Education and Muslim Communities (EDPS0053)

This module aims to link work in education and international development with insights from gender and education and relate these to educational policy and...

Gender, Education and Development (EDPS0048)

This module aims to link work in education and international development with insights from gender and education and relate these to educational policy and practice. It is designed to develop an understanding of the circumstances in low and middle income countries under which gender affects rights to, rights in and rights through education. The module looks at the gendered dimensions of processes of teaching and learning. It considers sexual divisions in education and the gendered political economy of family, work, political action and cultural production. Particular attention is given to gender and violence in school settings. Throughout the module there will be a concern to explore gender sensitive strategies and alternative approaches in education to overcome social division and inequalities. 

This module will explore literacy, or literacies, across the life-course, examining reading and writing (and whatever else we may consider to be literacies...

Literacies Across the Lifecourse (EDPS0022)

This module will explore literacy, or literacies, across the life-course, examining reading and writing (and whatever else we may consider to be literacies beyond reading and writing) as lifelong and lifewide. We will examine theoretical approaches to literacy and its role in our lives, including, but not exclusively, education, work, faith, family and political life. In doing so, we will look at language history, language change, language variety, multilingualism, ‘literary’ literacy, multimodality and digital literacies, considering ideas such as the dominance or invisibility of certain practices, the relationships between ‘in-school’ and ‘out-of-school’ literacies and social fears of ‘illiteracy’. The ways in which reading and writing are conceptualized or defined determines research, policy and pedagogy and these in turn affect our conceptualisations of literacy/literacies. This module aims to examine this dynamic as part of understanding the powers, pleasures and perils of literacies across the life-course.