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Contextual Studies (Education Contexts)

The Education Contexts Teaching and Research Group offers undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision that focuses on the social, historical, philosophical, religious, international and curricular contexts of education. Specific units also examine the educational impact of issues such as gender, indigeneity, race, colonialism, and school-community relations.

Staff members associated with Education Contexts

Davies, Susan
Gamage, Siri
Hardy, Joy
Harrison, Neil
Hobson, Peter
Maxwell, Tom
McConaghy, Cathryn
McQueen, Kelvin
O'Brien, Debra
Soliman, Izabel
Tamatea, Laurence

Units associated with Education Contexts

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EDCX 100   Passionate Pegagogies:  Teaching in Context

EDCX 200   School Rules:  Discourses, Knowledge and Power

EDCX 230   Education Thought and Practice:  Past and Present

EDCX 235   History of Australian Education

EDCX 246   Society and Education

EDCX 300   Just Schooling:  Policy, Curriculum, Commonsense 

EDCX 309   Race Relations in the Classroom

EDCX 315   Indigenous Australian Education

EDCX 330   Education Thought and Practice:  Past and Present

EDCX 331   Education and Values

EDCX 335   History of Australian Education

EDCX 346   Sociology of Education

EDCX 348   Curriculum and the Social Context of Schooling

EDCX 349   Gender and Education

EDCX 390   Teaching Project

EDCX 400   Aboriginal Education

EDCX 409   Race Relations in the Classroom

EDCX 415    Indigenous Australian Education

EDCX 420    Introduction to Curriculum Inquiry

EDCX 422    Curriculum Design for Middle Years Schooling 

EDCX 428    Critical Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry

EDCX 431     Education and Values

EDCX 442     Education For All:  Issues and Challenges 

EDCX 445    Education, Colonialism and Change

EDCX 446     Sociology of Education

EDCX 447     Community Responsive Schooling

EDCX 448     Education and Society:  Contemporary and Global Issues 

EDCX 455   International Schooling:  Challenges and issues

EDCX 494   School Subjects and Curriculum Inquiry

EDCX 528   Critical Perspectives in Curriculum Inquiry

EDCX 531    Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Education

EDCX 545    Education, Colonialism and Change

EDCX 476   Religion in Australia

EDCX 548    Education and Society:  Contemporary and Global Issues 

EDCX 793    EdD Research Proposal

EDCX 982   Aboriginal Studies Curriculum