Pre-requisites

None.

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Articulate a clear understanding of the nature of worldviews and their formation.

• Critically evaluate the current practices in your own life and in your educational workplaces, identifying key beliefs underlying these practices

• Synthesise and communicate the key perspectives and dimensions of a biblically-informed view of the world and life, and how this informs and shapes educational practices.

• Critically analyse the history and outworkings of the major world and life views within contemporary Australian society and their implications for educational practice.

Unit Description

This unit provides students with a critical investigation of the often hidden role that worldviews play in human life and specifically in education. Students will be able to critically evaluate worldviews that are embedded in educational practice in order to be more effective in achieving the learning goals of their school communities in a way that is faithful to their Christian faith.

This unit explores the nature and formation of worldviews in educational practice. The aim of this unit is the development of a critical competence that enables students to ground their educational practices firmly in the faith they profess. Specifically the unit will cover

• The nature and formation of our assumptions

• The relationship of worldviews to educational contexts

• Scriptural themes fundamental to the development of a biblically informed worldview

• Critical evaluation of the nature and role of the worldviews that shape contemporary educational practices, including those of Christian educators

• Strategies for Christian educators of dealing with worldviews embedded in culture

• The contrast of secular world views with Biblical ones in the areas of the Purpose of education, the nature of knowing and being fully human

This unit is delivered as a split intensive. The class will meet for two intensives, one per school term with the ability to communicate to your peers and lecturer electronically in-between. All learning will happen through your readings and in a face-to-face setting.

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Unit offerings

Face to face: (Demand based)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.