|
Module Learning Outcome
|
Assessment Criteria
|
|
|
The student can:
|
|
Demonstrate an advanced appreciation of current educational ideology
|
Demonstrate an understanding of the various ideologies (e.g. neo-liberalism) which shape current education policy debates and discourse
|
|
Demonstrate an advanced appreciation of the current educational policy agenda
|
Critically engage with current educational trends, agendas and movements (e.g. academies, free schools, anti-terrorism legislation in education, marketization in higher education, affirmative in action in university admissions etc.) and their historical development.
|
|
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of current educational ideology
|
Expand on key concepts and theoretical frameworks that have influenced current educational ideologies and debates.
|
|
Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the current educational policy agenda
|
Expand on the key concepts and principles that underpin current educational policy agendas.
|
|
Apply knowledge and understanding of educational ideology that drives the current educational policy agenda to construct a debate focussing an issue
|
The ability to use the academic literature, theoretical frameworks encountered in the module and other sources to re-construct educational debates that focuses on specific issues, topics.
|
|
Use academic sources and other appropriate resources to inform a debating position
|
Demonstrate the ability to support a debate using a range of relevant and appropriate sources of information.
|
|
Demonstrate skills of handling and using different perspectives
|
Demonstrate the ability to use information from a range of perspectives in an informed and reasoned way, and also to recognise how the value of evidence/information is shaped by perspective.
|
|
Communicate effectively in writing.
|
Produce an academic essay that is clear, coherent, well-structured, and grammatically correct, with consistently and correctly formatted citations and a complete reference list.
|
