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Enhancing Social Inclusion
Postgraduate | LTU-DIS501 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
Consider what community participation means for people with disability. You’ll look at employment, education, using facilities and being active in clubs – considering how policy can support those with disability in enjoying these aspects of life.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Enhancing Social Inclusion
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Interpret and transmit knowledge about current policy and reforms related to social and economic participation for people with disability;
- Compare and contrast ways community participation can be interpreted from different theoretical perspectives;
- Evaluate evidence for how people with a disability are currently participating in the community;
- Critically evaluate outcomes of economic inclusion for people with cognitive disability, including in the areas of education and employment;
- Research and apply different models of social inclusion to a variety of situations involving people with a disability.
- What is social inclusion
- Policies to support inclusion
- Community participation for people with intellectual disabilities - program responses
- Community participation for people with severe and complex disabilities
- Improving access to places and communication
- Enhancing the social inclusion of children from CALD communities
- Community participation through sport
- Children with disabilities in primary and secondary education
- Children with disabilities in primary and secondary education
- Social inclusion: post school and employment options for people with disabilities
In this subject, students will learn how social and economic participation are core to current disability policy and reforms. People with disabilities should have similar expectations to other community members that they can make choices and have opportunities to participate in society by having jobs, going to school or university, using community facilities, participating in political activities or civil society, having friends and becoming members of clubs and associations. In this subject, students will explore the multiple interpretations of community participation and consider different models for working to support participation through individual support or community and systems change. In terms of economic participation, the evidence about outcomes of inclusion in educational setting, and models of post school options and employment support will be examined.
Policy Review - Written report which demonstrates accurate interpretation of policies related to social and economic inclusion for people with disabilities.
Community Participation - Infographic which compares and contrasts the impact that different theoretical perspectives have on social and economic inclusion.
Inclusion Audit - Students to conduct an Inclusion audit on a community organization of their choice. Barriers to inclusion to be itemised.- Policy Review (1500 word equivalent) (30%)
- Community Participation Infographic (1,500-word equivalent) (30%)
- Inclusion Audit (2500 word equivalent) (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
In order to enrol in this subject, students are required to apply to OUA's Postgraduate Single Subjects program (OUA-PSU-GCE).
https://www.open.edu.au/degrees/postgraduate-single-subjects-oua-oua-psu-gce?year=2019
Note: Students wishing to apply for either the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Disability Practice based on the completion of postgraduate single subjects should familiarise themselves with La Trobe's advanced standing policy. A maximum of two (2) or four (4) subjects may be credited to the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma programs, respectively.
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/getting-started/new-students/advanced-standing
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
1 x 10 hours unscheduled online class per week from week 10 to week 22.
3 x 1 hour scheduled online class during semester, from week 10 to week 22
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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