Adult Education & Professional Practice

Subject EDUC90296 (2013)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2013.

Credit Points: 25
Level: 9 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject is not offered in 2013.

Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 36 hours
Total Time Commitment: Not available
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements: Attendance at all classes (tutorial/seminars/practical classes/lectures/labs) is obligatory. Failure to attend 80% of classes will normally result in failure in the subject.

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Subject Overview: An analysis of debates in adult education as they are engaged by life long learning, looking, for example, generic skills, facilitation, competence-based training, quality assurance, case-mix funding, enterprise-driven professional development and the like; connecting these debates with broader implications drawing upon, respectively, liberal, socially-critical and postmodern scholarship; focusing on specific workplaces where practice deals in these implications; clarifying appropriate professionalism given the above.
Objectives: Not available
Assessment: A literature review of 4,000 words (50 per cent) and a case study of 4,000 words (50 per cent).
Prescribed Texts: None
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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Links to further information: www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au

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