9445 (v.9) Ed 408 - Policy Studies in Australian Education

Area:

Department of Education

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. **

Lecture:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Designed to enable students to become well informed and critical observers of current policy developments in Australian education. While it will deal mainly with the current scene, it also aims to survey aspects of Australia's history of education policy-making as a necessary base to understanding the present. The major topics are the policy environment 1980 onwards, colonial legacies, the overhaul of State education in Australia 1890-1914 and education and the welfare state.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

070300 Curriculum and Education Studies (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

11 - Education

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not 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
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2				Y
2007	Esperance Community College	Semester 1	Y
2007	Northam Campus	Semester 2	Y
2007	Geraldton University Centre	Semester 1	Y
2007	Geraldton University Centre	Semester 2	Y
2007	Pilbara TAFE Karratha	Semester 1	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