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Foundation Module 1 encourages student teachers to engage with key theorists and thinkers that provide a critical framework for thinking and learning in education. Examples include: Bourdieu in Sociology of Education; Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner in Psychology of Education; and Froebel and Dewey, in Philosophy of Education.
All courses will draw heavily from relevant national and international research in the area, enabling newly-qualified teachers to facilitate quality teaching and learning for all pupils. Recognising the need to prepare students to benefit fully from their Student Placement, particular emphasis is placed upon Psychology of Education in Year 1. This course is designed specifically to provide students with the empirical knowledge to understand the process of learning, both for themselves and for the children in the classes in which they are placed.
An important objective of this module is strengthening student teachers’ reflexivity on their own professional learning and that of their pupils, and to prepare student teachers to support their pupils in achieving their full potential. This is achieved through engagement with the following topics covered in this module:
• Sociology of Education: Types of Schooling; Society, Culture and Identity; Norms, Values and Roles; and the Hidden Curriculum.
• Psychology of Education: Learning Styles; Stages of Cognitive Development and Critical Reflection.
• Philosophy of Education as a global phenomenon and as reflection on experience.
• History of Education: Irish Education pre-1831; History of Irish Primary Education in the modern era 1831; present, historical perspectives on great educationalists including Froebel, Dewey, Montessori, Gandhi, Tagore, Nyerere, and Freire.
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FOUNDATION MODULE 1
Semester 1
