MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education

The course unit will introduce the following content areas:

• Major schools of thought and teaching and learning theory
• Applying learning theories in different social and cultural contexts
• Assessing learning
• Teacher and learner identities and learning theory
• Conceptions of children and young people in learning theory
• Education policy, teaching and learning theory and globalisation

EDUC77501 DTCE DL Conditions (Programme 05872 & 07737)

This unit aims to develop students' knowledge and understanding of teaching and learning theories and to reflect upon their application in different contexts. 

• An understanding of major schools of thought on learning theory
• An understanding of key ideas underpinning theories of teaching and learning
• An understanding of educational practices as they have developed in the context of educational institutions, education policy and in different social and cultural contexts

• Critical thinking in relation to teaching and learning theory and its potential application to different learning contexts
• Critically examine theoretical perspectives on teaching and learning theory and the assessment of learning
• Critically examine the implications of teaching and learning theories for young people and teachers in different social and cultural learning contexts

• Effectively contribute to debates about teaching and learning and learning in different insitutional, policy and socio-cultural contexts
• Examine educational practices in the light of emerging understandings of teaching and learning theory
• Examine the implications of teaching, learning and assessment policies, strategies, frameworks and discourses for classroom practice

• Conceptual and analytical skills
• Information handling 
• Group working

Feedback is available via Blackboard

    

Bruner, J. S. (1961) The act of discovery, Harvard Educational Review 31 (1), 21–32. 

Fox, R. (2005) Teaching and Learning: Lessons from Psychology, Oxford, Blackwell.

Overholser, J. C. (1993). "Elements of the Socratic method: II. Inductive reasoning". Psychotherapy, 30, 75–85.

Piaget, Jean. (1950) The Psychology of Intelligence. New York: Routledge

Pollard, A. (Ed) (2014) Readings for Reflective Teaching (Second Edition), London, Continuum.

     Reay, D. and William, D. (1999) `I’ll be a nothing’ : structure, agency and the construction of

     identity through assessment, British Educational Research Journal, 25 (3), 343-354.

Rizvi, F. and Lingard, B. (2010) Globalizing Education Policy, Oxford, Routledge.

Skinner, B.F. (1953) Science and Human Behavior, BFSkinner.org.

Tobin, J., Hsueh, Y., Karasawa, M. (2009) Pre School in Three Cultures: Revisited, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher mental processes, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Activity	Hours Allocated
Staff/Student Contact	24
Tutorials	6
Private Study	50
Directed Reading	30
Assignment Preparation	40
Total Hours	150