Year 1 Professional Studies

Learning Outcomes Have an understanding the relationship between theory and practice of the criteria used to investigate the effectiveness of schools Begin to develop a philosophy of teaching and learning Have the ability to plan and evaluate a collaborative peer activity Begin to develop an appreciation of ECM and its implications for schools

Have an understanding the relationship between theory and practice of the criteria used to investigate the effectiveness of schools

Begin to develop a philosophy of teaching and learning

Have the ability to plan and evaluate a collaborative peer activity

Begin to develop an appreciation of ECM and its implications for schools

Assessment Portfolio containing a reflective statement of learning and development with completed supporting directed activities, plans and evaluations of tasks. 2000 words equivalent, 100% Deadline: 16/3/09

Portfolio containing a reflective statement of learning and development with completed supporting directed activities, plans and evaluations of tasks. 2000 words equivalent, 100%

Deadline: 16/3/09

EDUCATION? SCHOOLS? and TEACHING? Should we be here at all? Introduction to Teaching

SO WHAT HAS EDUCATION EVER DONE FOR YOU? Does it equip your mind to make sense of the physical, social and cultural world? Does it fulfil your mind? Will it get you a job? What are your future educational needs? How can they be met? (from Sewell and Newman in Education Studies ed Sharp, Ward, Hankin (2006) )

Does it equip your mind to make sense of the physical, social and cultural world?

Does it fulfil your mind?

Will it get you a job?

What are your future educational needs?

How can they be met?

(from Sewell and Newman in Education Studies ed Sharp, Ward, Hankin (2006) )

Education Good or Ill? “ We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought” Bertrand Russell 1920s quoted in Craft 2001 “Creativity in Education”

“ We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought”

Bertrand Russell 1920s quoted in Craft 2001 “Creativity in Education”

Perspectives on Education The Philosophy of Education What is it? From whose point of view? The Sociology of Education How is it related to institutions and social structures? The Psychology of Education How do we understand the educators and the educated?

The Philosophy of Education

What is it? From whose point of view?

The Sociology of Education

How is it related to institutions and social structures?

The Psychology of Education

How do we understand the educators and the educated?

AND YOU! “ The children themselves are the living aim and end of our teaching. It is their thought, their knowledge, their character and development, which make the purpose of our existence as schools and teachers. And it is the modes of their learning and understanding, their physical growth and social needs, which in the end determine the success or failure of our methods of teaching”. Isaacs S. 1932 The Children We Teach London ULP

“ The children themselves are the living aim and end of our teaching. It is their thought, their knowledge, their character and development, which make the purpose of our existence as schools and teachers. And it is the modes of their learning and understanding, their physical growth and social needs, which in the end determine the success or failure of our methods of teaching”.

Isaacs S. 1932 The Children We Teach London ULP

What is Education For? To promote economic development? To preserve society’s culture? To produce good citizens? (from Winch and Gough 1999)

To promote economic development?

To preserve society’s culture?

To produce good citizens?

(from Winch and Gough 1999)

What is the Function of Education ? To produce independent, critical thinkers? To give individuals a secure cultural background? To give individuals the ability to take part in society through an occupation? To maintain order! (from Winch and Gough “Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education” 1999 and Bartlett, Burton, Peim “Introduction to Education Studies “2001)

To produce independent, critical thinkers?

To give individuals a secure cultural background?

To give individuals the ability to take part in society through an occupation?

To maintain order!

(from Winch and Gough “Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education” 1999 and Bartlett, Burton, Peim “Introduction to Education Studies “2001)

What is the Purpose of Primary Teaching? Instruction? Socialisation? Welfare? Therapy? Classification? (Arthur, Grainger, Wray 2006)

Instruction?

Socialisation?

Welfare? Therapy?

Classification?

(Arthur, Grainger, Wray 2006)

Questions in the Philosophy of Education Education as a family of processes concerned with the intentional transmission of something valuable in a morally unobjectionable manner (Peters in Tibble “The Study of Education” 1966)

Education as a family of processes

concerned with the intentional transmission of something valuable in a morally unobjectionable manner (Peters in Tibble “The Study of Education” 1966)

Questions in the Philosophy of Education What is valuable? Who decides? What about the unintentional? Who does the transmitting? How? What is morally unobjectionable? Who says so?

What is valuable? Who decides?

What about the unintentional?

Who does the transmitting? How?

What is morally unobjectionable? Who says so?

Some Explosive Issues What is the difference between education and training? Have you come here to be trained as a teacher or educated as a teacher? What is the role of autonomy, liberty, individualism and personal identity? respect for people? How is this affected by culture? How do you make decisions about School Organisation, Classroom Management, Curriculum eg equality of access, discipline, authority, curriculum content?

What is the difference between education and training? Have you come here to be trained as a teacher or educated as a teacher?

What is the role of autonomy, liberty, individualism and personal identity? respect for people? How is this affected by culture?

How do you make decisions about School Organisation, Classroom Management, Curriculum

eg equality of access, discipline, authority, curriculum content?

EDUCATION v TRAINING Training helps you to follow rules Education is reflective and questioning

Training helps you to follow rules

Education is reflective and questioning

What is an Educator? Someone who initiates others into forms of thought and awareness which will transform their world and how they feel about it (Peters in Tibble “The Study of Education” 1966)

Someone who initiates others into forms of thought and awareness which will transform their world and how they feel about it (Peters in Tibble “The Study of Education” 1966)

What is an Educator? Should your world and how you feel about it be transformed before you can start achieving this with others? What is the value of reflective practice?

Should your world and how you feel

about it be transformed before you

can start achieving this with others?

What is the value of reflective

practice?

Questions in the Sociology of Education Education is all that goes on in society which involves teaching and learning. This includes the intended and the unintended. Education is the way in which we acquire the physical, moral and social capacities demanded by the group into which we are born and in which we shall function. (Swift in “The Sociology of Education”1969)

Education is all that goes on in society which involves teaching and learning.

This includes the intended and the unintended.

Education is the way in which we acquire the physical, moral and social capacities demanded by the group into which we are born and in which we shall function. (Swift in “The Sociology of Education”1969)

Questions in the Sociology of Education Why schools? And by implication why teachers? Alternatives? “Modern society has set aside particular individuals with the special task (educating) to which they will devote a major part of their working energy and has established an occupational category of “teacher”. (Swift in “The Sociology of Education”1969)

Why schools? And by implication why teachers?

Alternatives?

“Modern society has set aside particular individuals with the special task (educating) to which they will devote a major part of their working energy and has established an occupational category of “teacher”. (Swift in “The Sociology of Education”1969)

Questions in the Sociology of Education Everything we need to know to function in our society can be learned. The human infant is receptive to experience, beliefs and skills The human infant has a period of dependency on adults

Everything we need to know to function in our society can be learned.

The human infant is receptive to experience, beliefs and skills

The human infant has a period of dependency on adults

Questions in the Philosophy of Schooling Should we be celebrating diversity? Why are schools the same? Should schools be reproducing or changing society? What is the balance? Should institutions have fluid boundaries? Is education elitist? Everyone is an educated person, it is an aspect of life. (from Usher and Edwards “Postmodernism and Education” 1994)

Should we be celebrating diversity?

Why are schools the same?

Should schools be reproducing or changing society? What is the balance?

Should institutions have fluid boundaries?

Is education elitist? Everyone is an educated person, it is an aspect of life.

(from Usher and Edwards “Postmodernism and Education” 1994)

Some Explosive Issues Is modern industrial society so complex that we need an organised method of preparing children for adult life, this cannot be left to parents? Parents do not have the time or expertise to educate children effectively.

Is modern industrial society so complex that we need an organised method of preparing children for adult life, this cannot be left to parents?

Parents do not have the time or expertise to educate children effectively.

Some Explosive Issues What are schools for? social mobility? equality of opportunity? training for industrial society? producing “well informed people”? producing “cultured” and “emotionally intelligent” people ?

What are schools for?

social mobility?

equality of opportunity?

training for industrial society?

producing “well informed people”?

producing “cultured” and “emotionally intelligent” people ?

Some Explosive Issues How do teachers make educational decisions when there are competing pressures and expectations from the government families employers local communities?

How do teachers make educational decisions when there are competing pressures and expectations from

the government

families

employers

local communities?

Questions in the Psychology of Education Is the most effective way of understanding children the understanding of them through the understanding of yourself? Are either of these achievable?

Is the most effective way of understanding children the understanding of them through the understanding of yourself?

Are either of these achievable?

Some Question in the Psychology of Education Do you need to understand someone if you want them to carry out tasks? Should the teacher be a major resource for making and sustaining fruitful relationships between children and children and adults by defending the integrity of each individual’s personality? (See Morris in Tibble 1966)

Do you need to understand someone if you want them to carry out tasks?

Should the teacher be a major resource for making and sustaining fruitful relationships between children and children and adults by defending the integrity of each individual’s personality?

(See Morris in Tibble 1966)

Some Explosive Issues Is the teacher’s role to provide a detached but sympathetic understanding of the pupils And An intellectual objectivity with moral conviction? (Morris)

Is the teacher’s role to provide a detached but sympathetic understanding of the pupils

And

An intellectual objectivity with moral conviction? (Morris)

ITS YOUR TURN You are the Headteacher of a primary School Complete this paragraph Send your child to our school because……….

You are the Headteacher of a primary School

Complete this paragraph

Send your child to our school because……….