Contemporary Education Issues, Problems and Policies

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key issues and debates in contemporary education
• Examine the application of key concepts and approaches in the sociology of education to specific policy initiatives in education
• Conduct a relevant review and research on a chosen topic for assignment purposes
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of inequalities in education and key theoretical perspectives
• • Develop awareness of key developments in higher education, health and environmental education and STEM education.
• Use your knowledge and understanding to examine the different perspectives in relation to inequalities in education

• An introduction to key issues in education, including the aims and purposes of the education system;
• An overview of key policy developments over the past half a century, the basis for these policies and their impacts on very recent policy developments;
• An exploration of key issues around equality and life chances and the role played by social, class, gender and ethnicity;
• An introduction to changes in post-compulsory and higher education, including their expansion;
• An introduction to key developments in environmental, health, disaster and STEM education.

You will attend a range of lectures and tutorials and conduct directed reading and suggested additional research. The group tutorials will be based on discussions and presentations, as well as independent reading and research on related topic areas. Tutorials will also involve you in debates stimulated by a range of current print and on-line media coverage. You will be encouraged to develop and defend a position on a range of topical educational issues.

Typically, this module is taught through lectures with and group tutorials that follow the lectures.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.