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Understanding Culturally Diverse Learning and Development
UndergraduateLTU-EDU2ULD2023
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- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 6 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Understanding Culturally Diverse Learning and Development
About this subject
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 examines early childhood education in socially, culturally and linguistically diverse communities. You will learn to use theory to analyse learning and development in contemporary early childhood education and how to think critically about child development. This subject has 10 days professional expenses placement in a birth to two age group.
- Part A: Critical Reading Response diagnostic task (Approx 200 words) (10%). This assessment task will be undertaken within the first 2 weeks of the term. Part B: Critical Reading Response (Approx 1800 words) (40%) (50%)
- Play Event (2000 words) (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-2023 - Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
Others
Prerequisites: Students must be admitted into 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