ED2990:03
Education for Cultural Diversity
| Townsville, Cairns, External | HECS Band 1 |
13 hours lectures, 24 hours tutorials/interactive workshops. Semester 2 internal (Townsville and Cairns campus). External in Semester 2 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 as cultural beings. Students will use these understandings to explore systemic and structural inequalities within education and develop appropriate classroom policies and practices which work towards possibilities for the future.
Learning Objectives:
- relate effectively to others in cross-cultural situations within lectures, tutorials and interactive workshops and vicariously through readings;
- describe and critique features of educational policies designed to promote non-sexist, non-racist and other non-discriminatory ways of relating to others;
- identify, value and respond to individual learning needs based on approaches to culture which incorporate gender, ‘race’, ethnicity, language and locality;
- describe and apply in their assessment and tutorial discussions the best available educational theory, research and practice in education for cultural diversity.
Assessment by:
On-campus – group presentation (10%); essay (40%); examination (50%).
RATEP students – topic responses (50%); essay (50%).