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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (EDUC91028)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Term 4
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
Availability | Term 4 - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject explores the concepts of global childhoods and contemporary multicultural societies with a focus on Indigenous Worldviews and sustainable communities. This includes engaging with understandings about the past, present and future childhoods, relationships between teachers’ values and beliefs and their pedagogies, and of how culture, beliefs and values shape childhoods through educational policy and practices. Issues in relation to policy, curriculum, quality, pedagogical practices, and assessments will be critically analysed. Contemporary issues around social justice, equity and diversity, and intercultural relationships will be interrogated.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Interrogate and debate history and philosophy in early childhood education locally and globally including understanding the foundations on which the early childhood sector in Australia is based
- Illustrate the relationships between early childhood education and wider societal histories and philosophies
- Elucidate the influence of personal and professional values and beliefs on pedagogical practices
- Cross-examine the local and global context of early childhood education policy and relationship to current issues in early childhood
Generic skills
- Problem solving
- Evidence based decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
- Inquiry and research
- Active and participatory citizenship
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Poster presentation: Contemporary issue in Early Childhood
| Week 3 | 30% |
Video presentation: My image of a child
| Week 5 | 40% |
Written proposal: Childhood and a contemporary issue
| Week 7 | 30% |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Term 4 - Online
Coordinators Catherine Hamm, Sonja Arndt, and Angela Molloy Murphy Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours (may include virtual office hours through chat/zoom, video mail bag, discussion boards, flip grids, and interactive readings) Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 10 October 2022 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the online platform and may like to take the opportunity to read through preliminary information about the subject and the services and support that is available to them. Students are encouraged to use this time to also introduce themselves to peers and teaching staff and to learn about those they will be studying with throughout the term. Time commitment for pre‐teaching activities is approximately 3 hours. Teaching period 17 October 2022 to 11 December 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 October 2022 Census date 4 November 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 25 November 2022 Assessment period ends 18 December 2022 Term 4 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Teaching
Last updated: 10 February 2024