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Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood (EDUC91028)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
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 |
|---|---|
| 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