Postgraduate Course: Disruption and Disaffection in School - Prevention and Response (EDUA11129)
Course Outline
School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | The aim of this course is to enable course members to develop their own accounts of how disruption and disaffection develops in and out of school and to explore appropriate responses at classroom, school, neighbourhood and authority level. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Course members will have:
1. Examined pupil and teacher accounts, theoretical models and research findings;
2. Analysed the role of the organisation and curriculum of the school in the construction of problem behaviour;
3. Reviewed the research and literature on deviance and on educational inclusion and exclusion;
4. Considered systems for preventing and for responding to disruptive or delinquent behaviour, both within and outwith the school;
5. Explored the role of a range of agencies and the demands of inter-agency working;
6. Implemented and evaluated a workplace based project focussing on the prevention of disruption and the promotion of positive behaviour.
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Additional Class Delivery Information |
Twenty four hours contact teaching, delivered flexibly. |
Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Gale Macleod
Tel: (0131 6)51 6448
Email: gale.macleod@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Lorraine Denholm
Tel: (0131 6)51 6433
Email: lorraine.denholm@ed.ac.uk |
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