Module: EDU6114-20 Policy, Power and Ideology with Reference to Education

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Vandana Singh

Module Tutor Contact Details: v.singh@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

You must either take this module or EDU6113-20 Nepal Fieldwork, with reference to Education as a required part of your award. This module will provide you with opportunity to carry out a sustained investigation into an aspect of community education in Nepal. You will develop skills related to critical discourse analysis research that will help you identify relations of power and dominant ideologies. In addition, you will learn how to select texts appropriately, how to analyse data in an international context and how to ensure your work is as valid as possible. You will evaluate a range of texts relating to education and development in Nepal. Above all, you will develop an awareness of your responsibility as a local, national and international citizen with a global perspective coupled with recognition of the need for sensitivity, flexibility and adaptability to work and live cross-culturally

To ensure students are able to complete this module alongside modules that require fieldwork, this module will follow a pattern of delivery commensurate with the required* module: Nepal Fieldwork, with reference to Education

2.Outline syllabus

Outline syllabus

• Preparatory seminars

• Research methods

• Developing a corpus of texts

• Analysing texts using basic critical discourse analysis

• Identifying ideologies

• Establishing the relationship between text level and discourse level discourses

• Debrief

3.Teaching and learning activities

Key skills:

• Data collection for a foreign context/cultural sensitivity

• Critical discourse analysis research methods

• Critical thinking

• Constructing and evidencing an academic argument

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Critical discourse analysis

• % Weighting: 100%