| What is
the Core Curriculum? |
| The Core Curriculum consists
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Core components across the existing BEd
(Honours) programmes, accompanied by specialist components that
meet the particular professional needs of different groups of students;
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Field Experience, underpinned by a common timetable
across programmeswith common periods of Field Experience activities. |
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| How does
the Core Curriculum benefit students? |
| Students will be able to benefit
from: |
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greater programme coheremce, effectiveness and flexibility; |
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depth and breadth of programmes with more student
choices, designed to meet their professional needs; |
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flexible semester to allow for student exchanges
and immersion; and |
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extension of general education as well as professional
development with a broad perspective. |
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| For whom
and when will the Core Curriculum be implemented? |
| The Core Curriculum is currently implemented
in the four-year full-time BEd (Honours) (Early Childhood Education)
programme. It will be extended to the new cohorts of the other five
BEd (Honours) programmes in 2006/07. |
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| Programme
Details |
| There are five domains in the Core Curriculum
— Discipline Studies, Professional Studies, General Education,
Complementary Studies and Field Experience. |
