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Research Project in Education - HREDU82
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 36
Module presented in English Module presented online
Pre-requisite: RSE4801 Co-requisite: RSE4801
Purpose: This module builds on Research Theories and Methods in Education (RSE4801) to provide the opportunity to conceptualise and/or to engage in an own research project in education. This entails the formulation of a research problem that emerges from a student's educational practice, the engagement with relevant theories and concepts, the development of a research design and reflection on research ethics. In this process students obtain the knowledge, skills and dispositions to participate in the generation of knowledge that could contribute towards quality and relevant education. It is expected that these research projects would speak to issues of decolonisaton, Afrikanisation and indigenisation of education and educational research. Students are also enabled to further their journey as researchers through further studies.
International, Comparative and History of Education - ICH4801
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to provide students with a critical sense of location in the South African education system that will enable them to interpret past and present education developments. The educator will subsequently be in a position to play a role in contributing towards future education provision, demonstrating responsiveness to changing circumstances and societal needs.
Philosophy and Sociology of Education - PSE4801
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students with critical analytical skills to be able to draw on philosophical and sociological foundation and theories of education to address problems in education, teaching and learning.
Research in Education - RSE4801
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Co-requisite: ICH4801or PSE4801 or CSP4801 or HED4802 or HED4803 or HED4804 or HED4804 or HED4805 HED4806 or HED4807 or HED4808 or HED4809 or HED4810 or HED4811 or HED4812 or HED4813 or HED4814 or HED4815 or HED4816 or HED4816 or HED48017 or HED4818
Purpose: The purpose of this modules is to 1. prepare students for conducting a research project in education (in the module Research Project in Education) 2. to create an awareness of and an appreciation for the nature and value of research in education 3. to enable student to theorise about educational research 4. to enable students to formulate a research problem, to locate it in relevant literature and to develop an appropriate research design 5. to develop a critical understanding of the relation between research paradigms, methods and the production of knowledge 6. to enable student to consider ethical issues in research and to write a research proposal
Sociology of Education - SED2601
Under Graduate Degree,Certificate Year module NQF level: 6 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip graduate students with knowledge, skills and values to understand the sociological dimension of childhood education with special reference to birth to nine years. A framework of reflective practice will be used to assist students to engage with varied childhood experiences in diverse contexts in the early years. They will be given opportunities to identify, understand and interpret childhood in the early years as complex arena that needs to be critically engaged with for practice in the Foundation Phase. Specifically, qualifying students will be equipped to draw on theories and sociological dimensions impacting on practice in the Foundation Phase.
Educational studies - EDS3701
Under Graduate Degree Year module NQF level: 7 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to develop interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives on education. Student teachers will be exposed to a variety of exiting education issues and approaches and will be expected to critically reflect, discuss and comment on the viewpoints, content and context of educational thought and practice associated with these issues or approaches.
Educational Studies in context - ESC3701
Certificate Year module NQF level: 7 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of the module is to encourage qualifying graduates to reflect critically on the various philosophies of education and come to an understanding of the possible meaning of education to the students and to their communities. The module prepares qualifying graduates to discuss the relationships between the various theoretical frameworks, with special emphasis on African philosophy and epistemological traditions including Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS). The module will also provide qualifying graduates with an understanding of the social nature of education as a process and schooling as an evolving social construct to maximise opportunities for teaching and learning by means of social interaction. The module will serve as a framework for the analysis of social change in the South African education and schooling system, with emphasis on issues, such as constitutional and educational values, social stratification in education (i.e. social processes - socialisation, social change, social mobility, social justice), linked to services learning community involvement.
Philosophy of Education - PDU3701
Under Graduate Degree Year module NQF level: 7 Credits: 12
Module presented in English
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to explore the various responses provided by different philosophies of education to these questions, and to consider the way in which different philosophies influence education and the way education is understood. The module encourages students to reflect critically on the various philosophies of education and come to an understanding of what education might mean to them and to their communities
South African Education System - SAE3701
Under Graduate Degree Year module NQF level: 7 Credits: 12
Module presented in English
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to provides students with an understanding of the South African education system as a dynamic and evolving social construct. Building on the discussion in "Theoretical Frameworks", the module explores how different interests shaped the apparent purpose and form of the education system in the colonial, apartheid and early democratic period to provide a framework for understanding current challenges. It then provides an overview of the professional, legislative, resourcing and performance guidelines and indicators that influence current practice and seeks to provide students with the ability to anticipate and contribute to positive transformation.
Philosophy in Education - HED4804
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The module develops students' ability to philosophise in education which will strengthen their professional autonomy and enable them to respond to the challenges experienced in educational practices. This module enables students to consider educational issues philosophically within an African context and to articulate an own philosophy of education. Philosophical thinking is developed through the engagement with educational practices, the views of authors, the engagement with theories and the exploration of concepts. Students acquire the ability to articulate and problematise assumptions underlying educational practices and to develop theories and concepts that could contribute towards education that responds to the African context, the world of work, and to ethical, economic, political and environmental issues.
South African History of Education - HED4805
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to provide students with a critical sense of location in the South African education system that will enable them to interpret past and present education developments. The educator will subsequently be in a position to play a role in contributing towards future education provision, demonstrating responsiveness to changing circumstances and societal needs.
International and Comparative Education - HED4806
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The student as educator will have a critical sense of location in the South African education system and will be able to interpret past and present education developments. The student will be in a position to play a role in contributing towards future education provision which demonstrates responsiveness to changing circumstances and needs. The student will explore the development and current context of education in South Africa as well as other countries of the world. Educators/students will engage with the global and international scenarios, case studies and their own teaching context to explore the provision of education in contexts characterised by diversity and ongoing change.
Sociology of Education - HED4809
Honours Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: The purpose of the module is to provide qualifying students with a strong theoretical understanding of the social nature of education as a process and schooling as an evolving social construct to maximise opportunities for teaching and learning by means of social interaction, evident in sociology of education. The module will also serve as a framework for the analysis of social change in the South African schooling system, while participating in complex societal discourses and implementing evidence based solutions linked to theory-driven arguments.