Module Code 單元編號 EDA4100 Module Title 單元名稱 RETHINKING AND REIMAGING EDUCATION 教育再思與創念 Module Synopsis 單元概要 This course challenges students to question more deeply about the fundamental question of “What is education?” through an exploratory journey of constructing and reconstructing their ‘dream’ school. It provokes students to think philosophically and critically about the meaning of education, discover possibilities in mainstream education for future practice and go beyond the local realm to embrace global responsibility as part of their own education philosophy. The exploratory journey, an education experimentation in itself, is uniquely designed on the pedagogical premises of experiential learning and flipped classroom. In the journey, students are introduced stimulating materials/ideas, including design thinking, and exposed to different kinds of experience to reimagine and rebuild the dream school they have constructed in creative forms (e.g. physical model, drawing, digital recording) at the beginning of the course. Going through the journey of this course, students engage in the process of ‘unlearning’ or deconstructing their own education experiences and notion of ethical responsibility of teachers, as well as questioning the underlying assumptions of common practice in schools. This process in turn facilitates students to break away from their habitual frame of reference, becoming more open and inspired by local and overseas examples of alternatives and innovations in education. When students register for this course, it is highly important for them to plan for an extra hour before and after the class schedule to accommodate the travel time needed for special outings. Students are also encouraged to take this course to consolidate their learning from the other courses of the Minor Teacher Leadership and Education Innovation offered by the Department of Education Policy and Leadership.