Postgraduate CUR-MTEC507-2023
Family and Community Contexts
Consider what it takes to create an ethical approach to teaching – considering diversity in family and community. On your journey, you’ll compare historical and contemporary ideals of childhood. Think about how these interact with education.
$2,306 $2,556
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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
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Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 29 May 2023
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Subject details
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- examine historical and contemporary images of childhood, and explain their relationship to images of teaching
- research family and community contexts, with a focus on promoting early childhood settings as democratic forums that are welcoming to and respectful of all cultures, cultural histories, languages and beliefs
- defend a children’s rights perspective, supporting anti-bias approaches and enhancing reconciliation between diverse cultures and communities
- interpret the role of the educator within a framework of ethical, confidential relationships in diverse communities
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- 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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