EDF5843 · Moral and ethical childhoods

Overview

This unit will enable you to critically reflect, analyse and challenge your own philosophy, ethics and practice when gaining insight to educationally care with children and families. You will research, analyse and critique different theories and understandings of children’s social and emotional, moral and ethical development that fosters their health, wellbeing and safety. Thereby, you will be able to acknowledge children as complex moral and ethical global beings connected to diverse communities, incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. Moreover, you will be able to provide opportunities for educators and children to challenge their own moral and ethical underpinnings and decision-making as citizens of a global world that embraces cultural diversity and inclusion.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. critically reflect on questions of philosophy, ethics and practice to gain insights that support, inform and enrich decision-making about children’s learning, health, wellbeing and safety
2. gain knowledge about how children are moral and ethical global beings who belong to diverse communities incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives
3. analyse and critique theories of children’s social and emotional, moral and ethical development
4. provide opportunities to investigate complex ideas and concepts that are relevant to children’s moral and ethical lives and their communities.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.