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The following classes are available to exchange students studying in the Institute of Education:

Semester 1 – Level 2

These classes run from September until December

Class code: X9280
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, private study

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Learning involves fundamental psychological processes, such as cognitive, emotional, interpersonal and linguistic processes. Learning starts before birth and is continuous as learners develop and experience the world. In this module, students will examine the processes involved in human learning, individual learners’ needs, and contextual influences upon learners and learning. This class will help students to:

develop a critical understanding of the psychological processes involved in learning and be able to discuss these
develop critical understanding of individual learner needs and be able to describe these
have a critical understanding of interpersonal co-construction of meaning and learning and will be able to provide examples related to this
be able to provide examples of contextual influences upon learners and learning processes and be able to discuss this critically
develop a critical understanding of supporting and facilitating learning and be able to highlight links with professional practices in relation to this
have a critical understanding of learning across the lifespan and be able to discuss this in relation to different contexts

There are three assessment components:

five Learning Processes Portfolios completed throughout the semester
five Multiple Choice Quizzes completed throughout the semester
the Final Written Assignment (2000 words)

Class code: X7209
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This module introduces students to the fundamentals of language learning. Students will develop a basic understanding of current views on how languages are learned. Drawing on their own experience as language learner/users, this module will examine key theories and concepts in second language acquisition. This module will be assessed through a European Language Portfolio, using classwork experiments, reflections and discussion to inform your decisions about your progress and next steps.

Class code: X7211
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials

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This module will help students to be able to research and manage a wide range of information about education and learning. The learning objectives of this class are to: Identify key issues and questions in the fields of education and learning, Draw logical and justified conclusions about key aspects of education and learning, Think critically and analyse situations and information in relation to education and learning. Enquire and pursue critical questions in the fields of education and learning, Reflect on your own experiences of education and learning.

Class code: X2405
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This course introduces and interrogates critical frameworks and processes for understand L2 language learning. Students will demonstrate understanding of L2 language learning processes. Students will connect culturally situated language learning and language policy to wider frameworks for language learning. Students will critically interrogate the global role of L2 English learning and proficiency. Students will demonstrate an understanding of Scottish policy and approaches to broad L2 education in primary and secondary schools.

Semester 1 – Level 3

Class code: X7334
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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The module will provide support in the application of knowledge and understanding of research methods, to provide a structured argument in defence of a proposed topic for investigation. Upon completing this class students should be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of key research methods, alternative research strategies, principles of research design and project planning, Evaluate and defend the key enquiry methods proposed and justify choices made with relevant reading on research approaches and methods and reference to research ethics, Defend hypotheses and/or questions in terms of professional and academic need, Discuss the anticipated impact and contribution of their research to knowledge, policy and practice, Write a clear, well-documented and well justified research proposal.

Class code: X7331
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This class will allow students to: Extend their understanding of the main knowledge, skills and concepts central to the teaching of Social Studies - Geography, History and People In Society, Explore the potential for delivering an interdisciplinary approach through Social Studies, Consider opportunities for exploring a range of global citizenship themes within Social Studies, Geography and People in Society, Develop approaches to teaching and learning that promote the knowledge, skills and develop creative pedagogies that exemplify current thinking related to Geography, History and People In Society, Explore the use of formative and summative assessment strategies, in each of the curricular areas, as a means of promoting learning in a primary classroom. Assessment for this class will include a collaborative group presentation as well as a 1,500 word reflective log on observations of teaching in the area of Social Studies.

Class code: X7332
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Practical, Private Study

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By the end of this class students will be able to: Demonstrate sound knowledge of how key concepts in sciences and technologies can be developed across the primary school, Develop a toolkit of practical approaches to teaching and learning that exemplify current thinking within sciences and technologies, Acquire a range of formative and summative assessment strategies to help determine, and further develop, pupils’ understanding of key concepts in primary sciences and technologies, Justify approaches to teaching and learning in light of current research into primary sciences and technologies, Demonstrate how key principles, content and methodology might be combined into coherent sciences and technologies lessons for primary school aged children, Demonstrate a commitment to professional development in primary sciences and technologies through demonstrating collaborative practice and effective resources development in practical lab situations.

Class code: X7330
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 10 (5 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This class will prepare teachers in the early stages of their career for the demands of delivering the 1 + 2 curriculum learning model effectively in the classroom. A wide range of language learning contexts and approaches will be explored to develop teacher awareness of cultural diversity and how these can support inclusion and attainment, and equip teachers with the core skills in teaching a language in the primary school setting. This class will allow students to: Develop a knowledge and understanding of policies relating to language learning in the primary school in Scotland, Develop a knowledge and understanding of key theories of language learning and teaching in the primary school, Develop an understanding and awareness of the key pedagogies of teaching an additional language and how these can be applied to the primary school context, Reflect on language learning experiences using other languages with reference to learner motivation, identity and culture.

Class code: X7310
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This class will explore how children and childhood have been imagined and constructed in a range of historical and contemporary contexts. Drawing on representations of children, we aim to support you in developing an understanding of children and childhood as part of a set of social and cultural relations. With a focus on environments other than formal education, the module will seek to open for discussion the nature of childhood according to themes such as politics, history, play, work, the global and queerness. This class will allow people to: Investigate the changing role and place of children and childhood in society by considering the concepts across time and place, Be a critical reader of representations of children and childhood in art, film, literature and theory, Explain how notions of children and childhood have a bearing on features within society (for example, in contexts such as the world of work, law, family, play, etc), Give an oral presentation on one aspect of children/childhood in relation to film and/or literature, Create a portfolio, with commentary, that critically analyses an aspect of children and/or childhood that has been covered in the class.

Class code: X7333
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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Health and Wellbeing permeates the whole of the Scottish Curriculum and a makes a necessary contribution to a rich RME programme. Therefore, this module is positioned not only to build on key concepts and issues that underpin and develop thinking in relation to both curricular areas but, in response to the policy framework and recommendations outlined in the Donaldson Report and McCormac Review. Students will reflect on their knowledge and understanding of the core principles underlying health and wellbeing, critically reflecting on their own practice in relation to developing, reinforcing and extending learning in health and wellbeing for children. Students will reflect on their knowledge and understanding of the core principles underlying RME, critically reflecting on their own practice in relation to developing, reinforcing and extending learning in RME for children. Students will extend their knowledge, skills, approaches and practices in embedding health and wellbeing across the curriculum. Students will extend their knowledge, skills, approaches and practices in devising interdisciplinary programmes of RME and health and wellbeing. Students will demonstrate a critical understanding of health concepts, health promotion theory, principles and current issues, considering them in relation to, and applying them to teaching and learning in RME. The assessment for this class will include a group presentation exploring an interdisciplinary/holistic approach to a primary school topic.

Class code: X7348
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This module introduces students to the pedagogical processes in language teaching. The topics include traditional and contemporary language teaching methods (audiolingual, communicative language teaching, task-based language learning, etc.). We will also discuss practical issues such as lesson planning, material evaluation and design, needs analysis and profiling, and classroom management. In this module, students will gain some first-hand experience of English language teaching in practice through micro teaching. This module’s assessment will include working in groups to create a class ‘wiki’ as well as a 2,500 essay on the literature of language learning.

Class code: X7353
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This class will help students to critically appraise key theories, concepts and terminology relating to adult education. By the end of this class students will be able to: Demonstrate understanding of the application of theories, concepts and examples to the practice of facilitating adult education, Observe and practise teaching methods and techniques appropriate to adult education, Critically analyse dispositions required to work in a range of settings and contexts.

Class code: X7351
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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Who are you, and what do you think about education, and why? Despite everybody being somehow involved in education, those important questions are rarely asked and reflected upon. The best way to engage with such problems is the encounter with the Other in either historical or intercultural perspective. Using a set of questions around fundamental pedagogical notions and concepts (such as ‘educator’, ‘student’, ‘pedagogical relationship’, ‘curriculum’, ‘pedagogical ethics’, ‘Education Studies’, etc.) the module will explore different answers to those questions that either have been given in our own culture in the past, or in other cultures in the past or today (for example, in East/ South East/ South Asia, in the Arabic world, in African societies, in South America, and amongst indigenous tribes and peoples around the globe). The fundamental problems explored in this class will include: What is education perceived to be? What is the educator understood to be and what is the student, and how is their pedagogical relationship established, organised and justified? What is/are the purposes of education and how does it get justified? What is the relation between individual and social needs within education? What ways of educating are preferred, and why? How is the reflection on education codified and institutionalised?

Class code: X7325
Level: 3
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: This will require a PVG check and ‘certificate of good conduct’ from your home country. Please enquire about this with your home country authorities in advance of coming to 麻豆女优.
Teaching methods: Placement

Class descriptor

This placement experience will allow students to: Review the Scottish education system, Compare and contrast the education systems in both their home country and Scotland, Plan, implement and evaluate learning experiences for children in the context of their home school culture and subject specialism, Identify their strengths and development needs and be able to act on these, Reflect upon their experience and the impact of this learning on their future career. Assignment for this class will expect students to maintain a reflective log of observations within the school in which the student is placed. This module offers a limited experience in schools of perhaps 1-2 days per week over a short period of 4- 6 weeks. Individual requirements should be discussed with the exchange co-ordinator.

This is the standard placement module for exchange/ visiting students.

Semester 1 – Level 4

Class code: X7339
Level: 4
Semester (including exams): 1 (September to December)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Group Work, Private Study, Seminar/Tutorials, Work based learning

Class descriptor

Upon completing this class students will be able to: Select professionally relevant academic texts and journal articles about a self-selected topic using University Library systems and efficient search strategies, Undertake critical analysis and the evaluation and synthesis of ideas, concepts and information taken from this reading for the purposes of their own research objectives, Identify key words, define search strategies, and compare and contrast the ideas of different authors within their selected literature, Create an annotated bibliography about a self-selected topic that shows a critical understanding of key themes within the literature and is accurately referenced to the original source.

Semester 2 – Level 2

Classes run from January to May

Class code: X7210
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

Class descriptor

Upon completing this class students will be able to: Recognise, describe and discuss a range of cultural and sociological writing, Discuss the importance of cultural and sociological writing to education, Discuss the ways that cultural, social, political, and economic change prompts revisions and new directions in and understandings of education, Work cooperatively in a small group environment in developing communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills.

Class code: X7207
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This module explores the use of digital technologies for language teaching and learning. The module considers ways to develop students’ 21st Century skills both as language user/learners and as language teachers. Students will also develop the practical experience of using digital technology, learn to design and evaluate digital materials for the language classroom, and create the digital environment for language learning. For Part 1 of the assessment, students will work in groups and create a digital learning environment for learning English as a foreign language. For Part 2, students will write a written essay in which they reflective on their experience of working on the collaborative task.

Class code: X7208
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This module will equip students with the required knowledge of understanding the process of reading, writing, listening and speaking in a second/foreign language, especially in academic settings. The aim is to give students increased confidence in communicating in English. Students will extend their vocabulary, improve their pronunciation and grammatical accuracy, and develop their communicative competence. Assessment will consist of two group presentations, a quiz, and an individual report of 1,500 words.

Class code: X9296
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study

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This module will teach students to explain key aspects of how human memory connects to learning, using research-based concepts and terminology such as 'metacognition' and ‘working memory’. Students will learn to identify examples of beliefs about learning and memory, including misconceptions, and discuss the implications of these. The module is assessed via a 2000-word written essay assignment in which students have to analyse two real examples of misconceptions.

Class code: X7213
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study, Fieldwork

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Presenting mathematics through a historical and cultural lens, this module aims to increase the appeal of mathematics as a creative and culturally relevant discipline. Through collaborative practical examinations of the local environment, students will be supported to develop a more positive and activist approach to learning in the STEM subjects. Students will be directed to identify how maths has shaped our society, to experience the artistic beauty in pattern and geometry, and to explore mathematical constructs in the natural and built environment through an examination of structures and images that demonstrate maths in action. Using the local area as an environmental laboratory will allow students to experience maths in context and to examine the implications of mathematical understanding for societal benefits. Upon completing this class students will be able to: Explain how mathematical concepts and mathematical language have originated and developed from ancient civilisations to the present day, Consider how differences in the construction of number systems around the globe might contribute to misconceptions in learning, Develop an appreciation of how mathematical concepts are fundamental to the natural and built environment, Identify how mathematical concepts contribute to artistic creations or artworks. Assessment for this module will require students to work collaboratively in small groups to identify, examine and present how mathematical concepts underpin the construction of a known landmark in the local area, i.e., Glasgow City region. Students will also be expected to create a portfolio of work, consisting of four main components (500 words each), with each one relating to one of the four learning outcomes of this module.

Class code: QQ211
Level: 2
Semester (including exams): 2 (January to May)
Credits: 20 (10 ECTS)
Level of study: Undergraduate
Prerequisites: None
Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars/Tutorials, Private Study