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ED5894:03

Youth, Cultural Diversity and Education

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials. Semester 2.

Available ONLY to students enrolled in the Master of Teaching.

Staff:

Ms L Devow,

Ms H McDonald.

Secondary education in Australia is viewed through the lens of culture and identity, with a specific focus on "race", class, gender and rurality. Students explore systemic and structural inequalities within education and develop appropriate classroom policies and practices which work towards possibilities for the future. Themes explored will include: the distinctiveness of youth culture; youth culture and other forms of cultural diversity; identity and resistance to schooling; culturally inclusive curriculum and pedagogy.

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 youth culture and constructions of identity through gender, "race", ethnicity, language, locality;

assess the significance for education of current problems facing young people in a context of social, cultural and economic diversity and change;

describe and apply in their assessment and workshop/tutorial discussions the best available educational theory, research and practice in education for cultural diversity in secondary schooling.

Assessment by end-of-semester examination (50%); negotiated individual project and presentation (50%).