| CODE | IAL2006 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Children Agency and Voice for Self-Determination | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Inclusion and Access to Learning | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will explore how the classroom community (and other educational communities) can nurture the development of the student’s own identity and agentic role within the community. The pedagogical praxes that this study unite will explore are based on two pedagogical ideals of teaching as a tool for ‘learning to learn’ and the classroom as ‘community of learners.’ The inclusive paradigm that the study-unite will explore as an educational space where all participants are related with as agents is that of hospitality. The end objective of the unit is to offer pedagogical theoretic frameworks and praxes models where children are not only related with as learners but also as teachers. Study-unit Aims: The study-unit has three main aims: - to challenge the traditional model of education based on teaching and learning model and to offer a model of education based on community of learners; - for future teachers to engage with children as agents of their own learning and that of others; - to explore children’s agency within a pedagogical praxis based on a democratic community experience. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Define an individual person as a relational being; • Examine the pedagogical developmental role of the classroom community vis-à-vis the individual student; • Review the symbiotic relation between education and ethical responsibility; • Formulate an understanding of education as based on the interchanging operation of teaching and learning; • Identify that the ‘first operation’ of teaching is learning; • Identify possibilities for a classroom community to develop diversified pedagogical methods to engage with each student’s needs and personality; • Establish learning as based on diversity of methods to accommodate the diversity of learning patterns and personalities of the students. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Construct literature that focuses on children agency and self-determination; • Implement teaching skills based on the interchanging operation of teaching and learning; • Implement observing skills to engage with the students’ history and personality; • Formulate an ethical decision based on the understanding of the human being as a relational being; • Analyse the student needs in relation to their context and communities; • Differentiate the teaching methods to accommodate the learning methods of the students; • Explore a holistic pedagogical engagement with the student; • Formulate learning as a community operation; • Compare and construct indoctrination with critical pedagogy. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Text - Neils, A.S (1992). Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood. St. Martin's Griffin. New York. Supplementary texts - Bauman, Z. Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts, Malden, USA: Polity 2008. - Dewey, J. Experience and Education, New York: A Touchstone Book, Simon and Schuster,1997. - Feuerverger, G. Oasis of Dreams: Teaching and Learning Peace in a Jewish-Palestinian Village in Israel, New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2001. - Freire, P. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publication, INC. 2001. - Geras, N. The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy After the Holocaust, New York: Verso, 1998. - Trotman, D. Wow! What If? So What? in Wonder-full Education: The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum. Routledge, New York, 2014. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Francois Mifsud |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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