Developing Inclusive Learning and Teaching Practice
Duration
- One Semester
Contact hours
- 8 hours per week
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Prerequisites
None
Available Semester 1 2022
Corequisites
NoneAims and objectives
Aim:
This elective unit aims to integrate theory of diversity and inclusion with real life experience to enhance your ability to create inclusive learning environments and support all students.
This unit challenges your identity as a teacher and what has informed your teaching practice to date. It provides an opportunity to reflect on your own worldviews and unconscious biases and how these affect the choices you make in teaching, and to share with, and learn from, other participants as different perspectives emerge. This unit will then allow you to apply the learning from the other units in a new manner, rather than simply applying the theory from the other units without challenging the context, which has shaped your behaviour to date.
Practical activities and tools will be explored to increase your knowledge of resources, strategies and approaches for inclusive learning and teaching.
Through the analysis of different theories and paradigms you will be exposed to some of the personal, interpersonal and organisational challenges and opportunities in creating inclusive learning environments.
Learning Objectives:
1. Articulate and critically analyse notions of diversity, inclusivity and discourses of difference.
2. Critically reflect on personal, interpersonal, professional and/or organisational approaches to working within an inclusive tertiary educational context.
3. Evaluate and apply concepts to the design of an inclusive learning and teaching environment that respects individual learners and diverse learning communities.
4. Interpret and apply understandings of diversity, interculturality, inclusivity to the exploration of key issues and challenges.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Workshop | 3 | 12 | 36 |
Online Contact Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 5 | 12 | 60 |
TOTAL | 96 hours |
Hawthorn Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Contact Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 8 | 12 | 96 |
TOTAL | 96 hours |
Assessment
100% continuous
Assessment Tasks
Paper Individual 30%
Project Individual/Group 40%
Paper Individual 30%
General skills outcomes
Key Generic Skills:
· Analysis skills
· Communications skills
· Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
· Ability to work independently
· Analysis skills
· Communications skills
· Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
· Ability to work independently
Content
Content (topics):
• Conceptualising diversity, difference and inclusivity•
• Diversity in the context of higher education
• Notions of diversity, inclusivity and discourse of difference
• Strategies and considerations for framing intercultural and inclusive teaching practices
• Challenging non-inclusive practices in an educational framework
• Conceptualising diversity, difference and inclusivity•
• Diversity in the context of higher education
• Notions of diversity, inclusivity and discourse of difference
• Strategies and considerations for framing intercultural and inclusive teaching practices
• Challenging non-inclusive practices in an educational framework
Study resources
- Text books.
Text books
There is no required textbook for this unit.
All recommended readings are available online.
All recommended readings are available online.