James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2024

ED4995 - Education Across Culturally Diverse Contexts

Mixed attendance offering available only to RATEP students.

Subject Description

Pre-service teachers will engage with culturally-diverse schools and classrooms, with consideration of broader regional, national and international contexts. The subject attends to the development of intercultural understandings for culturally-inclusive teaching and learning practice. The subject also consolidates learnings from across the degree and requires pre-service teachers to critically reflect on pre-conceptions, pedagogical and ethical practice, professional experience, research and policy related to cultural diversity. Pre-service teachers will engage with historical and contemporary issues related to cultural diversity including nationalism, multiculturalism, and ethnic, racial, gender and religious diversity. Pre-service teachers will critique and challenge social constructions and normative assumptions of cultural diversity, and take a reflexive stance on their own identity and agency as a graduate teacher to effect change for cultural inclusion. Pre-service teachers will have opportunities to apply teaching for cultural diversity in a safe and supportive environment.

Learning Outcomes

• 1. apply understanding of the role of education to respond to contemporary local, national and global cultural diversity issues
• 2. demonstrate professional communication skills to build productive and collaborative partnerships for learning
• 3. employ personal and professional identities and ethical frameworks to analyse cultural practices in school contexts
• 4. evaluate school community contexts from a cultural diversity perspective
• 5. apply knowledge of learners and cultural diversity to respond ethically to students' diverse cultural needs

Subject Assessment

• Written > Critical appraisal/review - (25%) - Individual
• Written > Learning plan - (50%) - Individual
• Written > Self-reflection task - (25%) - Individual

Note that minor variations might occur due to the continuous subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.

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