Students will be expected to consider further the potential for new approaches to teaching and learning that ICT makes possible and to relate this to current theories of learning and motivation. There will be an opportunity to extend the students range of ICT skills to include the design, creation and critical evaluation of an interactive learning resource using a multi-media authoring package. This module is co-taught by tutors from Keele and from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. The tutorial group will comprise students from Keele and Bowling Green. By the end of the module, students should have developed an understanding of basic similarities and differences between educational systems.
Primary education is compulsory for all children.
The development of curriculum entitlement, and the changing nature of this entitlement, is considered from a variety of perspectives. The changing roles, responsibilities and status of government and of teachers are examined. This module provides a critical examination of contemporary issues in education and work. In undertaking this examination, the module draws on theoretical models of identity in order to emphasise the links between the way we act in and experience the world, and how these actions come to inform our sense of self. Issues and debates explored in the module include gender, globalisation, new technology, marketisation, new patterns of work and changing cultures of education.