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ES1204 ‘Reflections on Autobiography’
Monday 3.00pm
Stripe Lecture Room (SLR)
Module Leader: Marie Morgan
Tutors: Wayne Veck, Marie Morgan, Simon Boxley, Derek Bunyard
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Last updated 28.11.11.
Learning Outcomes
a) Demonstrate engagement with texts and ideas in relation to student experience
b) Demonstrate reflection on experiences and the wider contexts in which they take place
c) Communicate experiences of texts and ideas within and/or beyond education as appropriate
d) Show knowledge and understanding of specialist terminology
e) Demonstrate requisite research skills in gathering, summarizing and presenting evidence including proficiency in referencing and academic conventions
This module is designed to enable you to reflect on your own educational experiences and give you an opportunity to work collaboratively with your fellow students. It will also provide you with an introduction to some of the skills and content which you need to be successful through the Education Studies programmes.
In the first half of the module, and in preparation for your first assignment, you will be required to reflect on your past educational experiences in relation to two approaches to teaching and learning. In weeks 1 and 2 you will study experiential approaches to teaching and learning and in weeks 3 and 4 you will study didactic approaches to teaching and learning. Your essay requires you to draw on the ideas, themes and concepts studied during these weeks in order to relate them to your own educational experiences. Guidance for the essays will be given during the sessions.
In Week 5 we will turn out attention to introducing and discussing the academic conventions that you will be required to adhere to during your time at University.
In Week 6 there will be a session from Careers Services. This session will introduce you to the Careers Services that are available to you during your time at Winchester. There will be information about the resources you can draw upon and the support, advice and guidance that will be available to you throughout your degree. The purpose of this session is to ensure that you are aware of the services and resources offered by Careers Services so that you can draw upon their expertise and support in whichever way is most appropriate to you over the coming years.
In week 7 the focus changes to autobiographical imagery. In weeks 7-11 you will study content in preparation for your final assignment for this module. The final assignment includes a group presentation in which 12.
Weekly Outline
Week 1: Introduction:
Experiential Approach (1) – Wayne Veck
This week your understanding of the themes and concepts associated with the experiential approach will be explored in relation to the work of Carl Rogers in Freedom to Learn.
Essential Reading:
Rogers, C. & Freiberg, H. J. (1994) Freedom to learn (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan/Merrill.
Week 2: Experiential Approach (2) – Wayne Veck
This week you will be introduced to some of the ideas, concepts and practices associated with one of two opposing approaches to teaching and learning. The experiential approach will be considered through the work of A. S. Neill.
Essential Reading:
Neill, A.S. (1973) Summerhill. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Further reading
Appleton, M. (2002) Free-Range Childhood: self-regulation at Summerhill School, Loughton: Gale Centre publications.
Croall, J. (1983) Neill of Summerhill. The Permanent Rebel, London: Routledge Kegan Paul.
Hart, H. (1970) Summerhill: For and Against, New York: Hart.
Hemmings, R. (1972) Fifty Years of Freedom: A Study of the Development of the Ideas of A.S. Neill, London: Unwin Books.
Summerhill website: www.summerhillschool.co.uk/pages/
Week 3: Didactic Approach (1) – Marie Morgan
This week you will be introduced to the didactic approach to teaching and learning through the work of John Amos Comenius
Essential Reading:
Comenius, J. A. (1910) The Great Didactic, London: Adam and Charles Black (P57-60, 61-65, 287-294)
Comenius, J. A. (1956) School of Infancy, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (P101-110)
Further Reading:
Bowen, J. (1981) A History of Western Education, Vol. 3. New York: St. Martin’s Press
Comenius, J.A. (1910) The Great Didactic, London: A&C Black.
Curren, R. (2000) Aristotle on the necessity of public education, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield
Davidson, T. (1892) Great Educators – Aristotle, London: Heinmann
Kant, I. (1960) Education, USA: Michigan Press
Laurie, S. (1884) Jon Amos Comenius, Bishop of Moravians. His Life and Educational Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres
Meyer, A. (1975) Grandmasters of Educational Thought London: McGraw Hill
Murphy, D, (1995) Comenius, Blackrock: Irish Academic Press
Newman, J. (1955) The Idea of a University, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (P52-3)
Rusk, R. (1965) Doctrines of the Great Educators London: Methuen and Co
Week 4: Didactic Approach (2) and essay workshop – Marie Morgan
This week we will re-visit some of the main themes of the didactic approach to teaching and learning and begin to make comparisons between the experiential and didactic approaches in preparation for you essay.
Essential and Further Reading:
As for week 3
And hand-outs will be provided in the session
Week 5: Academic Conventions (Marie Morgan)
This week is devoted to taking you through some of the academic conventions that you will be required to adhere to throughout your time at University.
During the final part of this week’s session there will be an opportunity to ask any further questions you may have about the essay and to discuss any issues in relation to the essay that have arisen during the planning/drafting process or in light of this week’s session. You might find it helpful if you have your plan and/or a copy of your draft essay with you for this session.
Essential Reading:
There is no essential reading for this week – hand-outs will be given in the session.
Week 6: Careers Advice Session (Careers Services)
This session will be run by Careers Services and will provide you with information about the Services they offer and careers support available to you during your time at Winchester. The session will include: an introduction to Careers Services; a tour of the Careers Centre in MB40 and the resources available there; an introduction to the Winchester Passport; an introduction to enhancing employability.
Essential Reading:
There is no essential reading for this week.
Week 7: Introduction to Autobiography and Imagery – exchanging meaning using imagery: Derek Bunyard and Simon Boxley
In this session we begin to explore ways in which imagery may enable us to represent our educational experiences and ideas - here are some to start with.
Week 8: Talking to ourselves and talking about ourselves – creating autobiographical montages - select here for a theoretical context review.
We model the construction of a composite image of an individual using simple media sources. Group work then follows intended to tease out possible ways of responding and working – the expectation is that all students will attempt to construct an autobiographical montage that they are prepared to discuss with others at the start of week 9.
Week 9: From Personal to Public Meanings
Group discussion of individual montages, followed by some general conclusions to be drawn about the use of imagery. Introductory lecture on mass-media representation – just what do mass-media images mean? By way of preparation, read Part Two of the montage notes used last week and use Google images to investigate the work of some of the artists named there. The next two attachements are resource notes on semiotics that you will need to refer to in developing your assignment piece - we will be working through these next week - Barthes and Semiotic Notes.
Week 10: Modelling Myth
Tutor presentation of two worked examples taken from Roland Barthes’ collection of essays entitled Mythologies. These will model the approach expected for your second assignment. Barthes' account of 'Myth Today' - and a more general background.
e-version of 'toys'
Week 11: Educational Myths
Schooling
Looking at schools, educational settings, and childhood; a tutor-led activity that will consider examples taken from a variety of media sources.
Week 12: Assessment
Assessment
There are 2 assignments for this module
Assignment 1: Essay (1,500 words): Show an understanding of the differences between the experiential and didactic approaches to education in relation to your own educational experiences.
Hand in: Monday Week 6 (31st October). Essays will be collected in before the Careers session begins in week 6, alternatively you can hand your essay to Catherine (St. Grimbald’s room 14) by 3pm).
Hand back: Monday of Week 9 (21st November).
Assignment 2: Working in groups of three or four, select a mass-media image of your choice that has educational implications. Submit the image to the same process of meaning-interrogation modelled for you in week 10. Identify two other social contexts in which the same myth occurs. Write a collective 1000 word description of the public meanings being constructed by these images and offer your personal responses.
Presentation Dates: Monday of Week 12 (12th December).
Hand back dates: Beginning of Semester One
Contacting Tutors
Please email the appropriate tutor/s if you have queries regarding the module content or assignments. If you have a general inquiry about the module or are not sure which tutor to contact, please contact the module leader (Marie Morgan).
Derek.Bunyard@winchester.ac.uk
