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.
2023 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 1 |
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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-EDUPRI(1) Bachelor of Education (Primary)
Corequisites
NilAims and objectives
2. Critically examine and apply principles of social justice
3. Apply knowledge of teaching strategies, responsive to the learning strengths and needs of children 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
On campus
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
On-campus Class | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Live Online Class | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Specified Activities Various | 4 | 12 | 48 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 5.5 | 12 | 66 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.5 | 12 | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
Case Studies | Group | 30% | 3, 4, 6 |
Essay | Individual | 30% | 1, 4 |
Report | Individual | 40 | 2, 5 |
Content
- Concepts of diversity, difference and social justice
- 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.