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ED505R: PARTICIPATIVE APPROACHES TO LITERACY DIFFICULTIES (2020-2021)

Last modified: 05 Aug 2021 13:04


Course Overview

This course aims to enable participants to reflect critically on their own professional, participative practice and to consider a range of influences and perspectives in the field of literacy difficulties.  In particular, it will include a critical consideration of the following:

  • the principles underpinning effective participative practice;
  • models of participation;
  • the distinction between ‘deep’ and ‘functional’ collaboration;
  • the role of underlying values and attitudes in the genesis of participative practice;
  • the impact of power relations, and institutional factors on participation and learning;
  • strategies for enabling participation;
  • pupil and parent perspectives on learning and participation
  • interprofessional working, learning and participation
  • different theoretical perspectives on literacy difficulties, including historical developments
  • perspectives, needs and rights of pupils and parents
  • importance of emotions in learning
  • strategies for making the curriculum more accessible
  • the wider implications of literacy difficulties within an inclusive and collaborative educational framework

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Kirsten Darling-Mcquistan

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This is a core course within the PG award in Inclusive Practice. Participants should have a commitment to current philosophy of Inclusion and to the principles of inclusive educational practice for all learners, including those who have additional support needs. They should have access to an educational setting for the purposes of undertaking the assessment task and for gaining practical experience.

 

This course provides an essential background and foundation for those participants undertaking a programme of study leading to either the Certificate or Diploma in Inclusive Practice. 

The course aims to:

 

examine critically the principles underpinning participative approaches and literacy difficulties, focusing on how pupil participation can be enabled

  • through learning and teaching within an inclusive environment;
  • provide a conceptual framework for understanding and enhancing interpersonal relationships and skills;
  • provide a theoretical framework for understanding literacy difficulties within an inclusive context underpinned by social justice and equality of access;
  • encourage critical analysis of the factors that are thought to influence pupil learning and professional effectiveness from both child and adult points of view;
  • enable participants to reflect critically on participative dimensions of their own practice, including personal knowledge, skills, attitudes and understanding
  • encourage participants to contribute to, and draw from, theory, reflection and feedback from colleagues in order to develop their professional practice in managing literacy across the curriculum in a participatory environment

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 6000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Proposal

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 0
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Feedback

200 Words

Peer and tutor feedback will be given. Peer feedback through ‘live’ teaching tutorial (in groups). Tutor feedback via email.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandKnowledge and Understanding of the key principles underpinning effective participative practice and literacy difficulties
ReflectionEvaluateIntellectual Skills that enable you to evaluate your own practice, reflect critically on it, and make insightful links between theory and practice.
ReflectionApplyPractical Skills by being able to develop your professional performance through reading, critical self-evaluation and reflection in order to enhance the quality of the educational experience provid
ProceduralCreateTransferable skills by being able to be resourceful and positive, and adopting a problem-solving approach based on critical analysis of assumptions, ideas, perspectives and theories.
 

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