Contextual Studies in Education

So, you want to a profession in Education?
You’re interested in national and international educational contexts?

Contextual Studies in Education are core units of study within all undergraduate teaching courses.

Our units of study in Contextual Studies in Education will give you an Australian and international focus on the social and cultural influences of education—and the policies affecting these influences.

We investigate these contexts by engaging with—and understanding—conceptual frameworks from the sociology of education, curriculum theory, social justice and ethical theories, post-structural and postcolonial theories, as well as cultural and global studies.

These conceptual frameworks provide you with ‘tools’ in class presentations, in assessment tasks, and in the analysis of policies and teaching practices.

Our contextual studies analysis provides you with an understanding of the school curriculum as a value-laden social construction; a curriculum can have empowering or conservative effects in relation to the interactions between teachers and pupils. Our teaching methods promote critical inquiry and develop your understanding of teaching as a scholarly, reflective, ethical and political activity—not just a set of strategies for transmitting information or maintaining classroom control.