This module encourages the development of Student Teachers as independent critical and reflective thinkers as they select an aspect of Languages teaching and...

Wider Educational Studies - Languages (CCME0019)

This module encourages the development of Student Teachers as independent critical and reflective thinkers as they select an aspect of Languages teaching and learning to explore in depth.  PGCE Languages Student Teachers are supported to select a relevant theme to review systematically, extensively and analytically, which will be based on personal interests and challenges arising from their own practice.  They will demonstrate their understanding and analysis of how Languages are learned in immediate and wider professional contexts, in order to explore, critique and apply their chosen focus.

The module will provide a conceptual and theoretical foundation upon which Student Teachers can build their linguistic knowledge and inter-cultural competencies, and their understanding of the professional context of teaching, enabling them to continue to develop a critical and reflective approach to their practice. Throughout the module, students are encouraged to engage with recent and relevant research and scholarship in learning and teaching as they relate to the field of Languages, to analyse the values underpinning or influencing MFL pedagogic approaches, and to critically and constructively engage with wider policy contexts and initiatives, all with a view to improving practice.  This practice-based enquiry will enable Student Teachers to reflect on and critically evaluate their classroom experience in relation to theoretical perspectives in the context of improving their practice.

The module will focus on exposing students to inter-disciplinary theoretical traditions and schools of thought as well as urban design theoretical and...

Urban Design Research Methodologies (BPLN0110)

The module will focus on exposing students to inter-disciplinary theoretical traditions and schools of thought as well as urban design theoretical and methodological traditions and lines of inquiry, which are dominating and shaping research processes and practices within urban design research and practice, and contributing to its establishment as a research discipline. It will offer students the opportunity to critically learn and discuss research methodological theories, processes, research tools and practices (in-situ, real-time and virtual), including methods of representations, useful in research within the urban design field. Students will critically reflect upon and explore the field of urban design research methodologies, discussing its nature (including ambiguity, pluralism and interdisciplinary scope), and impact on the delivery of unique research agendas and questions.

Building upon this knowledge and critical debates, students will furthermore be offered support on how to design their own unique research proposal, and be guided and given feedback through out its writing process. Overall the module will assist research students to locate themselves within specific traditions and lines of inquiry, and justify their choices of fieldwork practices and tools, and discuss their suitability within their own individual research project/dissertation.

The module is a space for critically reflect and explore the field of urban design research methodologies, and discuss its nature, scope and impact on the delivery of unique research agendas and questions.