ED2990:04
Education for Cultural Diversity
Townsville, Cairns, External
HECS Band 1
26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials/interactive workshops. Semester 2 internal (Townsville and Cairns campus). External in Semester 1 for RATEP students only (Townsville campus).
Staff: Ms H McDonald (Townsville campus); Dr P Fitzsimons (Cairns campus).
Education in Australia is viewed through the lens of cultural diversity, with a specific focus on race, class, gender and rurality. Students will address a range of theoretical and professional issues and concepts designed to extend the understandings they have gained from previous studies, practicum and their own experiences. Students will use these understandings to explore systemic and structural inequalities within education and work towards possibilities for the future.
Learning Objectives:
- students will participate in ways that are inclusive and equitable for all learning partners in this subject;
- students will use selected theories of
culture to:
(i) describe diversity within Australian society in general and classrooms in particular;
(ii) explore themselves as cultural beings;
(iii) analyse relationships between systemic and structural inequalities and cultural diversity in Australian schools;
(iv) examine a range of curriculum and policy interventions in Australian education that have addressed the issue of diversity from different perspectives;. - derive classroom practices and strategies that are appropriate to the diverse nature of Australian classrooms.
Assessment by: On-campus – group presentation (10-20%); essay (40-50%); examination (40%). RATEP students – personal reflection (40%); essay (40%); examination (20%).