This subject requires you to do a practical placement, please see Additional Requirements for more information.
Understanding Culturally Diverse Learning and Development
UndergraduateLTU-EDU2ULD2025
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 7 Sept 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Start dates
- 28 Apr 2025,
- 15 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $578
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Understanding Culturally Diverse Learning and Development
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Understand the need for different theoretical perspectives for different contexts of children's development.
- Demonstrate understanding of a range of contemporary theories to analyse children's learning and development in socially, culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
- Demonstrate research informed practices of critiquing contemporary theories of child development to understand children's learning and development in socially, culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
- What is Learning and Development?
- Engaging with Complexity - World Views, Meaning Making, and Knowledge Creation
- Challenging Assumptions - Considering Alternative Perspectives about Children's Learning and Development
- Teaching and Learning in Diverse Education Contexts
This subject encourages preservice teachers to view learning and development from a range of perspectives, including the perspectives of socially, culturally and linguistically diverse children and families. Preservice teachers will learn to use theory to analyse learning and development in contemporary early childhood education, and to think critically about child development. This subject includes a 10-day professional experience placement in a birth-to-two years early education and care setting.
- Diagnostic assessment task (400 words) Completed within the first two weeks of term (10%)
- Critical reading response (1600 words) (40%)
- Plan, implement, and reflect on a play event for children aged birth to two years. (2000 words equivalence) (50%)
- Professional Placement - (10 days birth to 2 years) Hurdle requirement: 10 DAYS placement is compulsory as this is an accreditation requirement. (0%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-ECE-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in the following course: EBECEO
Additional requirements
- Placement requirements - Professional Placement - (10 days birth to 2 years) Hurdle requirement: 10 DAYS placement is compulsory as this is an accreditation requirement.
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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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
UndergraduateLAT-ECE-DEG