EED324 Schools Facilitating Adolescence Advocacy and Agency (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Education Studies (EDSTD)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject investigates and analyses the strategies and skills that constitute effective pedagogy for adolescents. Special attention will be afforded to the physical and emotional factors that contribute to the adolescent's formation of self and the significant role of 'mentoring' in this ongoing discovery. This subject is essentially concerned with developing understandings of how to assist adolescents find and recognise 'pathways' they will will travel and have travelled. Attention will be given to the personal, social and cultural elements that regulate and contribute to a sense of agency. Agency will be considered to be the force for advocacy - that is, as middle years educators, students will acquire the philosophical orientations and practical skills that will allow them to model advocacy and encourage their students to be advocates of what is just and meaningful to them and their lives.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2013.Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details prior to contacting their course coordinator: EED324
Where differences exist between the handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Prerequisite(s):
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- develop critical self reflection skills and ongoing personal development;
- critique models of learning and current educational theory concerning middle schooling;
- appreciate the value of inclusive Aboriginal people and their culture;
- investigate and analyse strategies and skills that constitute effective pedagogy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous adolescents;
- examine the pedagogical implications of mentoring;
- model advocacy;
- engage and apply emergent teaching and learning technologies.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- tolerance, patience and perseverance; - mentoring; - emergent teaching and learning technologies; - caring for adolescents; - consistency and what it means to adolescents; - models of effective pedagogy; - appropriate pedagogy for teaching Indigenous students; - advocacy and action; - lifelong learning and personal development.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.