Course overview
This course will enable students to identify and explore the structural, social and cultural aspects of educational settings and their impact on learning. Students will learn about sites of learning as communities of practice, each with its own mission, goals, values and purposes as well as participants who enact different roles and identities to achieve shared organisational or institutional outcomes.
Course learning outcomes
- Undertake an organisational/institutional analysis
- Identify and critique aspects of organisational/institutional culture
- Demonstrate an understanding of learning organisation theory
- Explore the processes and outcomes involved in situated learning and communities of learning