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DVST6902: Development: Communication and Education
2021 unit information
Development is an international and intercultural process that seeks to both implement projects with specific objectives, and change the way people live and think. Language, as communication both enables such projects and is a source of incomprehension, misunderstanding and exclusion within them. Education as the longer term attempt to change the thinking and values of people and communities also has language at its heart. This unit examines the nature and politics of language and education and their relationship within development.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Anthropology
| Code | DVST6902 |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Corequisites:
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| Prohibitions:
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SSCP6901 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate an understanding of the nature of language and its variation within different social contexts
- LO2. demonstrate an understanding of variations in language being intimately linked to the political and social imperatives of those contexts
- LO3. demonstrate an understanding of the role and politics of language in the making of the nation state
- LO4. appreciate the specific nature of development discourse and its role in the constitution of development contexts, with particular reference to education
- LO5. appreciate the continuing significance of communication, education and the nation state in the delivery and politics of development
- LO6. mobilise these understandings in the critical assessment of specific case studies in the intersection of language, education and development.
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