Education in the Post-Truth Era

• • Troubling truth: What is truth and why this matters in contemporary education
  • Truth, evidence, and education
  • ‘Alternative facts’ and other challenges for education in the post-truth era
  • Indigenous perspectives and critical pedagogy in the post-truth era
  • Designing learning in and for a post-truth society

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-MED-MAS-2022

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject examines how truth functions in formal education today and the implications for education in the post-truth era. Notions of evidence, fact, truth and what constitutes these are increasingly contested. Democracies around the world are also confronted with a deep-seated crisis as "fake news", "alternative facts" and "misinformation" are promulgated in political and public spheres. Students will explore how Indigenous peoples and cultures, and those of the Global South are now challenging the legitimacy of traditional western epistemology and its hegemony as the purveyor of truth in the 21st Century. Students will consider ways educators can better prepare students for life in society and the 'realities' of a world beset with complex interrelated environmental, economic, social, and political challenges in a post-truth world.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

• Evaluate education from the perspective of post-truth (50%)
• Design for learning (50%)

Current study term: 29 May 22 to 28 Aug 22

Next study term: 27 Nov 22 to 26 Feb 23