Module Learning Outcome

Assessment Criteria

The student can:

Demonstrate an advanced appreciation of current educational ideology

Demonstrate an understanding of the various ideologies (e.g. neo-liberalism) which shape current education policy debates and discourse

Demonstrate an advanced appreciation of the current educational policy agenda

Critically engage with current educational trends, agendas and movements (e.g. academies, free schools, anti-terrorism legislation in education, marketization in higher education, affirmative in action in university admissions etc.) and their historical development.  

Demonstrate an advanced understanding of current educational ideology

Expand on key concepts and theoretical frameworks that have influenced current educational ideologies and debates.

Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the current educational policy agenda

Expand on the key concepts and principles that underpin current educational policy agendas.

Apply knowledge and understanding of educational ideology that drives the current educational policy agenda to construct a debate focussing an issue

The ability to use the academic literature, theoretical frameworks encountered in the module and other sources to re-construct educational debates that focuses on specific issues, topics.  

Use academic sources and other appropriate resources to inform a debating position

Demonstrate the ability to support a debate using a range of relevant and appropriate sources of information.  

Demonstrate skills of handling and using different perspectives

Demonstrate the ability to use information from a range of perspectives in an informed and reasoned way, and also to recognise how the value of evidence/information is shaped by perspective.

Communicate effectively in writing.

Produce an academic essay that is clear, coherent, well-structured, and grammatically correct, with consistently and correctly formatted citations and a complete reference list.