
personal and professional views on the teaching of literacy and language. Innovative
approaches to pedagogy are developed.
Staff: Dr CJ Hiller
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: tba
Assess: a series of written assignments related to language, language in use and language
in classrooms
Required: Anstey M & Bull G, The Literacy Labyrinth, Prentice-Hall, 1996
Anstey M & Bull G, Reading the Visual, Hartcourt, 2000
Bull G & Anstey M, The Literarcy Lexicon, Prentice-Hall, 1996
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Social Science Special Topic (Civics and
Citizenship)
Enrolment code: ESI469
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Curriculum and teaching in the area of Studies of Society and Environment is at present
receiving national attention for its role and potential for citizenship education. This unit
will enable teachers to participate in innovations in this curriculum area. It will familiarise
teachers with the traditions of thought about civics and citizenship appropriate to the
Australian context, with a view to developing reflective understanding of how schools and
classrooms prepare students for Australian citizenship. Special attention is paid to
principles of teaching and learning, curriculum selection and classroom interactions which
can develop capacities and dispositions for citizenship. Delivery is in accordance with
adult learning styles and organised around three components: an initial summer school,
action research tasks, and review weekends spaced through the year in negotiation with
students.
Staff: tba
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Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: summer school, weekends throughout the year
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Gender Studies
Enrolment code: ESI470
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Focuses on and examines how difference, especially gender, but also age, socio-economic
status, sexuality, physical appearance, physical abilities and cultural identity are
constructed and reproduced in schools and classrooms. The unit explores how teachers
might challenge accepted norms. Innovative pedagogy is developed. See the two units
offered by the Women’s Studies Committee – HAF206/306 and HAF207/307. Each is
developed on two principles: (a) a recognition of the roles and contributions of women in
society and (b) the practical application to the classroom and the profession of this
learning.
Staff: (Coordinator) Dr CJ Hiller
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: tba
Assess: minor 1,000-word paper: students present one seminar (paper to be negotiated but
may focus on the topics outlined under language and literacy), major 3,000-word paper
Required: Rowan L, Write Me In, Peta, 2001
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 1
Enrolment code: ESI471
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Unit description:
Introduces the Principles and Practice of Teaching, addressing practical issues in the
planning, organising and interacting required for successful teaching in a variety of
contexts. Studies cover: classroom climate and interaction, and communication skills;
teaching skills (introductory procedures, questioning, explaining, reinforcing, motivating
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etc); strategies for effective teaching (grouping, individualising instruction, roles of pupil
and teacher, preparation and planning etc); classroom management and control; persons
with special education needs; evaluation, measurement, and assessment techniques
available to teachers.
Staff: Mr P Throssell
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: non-compulsory study days may be offered during both semesters,
subject to numbers
Assess: 4 written assignments (of approx 5,000 words)
Required: Marsh C, Handbook for Beginning Teachers, Longman, Melb
Barry K & King L, Beginning Teaching and Beyond, ISBN 1876033924
Recommend: Brookfield S, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,
1995
Tripp D, Critical Incidents in Teaching, Routledge, Lond, 1993.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 2
Enrolment code: ESI472
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Unit description:
Focuses on the development of the individual in the processes of learning and the ability
on the part of the teacher to anticipate, plan and deliver programs to meet the diverse
needs of learners.
Staff: Ms D Hamilton
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: non-compulsory study days may be offered during both semesters,
subject to numbers
Prereq: ESI471
Assess: 4 written assignments (approx 5,000 words)
Required: Brookfield S, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,
1995
Tripp D, Critical Incidents in Teaching, Routledge, Lond, 1993
McInerney DM & McInerney V, Educational Psychology: Constructing Learning, Prentice
Hall, Syd, 1994.
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Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introductory Educational Studies 3
Enrolment code: ESI473
Offered: dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2,
Unit description:
A study of Educational Issues and Principles which requires student to make clear the
educational principles on which they conduct their current work. Students are asked to
review these principles in a critical manner, acknowledging issues in the areas of value,
knowledge, opinion and understanding which are critical to the presentation and
development of the study programs for which they are professionally responsible as
teachers. Studies include: the competing concepts of education; indoctrination and
education; freedom, authority, responsibility and professional accountability; equality and
equality of opportunity; discipline and management of classroom and school (or other
learning situations); knowledge, values and the curriculum; grounds for planning and
sequencing individual and groups of curriculums; views of the human individual/
person; education and social selection; compensatory education; multi-culturalism; and
vocational education.
Staff: Ms M Inness
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: non-compulsory study days may be offered during both semesters,
subject to numbers
Prereq: ESI471, 472
Assess: 3 written assignments (approx 5,000 words)
Required: Hatton E (ed), Understanding Teaching Curriculum and the Social Context of
Schooling, Harcourt Brace, Syd, 1994
Huyvaert SH, Reports from the Classroom: Cases for Reflection, Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 1995
Tripp D, Critical Incidents in Teaching, Routledge, Lond, 1993.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
School and Classroom Based Curriculum
Development
Enrolment code: ESI475
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Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in summer-sch OR (fy) ie sem 1 & 2,
Unit description:
Introduces students to various theories and models in the field of curriculum design and
development and encourages the student to explore them critically in relation to their own
educational purposes and practices. The second part of the unit focuses on the application
of current theories and concepts to the review, design and /or development of specific
curriculums.
Staff: Ms D Hamilton
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: lectures, seminars and small-grp work
Assess: written assignments of 6,000 words at end of unit which applies theories and
concepts to practical curriculum design problems
Required: Smith DL & Lovat TJ, Curriculum: Action on Reflection, revised edn, Social Science
Press, Wentworth Falls NSW, 1991
Print M, Curriculum Design and Development, 2nd edn, Allen & Unwin, 1993
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Introduction to Counselling
Enrolment code: ESI477
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Introduces students to current theories of counselling and counselling models. Through
communication and basic counselling skill acquisition, the application of these are
explored. Content also includes aspects of human development and ethical issues in
counselling.
Staff: Ms A-M Lancaster
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: weekend workshops
Assess: case study, video tape analysis, journal work, group presentation
Required: Corey MS & Corey G, Becoming a Helper, 3rd edn. Brooks/Cole, 1998.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Special Study: Visual Literacy
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Enrolment code: ESI478
Offered: Ltn: winter-sch
Unit description:
Focuses on the use of visual texts as a site for teaching and learning in Key Learning Areas
English and the Arts: Drama. The unit explores the notion of ‘text’ as a resource for
meaning (Halliday, 1985); and a perspective that positions learning as a social process of
negotiating meanings through, within and about texts. The unit is interactive, involving
participants in innovative approaches to teaching about and through texts in the
classroom.
Staff: Dr H Smigiel and visiting lecturers
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: 2 weekends
Assess: practical seminar (50%), written assignment (50%)
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Technology Studies Part 1
Enrolment code: ESI480
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Through this unit, students should become familiar with computer platforms used in
schools and the University; initiate and sustain electronic communications; develop
information retrieval and manipulation techniques; and locate and review some digitised
teaching resources.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: graphics and DTP (25%), communications (25%), software reviews (25%) essay
(25%)
Required: http//www.educ.utas.edu.au/~Andrew.Fluck/IT/PersProf
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Technology Studies Part 2
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Enrolment code: ESI481
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Is designed to help students become familiar with current classroom use of information
technology, ensuring equity in all areas of the curriculum. Students encounter web-page
design, critical software evaluation, digital communications including video-conferencing,
LOGO and a range of curriculum software.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: essay (35%), competency demonstration (25%), critical evaluation and lesson plans
(40%)
Required: http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/~Andrew.Fluck/IT/TchLearn
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Special Study (Literacy)
Enrolment code: ESI487
Offered: Ltn: summer-sch
Unit description:
Develops students’ understanding of language and literacy theories with a focus on their
practical application in the classroom. From these understandings students learn to apply
their knowledge to the planning, implementation and assessment of appropriate
sequences of literacy education.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Special Study (Music Composition and Technology
in the Classroom)
Enrolment code: ESI488
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
Unit description:
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Is designed to develop students’ understanding of composition and improvisation
strategies appropriate for the K–12 classroom setting and relevant technology applications.
The unit addressed the role and function of composition and improvisation in the musical
learning of students K–12 and implications of technology on the creative process. Students
also develop their knowledge and understanding of the ways in which composition and
improvisation are addressed in international, national and state curriculum frameworks
and syllabuses.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Special Study (Models in Teaching)
Enrolment code: ESI490
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
Explores various approaches to teaching by examining a range of models. The unit raises
the awareness of the variety of ways available to teachers for achieving appropriate
learning outcomes. At the end of this unit, students are able to describe, discuss and reflect
on the application of a variety of approaches to teaching and to match the relevance of
appropriate approaches to particular learning goals.
Unit weight: 25%
Required: Joyce & Weil, Models of Teaching.
Courses: [E3B]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
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