Module Code 單元編號 PFS6058 Module Title 單元名稱 KEY ISSUES IN EDUCATION IN GLOBAL CONTEXT Module Synopsis 單元概要 This course revisits several key issues in education in the light of the contemporary global context, characterized by accelerated rates of globalization, widening inequality, and increasingly multicultural societies. The nature, rate and extent of change across the globe suggests the importance of reconsidering some of the perennial issues in education in the context of these changes. These issues include: education aims and purposes in global context; education and society, or, schooling in its broader economic, social and cultural context; contemporary issues and debates in teaching and learning; knowledge, truth and the curriculum, and the teacher’s role with respect to student learning; values and ethics in multicultural education contexts; change in education, and the role of education in development. Through a sustained and advanced level of engagement with these core educational issues, the course aims to enable students to understand better their import in the changing contemporary global context of education, and thence to be able to make more thoughtful, responsible and better informed decisions in their educational research and practice. A principal objective of the course is that students should develop a theoretical point of view informing their research and practice that is integrated, consistent, and morally and practically defensible.