EDF1069 · Cross-cultural understandings of education

Overview

This unit is designed to deepen your understanding of how culture influences education and teaching practices. Throughout the unit, you will explore various frameworks that support cross-cultural teaching and learning. You will critically examine the impact of cultural understandings on teaching strategies, considering the diverse linguistic, cultural, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds of students. You will begin to develop the knowledge and skills needed to effectively respond to the needs of students from a wide range of backgrounds, fostering inclusive and culturally responsive teaching practices.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. explain different understandings of the purpose and value of education
2. demonstrate how education has influenced your own life and that of your extended family over time, through engagement in critical self-inquiry for both academic writing and as a core mechanism of effective ongoing professional teaching practice
3. identify the different ways in which culture has and can affect the philosophy and delivery of education through an appreciation of the cultural diversity within classrooms and communities in Australia
4. describe frameworks that support cross cultural teaching and learning and how they could be used in practice
5. identify teaching strategies that are responsive to the needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.