Advocacy and Social Justice
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- On-campus: 24 hours Face to face Swinburne online - Nil
2021 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
AND
237.50 Credit Points in spk(s): BA-EDUPRI - Bachelor of Education (Primary) OR 237.50 Credit Points in spk(s): BA-EDUPRI1 - Bachelor of Education (Primary) OR 237.50 Credit Points in spk(s): BA-EDUEC - Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) OR 237.50 Credit Points in spk(s): BA-EDUEC2 - Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) OR 237.50 Credit Points in spk(s): BA-EDECP - Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) OR 237.50 Credit Points in spk(s): BA-EDECPS - Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary)
OR
Admission into BA-EDU - Bachelor of Education OR Admission into 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, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
This unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including:
Type (On-campus) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Workshop | 3 | 8 | 24 |
Online Contact | N/A | ||
Specified Learning Activities Prescribed readings Online activities | 6 | 8 | 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 |
General skills outcomes
• Team work Skills.
• Analysis Skills.
• Problem Solving Skills.
• Communication Skills.
• Ability to work independently.
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.