Universität Wien

190066 SE Educational Theories in International and Historical Comparison (2015S)

Locations of Learning: Between the Formal, the Informal, and Beyond

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 19 - Bildungswissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 30.06. 09:00 - 18:00 Medien-und Methodenlabor Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
  • Wednesday 01.07. 09:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 02.07. 09:00 - 17:00 Seminarraum 1 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The OECD identifies three forms of learning the formal, the non-formal, and the informal. Yet, traditionally, learning is attached to institutional settings. Learning happens in/to humans everywhere by the mere fact of being alive. The course charts in a variety of theoretical perspectives what can be regarded as a transformation in educational thinking. It shines light on teaching and learning activities and perspectives which are normally in the periphery of the study of the field of education in general. All in all, the course introduces students to a critical understanding of the principles and practice of fostering learning and development while trying to overcome the unnecessary formal informal educational divide.

Assessment and permitted materials

Examination requirements/condition of examination
All participants will be required to make an oral presentation during the course and submit a final written assignment (10-15 typed double spaced).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Aims of lecturer(s)
In general encourage intellectual growth and critical perspectives in participating students, more in particular afford students the opportunity to critically consider basic paradigmatic psychologized understanding of education and learning.

Examination topics

Principles of learning and teaching
Given the concentrated nature of the summer course a variety of educational approaches will be adopted. Frontal presentation (supported by PP), close reading of texts, workshop settings, and group discussions.

Reading list

Provisional list of readings:

Bekerman, Z., Burbules, N. C., & Keller, D. S. (2006). Learning in places: the informal education reader (Vol. 249): Peter Lang.
Bekerman, Z., u. Keller, D. S. (2004). Non Formal Pedagogy Epistemology Rhetoric and Practice. Education and Society, 22(1), 31-45.
Ranciere, J. (1991). The ignorant schoolmaster: Five lessons in intelectual emancipation (K. Ross, Trans.). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
McDermott, R. (1993). The adquisition of a child by a learning disability. In S. Chaiklin u. J. Lave (Eds.), Understanding practice (pp. 269-306). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kahane, R. (1997). The Origins of Postmodern Youth: Informal Youth Movements in a Comparative Perspective. New York: Walter de Gruyte.

Association in the course directory

WM-M8

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