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Details for EDU501 Worldviews and Educational Practice

This subject offers advanced insights into worldview assumptions and their impact on life and education. Students learn to assess the alignment and tensions between biblically informed worldviews and contemporary cultural narratives. This unit will explore ways to articulate how a biblically informed perspective influences educational theory and practice, applying worldview analysis to evaluate policies and practices, which is relevant to education.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: EDU501
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Julia Verdouw

Prerequisite

Co-requisite: EDU400/a Biblical Foundations of Education

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of worldview assumptions and their implications on life and educational practice.
  2. Critically analyse and appraise the harmonies and tensions between a biblically informed worldview and current cultural narratives.
  3. Articulate a clear understanding of a biblically-informed worldview and its impact on theory and practice in education.
  4. Apply worldview analysis to the critical evaluation of educational policies and practices.
  5. Critically reflect on the formative nature of cultural stories, liturgies, and practices in life and education.

Subject Content

  1. Living for Christ in a disenchanted age
  2. Educational assumptions?
  3. A vision of the heart
  4. You might not love what you think
  5. The Bible and a Christian worldview
  6. Are we just people of our times?
  7. Worldview and curriculum
  8. A Bible-shaped worldview and its impact on Christian living

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face-to-Face
  • Distance/ Global Online
  • Intensive

 

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  • Critical Reflection (10%)
  • Essay (40%)
  • Critical Analysis (50%)

Prescribed Text

Goheen, M. W., & Bartholomew, C. G. (2008). Living at the crossroads: An Introduction to Christian worldview. Baker Academic.