Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- a wide variety of secondary source material relating to effecting change through education and public history, including theoretical frameworks used in the field.
- a wide variety of primary sources relating to effecting change through education and public history.
- effecting change through education and public history, in particular the ways in which history and the humanities can be leveraged to effect change.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- engage with historiography and theoretical frameworks, contributing to the debates relating to effecting change through education and public history and its relationship to the wider world.
- undertake a thorough critical analysis and assessment of a variety of textual, visual and material culture sources.
- apply your developed knowledge, structuring your ideas and research findings into well-ordered assignments.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- use to good effect textual, visual and material culture sources, synthesising this material to develop cogent and persuasive arguments.
- research complex historical questions and communicate your findings convincingly and concisely in assignments.
- utilise and develop your time-management skills.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Completion of assessment task | 100 |
Wider reading or practice | 52 |
Workshops | 24 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 100 |
Seminar | 24 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Nina Simon (2010). The Participatory Museum. Museum 2.0.
Steve Slack (2020). Interpreting Heritage: A Guide to Planning and Practice, Routledge Guide to Practice in Museums, Galleries and Heritage. Routledge.
Joanna McIntyre, Fran Abrams (2020). Refugee Education: Theorising Practice in Schools. Routledge.
Peter Serdyukov, Mark Ryan (2007). Writing Effective Lesson Plans: The 5-Star Approach. Pearson.
Jessica Abel (2015). Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio. Random House.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Written assignment | 50% |