Knowing and Learning

Subjects

• Learning and the Digital Generations

  Subject code: EDUC10056
  Level: 1

  Deepen your understanding of the potential for digital communication to enhance learning and produce new knowledge, and discuss how digital communications open up new opportunities for learning in both formal (e.g. schools) and informal (e.g. leisure) settings, challenging traditional ideas about where and how young people learn.

  Through interactive workshops, you will engage with a wide range of resources, both text and digital, to open up your understanding of ways in which digital communications blur the boundary between teacher and learner, producers and consumers of knowledge.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Understanding Knowing and Learning

  Subject code: EDUC10050
  Level: 1

  Connect theory with practice and enhance your understanding of how knowing and learning works to support your own learning and that of others.

  Alongside your lectures and seminars, you will join a homework club and tutor children and young people who need your assistance to improve their school work, automatically putting theory about learning to the test.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Knowledge, Learning and Culture

  Subject code: EDUC20065
  Level: 2

  Engage with amazing collections of art works, rare books and prints and archaeological, scientific, medical and archival material through tutorials held in a range of the University’s cultural collections and museums.

  You will explore the significance of culture and context in the development and transmission of knowledge, and in approaches to learning.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Literacy, Power and Learning

  Subject code: EDUC20081
  Level: 2

  Explore the nexus between literacy, power and learning through a study of ways in which literacy education can empower individuals and groups and facilitate positive social change.

  You will gain an understanding of the concept of multiple literacies in contemporary education and cultures, and analyse a range of contemporary and historical text types including written, visual, oral and digital media.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• Expertise and Your Professional Career

  Gain insights into professional knowledge, learning and expertise that will enhance your development in your chosen profession. Explore meta-frameworks for learning in all professions by distinguishing between different forms of knowledge, the relationships these have to practice across a broad array of fields, and the implications this has for learning. You will focus on the structures of knowledge and the way knowledge is produced in professions generally, rather than the content of knowledge in specific professions.

  For more information see the Handbook.

• School Experience as Breadth

  Subject code: EDUC20080
  Level: 2

  Volunteer as a Tertiary Student Assistant (TSA) in a Victorian Government school, and learn about contemporary approaches to teaching and learning.

  You will make links between your undergraduate degree and the wider community, and get a taste of working in a school by assisting in one of the two main streams:

  1. Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
  2. Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM)

  School-based experience is supplemented by university workshops and seminars, to give you further support and ideas you can take back to the classroom. This subject is for students with high level skills in mathematics, science, arts or languages other than English (LOTE).

  For more information see the Handbook.

  School Experience as Breadth was definitely the most insightful breadth subject I undertook throughout my Bachelor of Arts. The practical nature of the school placements was a great way to gain a real appreciation of what teaching involves. It also reinforced my interest in teaching and is helping me consider my next step post-Arts, which I believe is the outcome of a true breadth subject.