Want to add value to your degree?
Study Education as one of your ‘General Education’ courses
The Faculty of Education offers five courses as part of the General Education schedule; EDUC 120G Education, Knowledge and Society, EDUC 121G How People Learn, EDUC 122G Learning Sexualities, DISABLTY 113G Making Disabilities and YOUTHWRK 152G Understanding New Zealand Youth.
Whether you’re studying in an area such as management, human resources, psychology or health or you’re planning a career path which will see you working with people, education can add value to your degree as you become more aware about the process of learning and the critical role education plays in society.
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2009 General Education (319kB)
The Faculty of Education has five General Education Courses:
- EDUC 120G: Education, Knowledge and Society
- EDUC 121G: How People Learn
- EDUC 122G: Learning Sexualities
- DISABLTY 113G: Making Disabilities
- YOUTHWRK 152G: Understanding New Zealand Youth
EDUC 120G: Education, Knowledge and Society
Examines how philosophical thought has constructed models of knowledge which in turn inform approaches to teaching and learning. Educational implications of developments in the theory of knowledge are also examined. The changing conceptions of the nature and purpose of eduction are investigated with reference to education for Maori and Pacific communities.
NB : EDUC 120G not being taught in 2009.
EDUC 121G: How People Learn
From the time of Plato and Aristotle, writers have questioned the nature of the mind, brain, thought and memory. Recent theories and models in cognitive psychology and neuro-science and given us a vastly improved understanding of the functions of the human brain and the processes involved in human thinking and learning. These processes are the basis of activities such as problem-solving, concept learning, information-processing, language and remembering.
This understanding has direct implications for the development of academic skills, especially in classrooms and instructional settings. Innovate national and international research has shown dramatic improvements in student learning based on instructional strategies that constitute effective teaching and which are responsive to motivation, personality and culture.
This course will appeal to people who have asked themselves such questions as why some things seem easier to learn than others, why they forget things that they once knew, and why some people learn faster than others. It will also appeal to people who want to know how to help their own learning or the learning of others.
Semester One: City Campus - Monday 10.00 - 12.00 / MIT - Wednesday 13.00 - 15.00
EDUC 122G: Learning Sexualities
Sexuality is a fundamental component of human identity with the potential to enhance our life experiences and make them more challenging. This capacity means that how sexualities are socially conceived, and what we learn about them, is of significance to our own and others' lives.
All education has social effects and for sexuality education these are partly evidenced in the potential to influence an individual's sexual behaviour around for example safer sex or communication in intimate relationships. This is a course for those who are interested in how we learn about sexualities and the social effects of this for ourselves and others.
Visit website for the "learning sexualities" course. 'The SORCE' - the sexualities on-line resource in education.
Semester two: Monday & Tuesday 13.00 - 14.00
DISABLTY 113G: Making Disabilities
Examines the expression of social and cultural ideas of disability in popular culture through film, television and print media. The course aims to develop skills to examine the construction and maintenance of concepts of disability and disabling identities in popular culture. The consequences of these processes are also discussed and their implications for perpetuating social devaluation, discrimination and disadvantage.
Semester Two: Wednesday 12.00 - 2.00pm
YOUTHWRK 152G: Understanding New Zealand Youth
How and what do we learn about young people in New Zealand? An investigation of multiple avenues of youth expression, as well as how others respond to young people. The ways that we learn about what it is to be a young person in New Zealand today, including sport, body image, media, music, technology and social networking will be explored.
Semester two: Friday 12.00 - 2.00pm
