Advocacy and Social Justice
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- On-campus: 24 hours Face to face Swinburne online - Nil
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2022 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
OR
EDU30003 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3E
AND
237.5 cp from:
BA-EDUPRI1 Bachelor of Education (Primary)
OR
BA-EDUEC Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
OR
BA-EDECP Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary)
OR
BA-EDUPRI Bachelor of Education (Primary)
OR
BA-EDUEC2 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) [SOL]
OR
BA-EDECPS Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary)
OR
BA-EDUECT Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Teaching)
OR
BA-EDUECTS Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Teaching)
OR
BA-EDU Bachelor of Education
OR
BA-EDUS Bachelor of Education
Corequisites
NilAims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Identify, describe and define categories of diversity and difference.
2. Critically examine and apply principles of social justice.
3. Apply knowledge of teaching strategies, responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds.
4. Critically reflect to identify and challenge their own and others’ bias and stereotypes from an informed and principled perspective.
5. Demonstrate and evaluate an understanding of strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students including knowledge of appropriate legislative requirements.
6. Work collaboratively to develop strategies for advocacy and activism to promote the rights, interests and needs of children and their families in relation to equity and inclusion.
Courses with unit
BA-EDUPR Bachelor of Education (Primary)
BA-EDUEC/EDUEC2 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
BA-EDUS Bachelor of Education
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type (On-campus) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Seminar | 2 | 6 | 12 |
Online Contact Online | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities Prescribed readings Online activities | 4 | 12 | 48 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Readings Assignment preparation | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
TOTAL | 150 hours / 12.5 credit points |
Type (SOL) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact | N/A | ||
Online Contact | N/A | ||
Specified Learning Activities Prescribed readings Online activities | 6 | 12 | 72 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Readings Assignment preparation | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
TOTAL | 150 hours / 12.5 credit points |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Essay | Individual | 30% | 1, 4 |
Report | Individual | 40% | 2, 5 |
Case Study | Group | 30% | 3, 4, 6 |
Content
• Bias and stereotypes and related curriculum.
• Cultural competence – values and attitudes.
• Children as active contributors to communities – case studies.
• Federal and jurisdictional policies related to diversity and difference.
• Contemporary Australian Indigenous issues and perspectives.
• Inclusion.
• Advocacy, activism and the role of the professional.
• Tools and dispositions for advocacy.
• Ethics and ethical decision making, including attention to the ECA (Early Childhood Australia) Code of Ethics.
• Children’s agency.
• Critical theory and pedagogy.
• UN convention on the rights of the child.
Study resources
- Reading materials.