UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA CENTRE FOR EXTERNAL STUDIES ...

Educational ManagementEFMA4701NQF: 7 Credits: 8 Module Assessment: CA 50% Exam 50% - 1 x 3 hours paperPrerequisite: NoneModule Description:There is growing research evidence showing that educational management is the major factor in school improvement and effectivenessand is about providing a culture within which teaching and learning prosper. It is on the basis of this that all student teachers should beequipped with theoretical and practical management and leadership competencies.English for Teachers 1EEET4589NQF: 5 Credits: 4 Module Assessment: CA 50% Exam 50% - 1 x 3 hours paperCo-requisite: ULCE3419 English Communication and Study Skills, or equivalentModule Description:This module develops a student’s understanding, skills and dispositions regarding issues such as: spoken language, written languageand reading.English for Teachers 2EEET4602NQF: 7 Credits: 8 Module Assessment: CA 50% Exam 50% - 1 x 3 hours paperCo-requisite: EEET4589 English for Teachers 1Module Description:This module develops a student’s understanding, skills and dispositions regarding issues such as: spoken language, written languageand reading.First Aid EducationEMFA4699NQF: 6 Credits: 0 Module Assessment: Continuous Assessment 100%Prerequisite: NoneModule Description:First Aid accreditationGeneral Teaching MethodologyECFG4781NQF: 7 Credits: 12 Module Assessment: CA 50% Exam 50% - 1 x 3 hours paperPrerequisite: NoneModule Description:This module develops a student’s understanding, skills and dispositions regarding teaching issues such as: aims of secondary education;learner-centred paradigm; lesson planning; teaching strategies and techniques; creating conducive learning environments; general andcreative methods; principles underpinning effective teaching an classroom management.History and Comparative EducationEFMC4781NQF: 7 Credits: 12 Module Assessment: CA 50% Exam 50% - 1 x 3 hours paperPrerequisite: NoneModule Description:This course develops a student’s understanding skills and dispositions regarding issues that relate to the historical development of formaleducation with specific emphasis on major land marks of change and tools which have helped to shape the present education system ofthe world in general and of Namibia in particular. It further examines the aims of education, education systems, determinants of educationsystem and other critical issues in education.Human Development and LearningEPSH4682NQF: 6 Credits: 12 Module Assessment: CA 50% Exam 50% - 1 x 3 hours paperPrerequisite: NoneModule Description:This module will enable B. Ed students to understand relationships amongst the development of cognition, affect, emotion and socialreasoning in the context of learning in the classroom, school and community. The aim of this will be to provide students with theconceptual understanding of how the development of pre-primary, primary and secondary school learners influence their learning in amilieu of learner-centred education and lifelong self-directed learning. Grounded in the Namibian context and based on the NationalProfessional Standards for teachers. The module will cover selected theories of human development and learning that are sensitive tothe practice of education in a school environment characterised by the diversity of aptitude, need, adversity, resource and culture.125