EDU-30072 - Module Specification School of Social Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 25 April 2024
EDU-30072 - Race, Politics and Education
Coordinator: John Howlett Tel: +44 1782 7 34151
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Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25
Available as a Free Standing Elective
Co-requisites
None
Prerequisites
None
Barred Combinations
None
Description for 2024/25
This module will introduce students to key concepts such as 'race', nation and ethnicity and to some of the ways in which these have been theorised. It will explore political issues in the recent (1945-present) history of immigration in Britain including state responses to and public debates about immigration during this period, until present. The critical role of education in such debates is the central core of the module. Current debates over multiculturalism and immigration, as well as racism in the current global political climate of heightened 'security' concerns and preoccupations with 'terrorism' will also be connected to issues of schooling.
1) To introduce students to key concepts such as 'race', nation and ethnicity and to some of the ways in which these have been theorised.2) To explore political issues in the recent (1945-present) history of immigration in Britain including state responses to and public debates about immigration during this period; the critical role of education in such debates is the central core of the module.3) To explore current debates over multiculturalism, immigration and asylum as well as racism in the current global political climate of heightened security; concerns and preoccupations with terrorism and connect these to issues of education.
Intended Learning Outcomes
apply, critique and evaluate key concepts such as 'race', nation, ethnicity, racism and anti-racism: 1summarise and evaluate debates on multiculturalism, immigration and asylum especially as these relate to education in Britain: 1reflect critically on some of the consequences of government agendas on immigration, asylum and terrorism for issues of educational inequality: 1make theortically informed judgments about developments in British national educational policy in relation to race and immigration since the end of the 2nd World War: 1
Study hours
20 hours lectures/seminars; 30 hours instructed (essential) reading and reviewing of online material for the lectures/seminars; 50 hours preparation for essay; 50 hours independent study
School Rules
None
Description of Module Assessment