Course Code: MMAGEO 07

Course Title: Principles and practices of development education

College: IoE

Course Director: Doug Bourn

Course Description: The course aims to:

• encourage critical understanding of the key principles and practices of development education?

• stimulate reflection on the relationship between theoretical perspectives on development education and the engagement of the student in their own delivery of development education?
  

• promote greater understanding of the value of a range of perspectives and approaches to both the theory and practice of development education;

• a greater understanding of the relationship between development and development education?

• developed skills to critically assess approaches to development education and relate them to your own perspectives and experiences?

• be able to have an increased appreciation of the cultures and social foundations of a range of development education practices.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

• identify and assess a range of theoretical perspectives and positions on development education?

• critique a wide range of professional and academic articles and other publications on development education?

• identify, reflect and reassess their own views and perspectives on development education and locate them within debates in the field?

• critique the views and perspectives of fellow students, to understand the basis of their positions and where they are located within wider debates?

• reflect on the range of views on development and assess their value to the principles and practices of development education?

• evaluate the extent to which different views on development education are located within different cultural paradigms?

• develop increased knowledge, skills and an enhanced value base to apply development education within their own or planned work environment.

Assessment: 2 Written Papers; Assignment 1 (1,500 words) 20% / Assignment 2 (3,500 words) 80%

Course Credit: This course offers 30 credits that can be transfered to IoE Certificate, Diploma or Masters-level programmes, on consultation with the IoE Registry

Course Study Hours/Duration: 300hrs over 12 weeks of study and assessment

Schedule of Availability: Oct - Dec (enrolment by 30th July) / Jan - March (enrolment by 21st November)

Delivery Mechanisms: Online

Cost: Subsidised fees (for EU students) - £688; Standard Fees (for overseas students or any student with an existing Masters qualification) - £1572

How to apply: To enquire about applying for this course, or for any other information, please contact the Course Administrator using the online Enquiry Form below