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FOUNDATION of ED RESOURCES 1-3
Resources for each module can be found on inner pages.
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RESOURCES Pt.2 Here you can find resources from Module 4 onwards.
MODULE XI Festschrift15 -Epimethean Man.pdf (50,6 kB)
Contemporary Issues in Education
Media Literacy
PP- Media_Education[1].pdf (3,4 MB)
PP - Media_Education[1]colour.pdf (4,4 MB)
Media for 21st century.pdf (2,7 MB)
Race
PP - What is Race.pdf (1,9 MB)PP HSE inSchools[Compatibility Mode].pdf (746,3 kB)
Social Sratification
Social Stratification 2013. (2) [Compatibility Mode].pdf (622 kB)
Equity in Education quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/
Health & Safety
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
(de Montaigne, On teaching Philosophy of Education)
News
New items
05/12/2012 17:22
Please note that new files have been added on Globalization. Take the time to review them. Click here.
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How to pass your exam
20/11/2011 21:27
As a general point, Foundations is not about what you believe; it is about how you can defend by rational arguments what you believe plus a clear understanding of the limits to the use of evidence
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Website launched
13/09/2011 00:00
Our website was been launched on 30th September 2010. This site is designed as a resource centre. Feel free to contact us with information on websites or articles which we can upload. Do particpate in the polls and discussion forum.
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INTRODUCTION
Here you can view the introduction to the course by the Co-ordinator.
Microsoft PowerPoint - Introduction to EDFN109B [Compatibility Mode].pdf (611 kB)
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).
- What do you understand by the term “Foundations of Education”? Illustrate with THREE examples.
- Plato considered the possibility of taking children away from a ‘corrupt society’ and giving them a fresh start through a ‘proper education’. Is this possible in today’s society, with particular relevance to Trinidad and Tobago?