Transcript of 7806 eps1002l2a
- 1. Module Two
- What are the educational issues facing Australian education in
a global society?
- 2. This module aims to:
- explore issues currently impacting on Australian education
- understand the research-practice nexus
- identify a topic for further investigation in your
assignment
- extend your information literacy skills
- 3. A Globalised World
- A world characterised by accelerated international flows of
goods, capital, labour, services, and information that have
occurred in response to improved transport, the seemingly limitless
revolution in communications technologies, and the deregulatory
policies adopted in many countries during the past two decades
(Green, 1999, p. 57)
- 4. Dimensions of Globalisation
- global-national-local; the role of the citizen
- standardisation & fragmentation ; cultural homogeneity
& cultural heterogeneity
- (Appadurai, 1996 ; Burbules & Torres, 2000; Rizvi, 2000;
Smelser, 2003)
- 5. Reflecting on Globalisation and Education
- Consider each of the three dimensions of globalisation.
- What evidence have you seen of each dimension in educational
contexts?
- Identify examples that have had a positive/negative
impact.
- Outline your position on the relationship between globalisation
and education.
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- 7. Australian Education in a Globalised World
- Culturally diverse classrooms
- Teachers professional identities
- 8. A New Statement on Australian Schooling
- The quality of teaching and school leadership
- School retention and transitions from school
- (Council for the Australian Federation Review Steering
Committee, 2007)
- 9. Research can help us to meet these challenges by:
- improving teaching & learning
- strengthening professional knowledge
- developing skills to enhance teaching practice
- leading to more successful student outcomes
- 10. Teachers use research and evidence for the overarching
purpose of improving teaching and learning (Meiers, 2007, p. 50)
- Impact on teacher professional learning
- Changes in teaching practices
- Changes in student learning outcomes
- 11. Defining Real Research
- reflection: thinking about what you are doing
- thinking differently about educational problems
- conversations with colleagues
- teacher interests v researcher interests
- questions of prestige & status
- 12. The research-practice gap
- 13. Engaging with Research
- Confront the research-practice gap by
- respect for the classroom
- giving support in their room with their kids
- create a culture of professional learning: a collective
activity
- positioning teachers as experts and learners
- 14. Reflecting on Teaching & Teachers professional learning
- Is teaching a private and personal activity OR
- Is teaching a professional activity that can be continuously
improved if it is made public and examined openly?
- 15. Questions for Professional Learning
- What should be the purposes of schooling?
- How should it be achieved?
- Who should schooling benefit?
- What should schooling deliver?
- 16. Identifying a Research Issue
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- What makes your eyes light up i.e. what are you passionate
about?
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- Does it make a difference i.e. is it worth your while to spend
time investigating this issue?
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- Is it a brick or a wall (not a brick but a line of bricks) i.e.
will your investigation result in an outcome?
- 17. Strategies to help you in your investigation
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- CONGREGATE with birds of a feather i.e. use the Wiki.
- 18. Tools to help our research
- 19. MODULE TWO ACTIVITY
- Read the set readings and study notes
- Consider your answer to Question 5 in the Module ONE
activity
- Complete the answers to the following three questions:
- 1. What do I know about Australian education already?
- 2. What do I want or need to know?
- 3. How will I go about finding out?
- Post your answers in the course Wiki. Your answers to these
questions will be the starting point for work in Module 3.
- 20. At the end of this module, you should have:
- Read the set readings and study notes
- Completed the activities for self-reflection
- Identified a topic for further investigation in your
assignment.
- Posted your answers to the three questions in the Module 2
Activity on the course Wiki.
- Entered your Introduction and completed Module 1 Activity 1 on
the Course Wiki if you have not already done so.
- Completed your answers to the Module 1 Activity 2
- Extended your knowledge of the library databases
- Become familiar with the Endnote software program
- 21. endnote
- 5pm room 2:25 in the library
- We will explore endnote and you will begin your own endnote
library.
- Bring at least one reference with you so you can begin your own
endnote library
- 22. EnglishHELP