Bachelor of Education Honours in Curriculum Studies
Education, Training and Development - Schooling
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose:
The Bachelor of Education Honours in Curriculum (BEd Hons (Curriculum studies)) is the first Postgraduate qualification in education. It aims to prepare learners for research-based postgraduate studies in Curriculum studies. The program is designed to consolidate and deepen learners' knowledge of Curriculum studies and to enhance their research capacity in the methodology and techniques of Curriculum studies.
The curriculum for the qualification includes modules on:
- Theories of Curriculum Studies
- Curriculum Design and Development
- Curriculum Management
- Curriculum Innovation and Evaluation
- Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Strategies
- Educational Research modules
- Research project
This qualification enables learners to achieve a high level of theoretical engagement and intellectual independence in research.
Rationale:
The national, regional, and international relevance and competitiveness of this qualification lie in the fact that it is open to learners from both South Africa and other countries. This openness enhances the diversity of perspectives and experiences within the program, contributing to a dynamic learning environment and enriching the overall educational experience.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge to enable engagement with and critique of current literature on practices in the field, discipline or practice of Curriculum Studies.
- Conduct independent research and competence in scholarly exposition.
- Design and implement a strategy for the processing and management of information, to conduct a comprehensive review of leading and current research in an area of specialisation to produce significant insights.
- Use the resources of academic and professional or occupational discourses to communicate and defend substantial ideas that are the products of research or development in an area of specialisation### and use a range of advanced and specialised skills and discourses appropriate to a field, discipline or practice, communicate with a variety of audiences with different levels of knowledge or expertise.
- Develop his or her learning strategies, which sustain independent learning and academic or professional development### and can interact effectively within the professional group as a means of enhancing knowledge.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Identify relevant and appropriate terminologies in the field of Curriculum Studies.
- Identify the scope of knowledge in Curriculum Studies.
- Explain the experience of current arguments and views on Curriculum Studies.
- Conceptualise current literature on the broad field of Curriculum Studies.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Prepare a topic related to the significant subject.
- Explain convincingly why the research is relevant.
- Formulate the research problem, aim, questions, and hypotheses (where applicable).
- Demonstrate how and why paradigms, research designs, and methodology are relevant to the study.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Identify a research problem and topic in the field of Physics education.
- Design a logical research proposal that relates to the application of Curriculum Studies to research problems.
- Develop related research objectives that utilize knowledge of Curriculum Studies.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Apply the knowledge and skills to articulate and explain the processes.
- Identify characteristics of a suitable interviewing atmosphere and environment within parameters of Curriculum Studies for use in research.
- Identify and use research instruments relevant to research in Curriculum Studies.
- Explain and justify the methodological approaches in the utilization of a chosen research project in Curriculum Studies.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Report and explain research approach or process and findings and disseminate research knowledge in a logically structured manner in an oral and in written form.
- Budget and use time, reading researches such as journals, e-books, other research findings and present a logical argument from own research for compiling a valid research argument into a mini-dissertation.
- Communicate research findings into a mini-dissertation using a given format, to nominated examiners in the field of Curriculum Studies.
- Understand the comments of examiners and satisfactorily correct mini-dissertation.
Integrated Assessment:
- Assessment in the university is an integral part of teaching and learning.
- Formative coursework assessment includes at least two tests and two assignments.
- Formative assessments provide feedback on teaching and learning, while summative assessment provides final judgment on a learner's performance.
- The research project will be internally and externally assessed by academic experts.
- Final marks per module follow a University policy where 50% is for coursework and 50% for summative assessment or written exams.
By adhering to these assessment criteria, learners will demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Curriculum Studies and its application in research projects.
Qualification Details
- Type
- Honours Degree
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 120
- SAQA Source
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