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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
TCH10516 - Constructions of Childhood OR TCH20002 - Children, Families and Communities OR enrolled in - Graduate Diploma in Education (Early Childhood)
Unit aim
Provides students with an understanding of the key issues, debates and challenges in contemporary early childhood education and care. Students develop skills to investigate and critically examine issues from a range of perspectives, and argue their position on these issues with reference to authoritative literature and their personal approach/philosophy of learning, development and teaching within early childhood and care.
Unit content
Module 1: Contemporary issues in early childhood education and care
- Analysing what creates an issue within early childhood education and care? Identifying current issues in early childhood education and care (a broad sweep)
- Investigating issues of importance to the profession and educators
- Investigating issues of importance to parents and carers
- Investigating issues of importance to children
- Investigating issues identified by the media, or making 'news'
- Investigating issues of importance to local/national or international communities
Module 2: Personal position on a contemporary issue in early childhood education and care
- Reflecting on personal approach/philosophy of ECEC against contemporary issues highlighted in Module 1
- Identifying the range of positions on a selected ECEC issue to establish your own position
- Positioning a personal view on a selected issue within ECEC
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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| 1 | identify a range of issues important in early childhood education and care | |||||||
| 2 | analyse a range of positions highlighted in authoritative literature on contemporary issues related to early childhood education and care | |||||||
| 3 | work collaboratively within a team through the planning and implementation of a group project that creates scenarios of contemporary issues related to early childhood education and care and present the scenario as a role play. | |||||||
| 4 | critically reflect on their personal approach/philosophy of learning, development and teaching within early childhood education and care in relation to a personal position on contemporary issues | |||||||
| 5 | argue a position they will take on current issues in early childhood education and care, in relation to the literature. | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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identify a range of issues important in early childhood education and care
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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analyse a range of positions highlighted in authoritative literature on contemporary issues related to early childhood education and care
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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work collaboratively within a team through the planning and implementation of a group project that creates scenarios of contemporary issues related to early childhood education and care and present the scenario as a role play.
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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critically reflect on their personal approach/philosophy of learning, development and teaching within early childhood education and care in relation to a personal position on contemporary issues
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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argue a position they will take on current issues in early childhood education and care, in relation to the literature.
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.