Inclusive Practice in Education

Unit code: ECE6008 | Study level: Postgraduate
Credit points
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
City Campus
Online Self-Paced
VU Brisbane
VU Sydney
Prerequisites
ECE6009 - Early Childhood Development Learning and Teaching
ECE6010 - Place, Play and the Languages of Science
(Or equivalent to be determined by unit coordinator)
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
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Overview

This unit provides an opportunity for pre-service teachers to conceptualise their role as activist and reflective practitioners and to extend their understanding of the child as capable within the contexts of diversity, inclusion, and equity, including the perspectives of children with special rights. It builds on the recognition that all children hold fundamental rights, for example, the right to be heard, to contribute, and to learn. Students will evaluate children’s rights through the lenses of diversity, equity, and social justice and apply advanced theoretical frameworks to responsive teaching practices. They will also synthesise relevant early childhood policy to inform curriculum decision-making and to develop a foundational understanding of social justice as it relates to early childhood teacher identity.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate the ways children’s rights intersect with diversity, equity, and social justice in contemporary early childhood context.
  2. Critically synthesise early childhood policy on inclusion and diversity to evaluate its implications for curriculum across early childhood settings, incorporating reflective analysis to inform advanced professional judgement.
  3. Design a responsive early childhood curriculum that integrates collaborative teaching practices, group learning structures, and co constructed pedagogies to advance inclusion, equity, and diversity across diverse educational contexts.
  4. Critically interrogate how diverse perspectives are co constructed through collaborative learning, shared group experiences, and the principles of justice, inclusion, equity, and difference in early childhood contexts.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Assignment
|
Grade: 30%
An infographic poster outlining inclusion and the enactment of children’s rights accompanied by two reflections.
Assessment type: Presentation
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Grade: 35%
Video presentation and a critical reflection, followed by a live rapid-fire viva voce for individual students.
Assessment type: Exercise
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Grade: 35%
Group Task: A well being plan, followed by an in-class presentation and individual student’s responses to questions.

For students enrolled in the OSP mode, secure assessments will be conducted during OSP seminar hours.

Required reading

All readings will be available through VU Collaborate

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Education
EGEC | Graduate diploma | Duration: 1 year

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