This is a Level 1 course template
Level 1 course is designed for courses that primarily aim to use the elearning platform for content delivery, with no or very little online activities or interactions.
This is a Level 1 course template
Level 1 course is designed for courses that primarily aim to use the elearning platform for content delivery, with no or very little online activities or interactions.
Welcome to the first of three ED300 Modules that you will do to successfully complete the course. In this, your first Module, you will complete a three week placement in a school. Quite possibly for many of you this will be your first time back in a school and classroom since you were a student yourself. The Module is designed as an introductory experience where you are to observe and reflect on what you see going on around you in both the classroom and the wider school and its community. You are not required to do any teaching, although you may if required assist your Associate Teachers in the lessons they teach. In this case you shall be interacting with the students and generally helping out in the classroom. The specific mandatory requirements of this Module are mapped out below. They form 10% of your overall result in this course and are added to the assessment weighting of the other two Modules you will complete over the span of your degree.
Please take some time to familiarise yourself with the contents of this Moodle page and the requirements of the Module.
Please pay particular attention to the assessment overview and how each of the tasks help you work toward important course outcomes. At a later stage you will combine all completed assessment tasks (from Modules 1, 2 and 3) into an e-portfolio based on the 8 ED300 course outcomes. You will find all eight course outcomes listed in the downloadable course outline below. Please familiarise yourself with them as they guide us all in the direction in which we need to be heading in this important capstone ED300 Practicum course.
Welcome to the first of three ED300 Modules that you will do to successfully complete the course. In this, your first Module, you will complete a three week placement in a school. Quite possibly for many of you this will be your first time back in a school and classroom since you were a student yourself. The Module is designed as an introductory experience where you are to observe and reflect on what you see going on around you in both the classroom and the wider school and its community. You are not required to do any teaching, although you may if required assist your Associate Teachers in the lessons they teach. In this case you shall be interacting with the students and generally helping out in the classroom. The specific mandatory requirements of this Module are mapped out below. They form 10% of your overall result in this course and are added to the assessment weighting of the other two Modules you will complete over the span of your degree.
Please take some time to familiarise yourself with the contents of this Moodle page and the requirements of the Module.
Please pay particular attention to the assessment overview and how each of the tasks help you work toward important course outcomes. At a later stage you will combine all completed assessment tasks (from Modules 1, 2 and 3) into an e-portfolio based on the 8 ED300 course outcomes. You will find all eight course outcomes listed in the downloadable course outline below. Please familiarise yourself with them as they guide us all in the direction in which we need to be heading in this important capstone ED300 Practicum course.
Welcome to the first of three ED300 Modules that you will do to successfully complete the course. In this, your first Module, you will complete a three week placement in a school. Quite possibly for many of you this will be your first time back in a school and classroom since you were a student yourself. The Module is designed as an introductory experience where you are to observe and reflect on what you see going on around you in both the classroom and the wider school and its community. You are not required to do any teaching, although you may if required assist your Associate Teachers in the lessons they teach. In this case you shall be interacting with the students and generally helping out in the classroom. The specific mandatory requirements of this Module are mapped out below. They form 10% of your overall result in this course and are added to the assessment weighting of the other two Modules you will complete over the span of your degree.
Please take some time to familiarise yourself with the contents of this Moodle page and the requirements of the Module.
Please pay particular attention to the assessment overview and how each of the tasks help you work toward important course outcomes. At a later stage you will combine all completed assessment tasks (from Modules 1, 2 and 3) into an e-portfolio based on the 8 ED300 course outcomes. You will find all eight course outcomes listed in the downloadable course outline below. Please familiarise yourself with them as they guide us all in the direction in which we need to be heading in this important capstone ED300 Practicum course.
Welcome to the first of three ED300 Modules that you will do to successfully complete the course. In this, your first Module, you will complete a three week placement in a school. Quite possibly for many of you this will be your first time back in a school and classroom since you were a student yourself. The Module is designed as an introductory experience where you are to observe and reflect on what you see going on around you in both the classroom and the wider school and its community. You are not required to do any teaching, although you may if required assist your Associate Teachers in the lessons they teach. In this case you shall be interacting with the students and generally helping out in the classroom. The specific mandatory requirements of this Module are mapped out below. They form 10% of your overall result in this course and are added to the assessment weighting of the other two Modules you will complete over the span of your degree.
Please take some time to familiarise yourself with the contents of this Moodle page and the requirements of the Module.
Please pay particular attention to the assessment overview and how each of the tasks help you work toward important course outcomes. At a later stage you will combine all completed assessment tasks (from Modules 1, 2 and 3) into an e-portfolio based on the 8 ED300 course outcomes. You will find all eight course outcomes listed in the downloadable course outline below. Please familiarise yourself with them as they guide us all in the direction in which we need to be heading in this important capstone ED300 Practicum course.
The educational enterprise is much more complex than ever before and is increasingly becoming a matter of public interest and debate. Therefore an appreciation and understanding of the educational policy process is useful to the planners themselves, as well as educators generally. These matters are of relevance and importance not only to the educational administrators, who are called upon to make policy decisions and are required to give policy advice at various levels within the educational systems, but also teachers and other members of the stakeholders. ED453 is intended for educators and for both practicing and prospective educational administrators and planners. It will deal with relevant theoretical perspectives, research bases and practical experiences in various aspects of educational policy process. In particular, the policy making process in this course is conceptualized in three contexts: the context of influence; the context of text production; and context of practice.
The educational enterprise is much more complex than ever before and is increasingly becoming a matter of public interest and debate. Therefore an appreciation and understanding of the educational policy process is useful to the planners themselves, as well as educators generally. These matters are of relevance and importance not only to the educational administrators, who are called upon to make policy decisions and are required to give policy advice at various levels within the educational systems, but also teachers and other members of the stakeholders. ED453 is intended for educators and for both practicing and prospective educational administrators and planners. It will deal with relevant theoretical perspectives, research bases and practical experiences in various aspects of educational policy process. In particular, the policy making process in this course is conceptualized in three contexts: the context of influence; the context of text production; and context of practice.
The educational enterprise is much more complex than ever before and is increasingly becoming a matter of public interest and debate. Therefore an appreciation and understanding of the educational policy process is useful to the planners themselves, as well as educators generally. These matters are of relevance and importance not only to the educational administrators, who are called upon to make policy decisions and are required to give policy advice at various levels within the educational systems, but also teachers and other members of the stakeholders. ED453 is intended for educators and for both practicing and prospective educational administrators and planners. It will deal with relevant theoretical perspectives, research bases and practical experiences in various aspects of educational policy process. In particular, the policy making process in this course is conceptualized in three contexts: the context of influence; the context of text production; and context of practice.
This postgraduate course focuses on the natural resources of the Pacific Islands which include biodiversity (terrestrial and marine), water, soils, minerals, geothermal energy, and others. Emphasis will be placed on the nature of human resource-use systems in the Pacific Islands; how these systems have affected terrestrial and marine resources; and actions that can be taken to protect natural resources and to promote environmentally and culturally sustainable development in the Pacific islands. Emphasis is also placed on obtaining a better understanding of the main concepts and recent trends in global Political Ecology, in particular UN agreements. We aim, for instance, to identify holistic, indigenous community-based approaches to preserving ecosystem services to illustrate Pacific leadership in the implementation of the various UN agreements, and to identify respective problems in the region.
This course focuses on aspects of the Geography of the Pacific Islands of interest to individual students. It is a course tailored to a particular student`s interests and/or requirements given their planned thesis topic or interests. This course will provide students with a detailed knowledge of a particular aspect of Pacific Islands geography, for example, land-population relationship in Kiribati, the home gardening potential in urban Vanuatu, or the evidence for recent coastline changes in the Southern Cook Islands, Pacific industrialisation, produce marketing in Fiji. Identifying relevant sources of information, knowledge of appropriate methods of data analysis and interpretation.
This course particularly focuses on individual research that will lead to a literature review and discussion paper as the start point of your own research project.
The class will be conducted as a face-to-face seminar format and the main purpose is to provide an opportunity for individual research and discussion rather than for lectures. This year we will discuss a variety of topics to cover your diverse background and interest.
In the first part of the course, students will work up their own ideas on their own project, which is a literature review and discussion paper of a topic of interest. Your research paper should be a theoretical review your research interest. In consultation with your supervisor and/or the course coordinator, your research paper may form a significant component of the literature review of your thesis. Assigned readings will be provided, while you are also required to identify journal articles relevant to your topic.
Given the diverse nature of course participants, later in the course we will widen discussions based on the different perspectives each of us brings to the classroom. By doing this, students are trained to read academic journal articles and book chapter intensively, and will expand their perspectives on a particular concept of their interest.
Journal articles you will identify should be:
- published recently (ideally over the past decade);
- published in a leading journals in your discipline
- must be a research article, i.e. should not be such articles as book reviews, editorials, obituaries