Content

The student will choose an area in which to focus and will construct a learning task and assessment for themselves requiring clear learning outcomes and strategy, aligned assessment task/s, and a clear marking rubric. The learning task may take the form of a unit or major part of a unit preparation, development of an online unit or major part of a unit, or another significant teaching event or teaching experience.

Unit code: DE8034L

Unit status: Archived (New unit)

Points: 16.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Foundational

Unit discipline: Education Studies

Delivery Mode: Blended

Proposing College: Australian Lutheran College

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate the ability to construct learning and assessment tasks

2.

Conduct and critique teaching in a higher education setting

3.

Report on their own scholarship of learning and teaching

Unit sequence

DE8030L Introduction to Theological Education; DE8031L Principles of Teaching in Higher Education; DE8032L Journey of Theological Education; and DE8033L Integrity in Higher Education.

Pedagogy

Directed study contract

Indicative Bibliography

Reading will be established based on the area that the student will be undertaking. A reading list will be part of the unit proposal. The following may be included.

  • Hunt, Anne, and Graham Harms, eds. Education: what for? Hindmarsh, SA: Australian Theological Forum, 2003.
  • Miller, Michael Robert. Doing more with life: connecting Christian higher education to a call to service. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007.
  • Waggoner, Michael. Sacred and secular tensions in higher education: connecting parallel universities. London: Routledge, 2011.
  • Withrow, Brandon G. Consider no evil: two faith traditions and the problem of academic freedom in religious higher education. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2014.

Assessment

Type Description Word count Weight (%)
Essay

Learning contract 400 words

400 10.0
Critical Review

Critique and report on a learning activity 600 words

600 20.0
Learning Resource

Construct a teaching and learning activity 3000 words equivalent

3000 70.0
Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by John Capper on 19 Oct, 2017

Unit record last updated: 2019-10-31 14:59:18 +1100