Postgraduate CUR-EDMP502C-2020
Sustainable Education
Investigate the influences of emerging concepts on the future of education. Examine the impact of globalisation on education systems, educators, leaders and learners. Develop a futures focused model of education for local leadership contexts.
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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
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QS RANKING 2021
13
Times Higher Education Ranking 2021
13
Subject details
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- examine the purposes and intent of futures focussed theories in relation to education
- analyse and critique the impact of futures focussed influences on education in international and national contexts within a neoliberal framework
- evaluate and critique educational models based on futures focussed ideas and concepts
- develop a practical response to incorporate futures focussed models of education into local leadership contexts.
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- Introduction to Futures Thinking (Inayatullah) Future focused models of education
- Drivers of futures thinking in education - international and national contexts
- Education leadership in a Neoliberal landscape (Eriksen)
- Sustainable models of educational leadership (Hargreaves, Fullan)
- Sustainability - the four pillars - political; sociocultural; environmental and economic
- Education for sustainability (ARIES; Tilbury; Sterling)
- Education as sustainability (ARIES; Tilbury; Sterling)
- Integral models of thinking for sustainability (Wilbur)
- The contribution of education to sustainable global development
- Globalisation: Key Concepts (Ball; Lingard; Marginson; Friedman; Polanyi) Internationalising the curriculum, natural, economic and sociocultural
- Education and the creation of living capital and anthro-capital
- Review
Equivalent subjects
You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
Special requirements
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- Additional materials
This subject explores the influences on education of emerging concepts concerning the future of education. This includes education (of, for and as) sustainability, globalisation and notions of sustainable education. It also examines the impact of these on education systems, educators, leaders and learners within the context of a globalised landscape. This subject provides educators with theoretical and conceptual frameworks to understand these influences and the practical tools to respond to such change.
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- Case Study (60%)
- Report (40%)