10613 (v.3) SMEC 706 - Constructivism


Area: Science and Mathematics Education Centre
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Other: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Develop in-depth understandings of constructivist theory and its application as a referent for teaching, learning and research. It explores social, radical and critical constructivism. The pedagogy of the unit is based on a constructivist perspective that promotes critical self-reflective thinking, and for online study, connected knowing. Available for online study via the Internet.
 
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Field of Education: 070300 Curriculum and Education Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 11 - Education
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y   Y    
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y     Y  
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External