1997 QUT Handbook

■ PRB415 INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATIONAL
ADMINISTRATION
Introduction to educational administration with particular reference
to the theory and practice of work roles, motivation, leadership,
decision making, change, conflict, needs assessment and
presentation of written reports for various educational settings.
Courses: ED26, ED37, ED43, ED50, ED51, ED52, ED54
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PRB416 CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT PRACTICES
Examination of nature and purpose of assessment; traditional
and contemporary developments in the assessment of students
in a range of settings; test construction and validation; record
keeping and reporting, with emphasis on practical applications
by practising teachers
Courses: ED26, ED37, ED43, ED50, ED51, ED52, ED54,
ED61
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PRB417 EDUCATORS & THE LAW
Legal literacy; sources of education law; students and rights;
students’ law and schools; parents’ law and education; educators
rights and obligations; educators’ and school-based accidents;
educational malpractice; educational administration and
law.
Courses: ED23, ED26, ED61
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PRB419 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Valuable for all educators concerned with communicating
environmental knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes and values
in formal and informal learning situations. Participants
are encouraged to pursue the objectives of environmental education
within their own subject specialisations.
Courses: ED26, ED54, NS48
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PRB420 BUSINESS ORGANISATION &
MANAGEMENT
This unit is designed to assist teachers to teach Business Organisation
and Management in secondary schools and other
educational and training settings. It examines the philosophy
of such courses, typical content, and appropriate teaching and
assessment strategies.
Courses: ED26, ED50
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PRN601 CURRICULUM INQUIRY & RESEARCH
This unit is set within the context of trends, policies and practices
which impact upon the decisions made by educators as
curriculum practitioners. Curriculum inquiry and research are
addressed with an appreciation of how curriculum trends,
policies and practices have been framed and investigated in
the past; how contemporary researchers and writers conceptualise
curriculum as a field of inquiry and how curriculum
practitioners are central in theorising about and transforming
their own professional practice as curriculum leaders.
Courses: ED13, ED11 Credit Points: 12
■ PRN602 PROFESSIONAL GROWTH &
DEVELOPMENT
This unit is designed for those practitioners who are interested
in initiating and responding to curriculum change as both individuals
and in collaboration with others. It assumes that curriculum
leaders at different levels are required to be both
proactive and reactive towards such change and this unit seeks
to develop understandings which enable them to do this. This
unit cultivated uniqueness and virtuosity, is guided by individual
judgments in their context and leads to individual understandings
and awareness of professional development issues.
Courses: ED13, ED11 Credit Points: 12
■ PRN603 LEADING CHANGE IN
CONTEMPORARY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
This unit considers a range of contemporary problems and
issues in cultures and climates of incessant educational change
which are impacting on the professional practice of educators.
These circumstances underline the need for curriculum
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leadership in professional practice. Problem areas include:
managing behaviour in a supportive school environment; promoting
inclusion practices; interpreting and implementing
educational policy, e.g. the Whiltshire report; mentoring the
beginning teacher; managing stress; implementing effective
learning and teaching principles; translating teacher competencies
into practice; creating and transforming organisational
cultures. The unit provides the opportunity for students to focus
on particular professional problems and issues of interest
to them and, within the context of relevant literature and the
realities of their particular professional situation, develop a
change plan for addressing these problems and issues which
is transformative and action-oriented.
Courses: ED13, ED11 Credit Points: 12
■ PRN604 ACHIEVING QUALITY IN
EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS
The processes of education and training are associated with
implementing and ensuring quality procedures and outcomes.
A major contributing factor in seeking quality in education is
related to the formulation and application of appropriate assessment
and evaluation techniques. The unit is designed for
educational and evaluation activities for quality learning outcomes
in a range of institutional, community and workplace
contexts.
Courses: ED13, ED11 Credit Points: 12
■ PRN605 FLEXIBLE DELIVERY: PEDAGOGICAL
ISSUES & IMPERATIVES
Educators are being increasingly confronted with the need to
design and deliver education and training in an open and flexible
manner. This requires an understanding of the concepts
and practices of open learning, distance learning and flexible
delivery, in particular using a range of information technology
and telecommunications. This use of emerging technologies
in an open learning approach is being accompanied by a
shift to constructivist theory and practice whereby the individual
learner, rather than the institution, assumes significant
control of the learning process. This unit draws upon recent
curriculum theory and research, with particular reference to
pedagogical issues, in order to focus on the specific educator
skills associated with the introduction and application of open
learning and flexible modes of delivery.
Courses: ED13, ED11 Credit Points: 12
■ PRN611 ADULT & WORKPLACE EDUCATION:
PRINCIPLES & PRACTICES
The ethical basis, the contextual basis and the expert knowledge
of adult and workplace education are explored through
the themes of conceptualisation, teaching adults, change, flexible
delivery, assessment and legal risk management. This will
provide an extensive basis for further work, including research,
in the area.
Courses: ED13, ED11
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PRN612 LEGAL RISK MANAGEMENT &
WORKPLACE EDUCATION
The legal environment facing workplace educators is becoming
evermore complex with significant increases in legislation
and precedents arising from decisions reached in civil
and industrial courts. This unit is based on a perception of
workplace educators needing a level of legal literacy sufficient
to recognise rights and responsibilities that will enable
them, in collaboration with other specialists, to implement
appropriate legal risk management strategies.
Courses: ED13, ED11
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ PRN613 STRATEGIC WORKPLACE EDUCATION
& THE LEARNING ORGANISATION
This unit examines the effect of the organisational market niche
and other influences on strategic decision making in workplace
education. In addition, the literature on learning organisations
and organisational learning is expanding rapidly and this discourse
needs to be examined in the light of its strategic dependence
and influence. This unit will be conducted using