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EDUC 765 - Critical Inquiries in Educational Settings

  • Course description

    30 points

    Research in critical studies of education is vibrant and wide-ranging. This course focuses on an education topic of pressing political and social concern. Students will have opportunities to engage in small research projects through a range of theoretical and/or disciplinary approaches, using a student cohort plus academic supervisor model.


    Course director
    Frances Kelly


  • Course overview

    What does it mean to be an educator in dangerous times?
    Who or what is at risk in educational settings in dangerous times?
    What is at stake in education and can we hold to the democratic promises of education systems in late capitalism?

    This course explores these pressing educational issues and their links to wider societal contexts by drawing on critical and theoretical perspectives from history, philosophy and higher education. Learn how to do research and be a researcher to affect change by investigating political and social issues through your own supervised research inquiry.

  • Learning outcomes

    The learning outcomes for this course will be collaboratively determined by students and teaching staff.

    • Delivery modes

      Weekly Lecture

    • Currently scheduled classes

      2018 Epsom (Semester 2): Weekly Tuesdays from 4:30 to 7:30pm

    • Take this course

      This course can be taken as a taught course in the following programmes:

    • Ministry of Education course subsidies

      Primary and Intermediate teachers may be eligible for a Ministry of Education fees subsidy for this course. Click here for more information.

    • Recommended courses to take with this one

      Recommended courses and research methods courses to take with this course in the Postgraduate Certificate in Education or Master of Education 180pt

      Course code Course name Semester/Campus
      EDPROFST 754 Critical Research Methodologies in Education 2018 Epsom (Summer School)
      2018 Epsom (Semester 2)
      EDUC 758 Winners and Losers? Social Theories of Education 2018 Epsom (Semester 1)

    • School

      Critical Studies in Education



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