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Course Code: MMALEI 01

Course Title: Training for development education

College: IoE

Course Director: Clare Bentall

Course Description: This course focuses primarily on the process of creating effective learning environments and facilitating effective learning about global issues. It is a mixed mode module being a combination of face to face and on line learning environments.

You will develop your abilities to create effective learning environments and facilitate effective learning about global issues by:

• Deepening your knowledge of theories of learning and exploring their relevance for promoting learning about global issues, social justice and sustainable development

• Applying your learning directly to your practice as trainers

• Developing your abilities to reflect critically on your knowledge, skills, attitudes and values as trainers

You will explore current pedagogical issues in relation to development education, drawing on traditional and contemporary theories of learning and teaching, deepening your personal links between theory and practice of learning.

The course assumes that in order to work effectively to promote learning about global issues, you need to explore what learning is in the context of development education, with its core values and aims of promoting action and change. You will explore theories of learning and consider the implications for your work as a trainer, drawing on your experience, that of your colleagues, fellow students and tutors and on the literature. You will apply this in practical experience of training either in your work place, through invitations to train from organisations you make contact with or through peertraining.

As pedagogy within Development Education is focused on increasing learners abilities in critical thinking and understanding, as a prerequisite for action, the course will therefore ask you to consider the type of impact you are concerned your learners will have.

By the end of the course you will be able to

• critically analyse theories of learning and their application to training for development education

• create effective learning environments appropriate for exploring global issues

• · use critical reflection as a tool for their personal development as a trainer

In addition, you will be able to

• critically appraise resources and their relevance to learning about global issues and incorporate them into learning programmes

• critically engage with the tensions in your work as trainers between international, national, local and institutional priorities and development education values

• promote learning about global issues, through the use of the elements of the training cycle, for a variety of groups and contexts

The module includes two face to face sessions, one 2 day programme at the beginning of the course and the second 2 day programme towards the end of the course. The rest of the course is organised in an online
format.

Assessment: 1 x 5000 word written assignment

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: 300 hours over 8 months

Schedule of Availability: Register by 30th November for January start

Delivery Mechanisms: Print; 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