The learning design implemented in this exemplar focuses on a "participatory pedagogy" approach. Students are encouraged to interact with their peers as they complete their four individually based assessable tasks. They are supported by a subject web site, reading material and a scaffold for examining the literature.

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In this unit students are encouraged to participate in the construction of knowledge and actively pursue the negotiation of what knowledge is constructed and how this is done...

A web site provides an area for knowledges to be ‘contested’...

Website, Lecturer, four-key questions; booklet modeling use of framework; 'Buddies'...

The design has been used as an external learning program and as a support tool for face-to-face teaching ...

Develop an understanding of the contingent nature of all knowledge systems; develop an understanding of the history of the western scientific tradition; ...

Based on a 'response paper', discussion contributions, web page created by each student and contributions to joint glossary and bibliography...

The technology has been able to successfully deliver another space in which knowledges can be contested and location of the student is not central...

Lecturers in the unit aim to provide students with a voice in a classroom of altered power relations, where the privileged position of teacher is challenged...

This learning design was developed collaboratively by a team...

This subject has been the focus of a PHD study...

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Comment from the Project Team...

The evaluation results from this project suggest that the learning design has the potential to foster high quality learning...