EDU461: Connecting to Students' Lives

This unit provides opportunities for teachers to engage young people in schooling through a curriculum that connects with their lifeworlds and/or the concerns of the communities in which they live. The unit examines some different ways of generating knowledge with students including place-based education, service learning, citizenship education, local literacies and students as researchers. The unit provides teachers with an opportunity to plan a school based research project that pursues the idea of 'community as curricula'.

Related Unit Codes:

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S1-external
Contact Time	External: No attendance required. On-campus workshops will be available at Rockingham campus.
Prerequisites	Enrolment in a School of Education degree or permission of the Unit Coordinator. Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.
School	School of Education
Unit Coordinator	Professor Barry Down Position: Chair in Education E-mail: b.down@murdoch.edu.au Location: Rockingham Campus Engineering (South) Room 1.018 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 7020
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Professor Barry Down Chair in Education (b.down@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 7020 Rockingham Campus Engineering (South) Room 1.018 MURDOCH S1: External (15/02/2010 - 11/06/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)