Family and Community Contexts

• • Diverse family and community contexts: anti-bias approaches
  • Images of childhood and children’s rights
  • Social justice in early childhood education and care
  • Early childhood settings as democratic forums: pedagogical documentation and research
  • Interrogating diversity and difference
  • Unequal childhoods: poverty, racism and colonialism
  • Critical multiculturalism: honouring reconciliation
  • Reconceptualising the family for social justice
  • Language, gender and sexual identity
  • The ethical educator: anti-bias curriculum and cultural competence

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-MTE-MAS-2023

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject explores contemporary issues of culture, equity, values, and social justice in early childhood pedagogy. Historical and contemporary images of childhood, and their relationship to images of teaching, are examined. Diverse family and community contexts are investigated, with a focus on promoting early childhood settings and services as democratic forums that are welcoming to and respectful of all cultures and beliefs. Children’s rights perspective is emphasised, and anti-bias approaches are analysed with a view towards enhancing reconciliation between diverse cultures and communities. Pre-service teachers reconceptualise their perspectives on families, gender, language, beliefs, and sexual identity to consolidate an ethical approach to the profession of educator.

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Diverse family and community contexts Images of childhood and children’s rights Social justice in early childhood education and care Early childhood settings as democratic forums Interrogating diversity and difference Unequal childhoods Critical multiculturalism: honouring reconciliation Reconceptualising the family for social justice Language, gender and sexual identity The ethical educator

• Critical analysis of an early years service (50%)
• Report on early childhood educator perspectives on social justice issues (50%)

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