Courses

Spring 2007:
ED6394: Biographical Explorations of Teaching and Learning

Course Description: This is one of three alternative culminating courses for students on the all-course Master’s programme in Teaching and Learning. It can also be taken as an open elective by students on the thesis, project or folio routes or in other programmes. Course participants will engage with a range of creative works (music, visual art, drama, literary and personal writing, media pieces) that explore themes in teaching and learning. They will also develop creative pieces of their own in the medium of their choice. Student work will be presented in a public forum at the end of the course.

Winter 2007:
Education 6105: Social and Cultural Difference and Education

Course Description: This course examines the intersection of multiple and inter-related markers or dimensions of social and cultural difference and institutional, particularly educational, practices. The course provides ways of analyzing and understanding differences which challenge monolithic, monocultural and discriminatory assumptions. Furthermore, it is an opportunity to contemplate one's own ethical location in relation to difference. The course also explores the ways in which such insights might provide direction for renewed, culturally responsive and respectful policy, reflective and anti-discriminatory teaching, more inclusive and socially critical curriculum, and more equitable institutional practices.

Education 6668: Current Issues in Second Language Education

Course Description: This course will be project-based with each student completing a project on a current issue of interest to him or her. Some examples of current issues are: intensive language programs; the use of L1 in the L2 classroom; immersion vs. core French; content-based language teaching; learning disabilities and second language education; second language learning and the internet; aboriginal language education; heritage language education; media and second language education; classroom based assessment; the teaching of writing, literature, grammar, etc.; experiential language learning; critical pedagogy and second language learning; the integration of L2 learners in the L1 classroom; cooperative learning and second language education.

ED6100 (on campus version):
http://webct.mun.ca:8900/SCRIPT/65605200502/scripts/serve_home (Winter 2006)

ED6100 (online version):
http://webct.mun.ca:8900/SCRIPT/69354200502/scripts/serve_home (Winter 2006)

ED6909 Narrative Approaches to Teaching, Learning and Research (Spring 2006)

Readers and writers both struggle to interpret and perform within a common language shareable imaginative worlds. (Toni Morrison) Narrative is a primary way of making sense of the world. It can enable us to make connections between creative and intellectual work, personal experience and social history. This course will draw on literature, film, autobiography and popular culture as well as more traditional theoretical texts to examine the role of the narrative imagination in teaching, learning and research. Teaching and learning are broadly defined and the course may be useful to anyone with an interest in education, life history or autobiography. Research is also broadly defined as any reflective practice that helps us understand our lives and work better. Course participants will explore some of the socio-historical, cultural and personal narratives they bring to their work, and examine some possible ways of gathering and interpreting their own stories or those of others.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Elizabeth Yeoman
Office: E4023
Phone: (709) 737-3411
E-mail: eyeoman@mun.ca