EDED20294 Quality Teaching and Learning

Students are introduced to a reasonably comprehensive analysis of the quality debate, aimed at increasing and supporting their developing critical understanding of the concept of quality at a macro and micro level, particularly as it relates to teaching, learning and associated psychosocial learning environments. The course treats quality as problematic; it is both logically indispensable and yet difficult (if not impossible) to define outside of intentional philosophical analysis. The rhetoric of the quality debate is demythologised and grounded in the realities of the current, yet ever changing, workplace amid a dialectic of competing viewpoints of education, teaching, learning and schooling.