2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC2101 International Perspectives of Pedagogy and Practice

20 creditsClass Size: 100

Module manager: Dr Michael Waring
Email: M.J.Waring@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

Module replaces

EDUC 3804 International Perspectives on Educare

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module draws on ideas about childhood and child development to construct a conceptual framework that will be used to analyse examples of teaching and learning practices from across the world. You will be introduced to the idea of curriculum as a mixture of content, pedagogy and assessment practices. The module will provide an opportunity for students to develop and articulate critical insights into the organisation, policies, practices, and outcomes of prevailing educational systems across diverse international contexts. You will be introduced to a range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks required to be able to coherently appreciate, articulate, and analyse the international dimensions and elements of education as a global phenomenon. Drawing upon published scholarship and policy texts you will consider why specific curriculum practices have developed in different countries and regions of the world at particular times. Contemporary educational issues and initiatives common or peculiar to countries at different levels of socio-economic development will be critically examined to illuminate how and why broader political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological factors may create a variety of changes, challenges, and opportunities in relation to curriculum, pedagogy, and learning practices across different educational settings. There will be a particular emphasis on research studies that examine the quality and adequacy of the learning experiences that children and young people encounter within specific international curriculum settings and the nature of educational outcomes that they achieve. The module will enable you to investigate the influence of cultural-historical, political and socio-economic factors on approaches to pedagogy and practice from a distinctively international and comparative perspective. Sessions will involve lectures to introduce key ideas and a range of practical activities to develop comparative and textual research skills.

Objectives

The aim of this module is to introduce students to:

- Research-informed comparisons of teaching and learning across a range of contrasting countries and contexts.
- Rationales for different international approaches to education and the historical, political, social, cultural values manifested in the nature of the provision offered.
- Critical research evidence about the effects of different types of educational provision in different countries.
- The relationship between educational philosophies, pedagogy and practice.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Undertake independent and research-informed comparisons of teaching and learning across a range of contrasting countries and contexts.
- Identify the rationale for different international approaches to education and the historical, political, social, cultural values manifested in the nature of the provision offered.
- Review critically research evidence about the effects of different types of educational provision in different countries.
- Explain the relationship between educational philosophies, pedagogy and practice.

Skills outcomes
Students will develop the ability to make research-informed comparisons of international education philosophy, policy, practice.

Syllabus

Indicative content:
- Constructing a critical framework for comparing international approaches to teaching and learning
- Educational philosophy, policy and practice
- Play and learning at home and at school
- Getting a ‘Head Start’: Tackling disadvantage
- Primary Schools: Pedagogy in Practice.
- Curriculum Matters
- Rural and Urban contexts
- Education Otherwise
- Innovative pedagogies

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Group learning	4	1.00	4.00
Lecture	11	2.00	22.00
Seminar	4	1.00	4.00
Private study hours			170.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Tasks will be set on the VLE to complement lectures.
Set readings will be set to complement lectures and will be discussed in VLE seminars, resulting in regular verbal presentations and poster presentations to ensure students’ develop their skills of expression in these two forms (which are the forms of assessment) throughout the module.
Assignment preparation will involve extensive wider reading and group project activity.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored via their online engagement with discussion forums and via their contribution to seminar discussions.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Comparative case study 3000 words	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 12/09/2023

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