ECE360 - Protective Education and Child Well-Being

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Nicole Downes
Cohort rule:This unit is only available to students enrolled in E330, E333, E334
Prerequisite:

Must be enrolled in E330, E333 or E334.

Corequisite:

Students must have completed 10 Credit points.

Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 3-hour seminar per non-placement teaching weeks

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

1 x 1.5-hour online seminar per non-placement teaching weeks

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

In this unit, students will be introduced to relevant legislation, policies and practices essential to securing children's safety, with children's rights and professional ethics forming a conceptual framework. Child maltreatment and child protection will provide a major focus together with appropriate responses via policies, ethical practices, statutory requirements and preventive curriculum work. Attendant professional roles and obligations will be considered. Key topics include:

  • Children's rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child;
  • Australian Early Childhood Association's Code of Ethics: professional implications;
  • Child maltreatment and its impact on child development, e.g. trauma and learning;
  • Professional and legal responsibilities for notification and support;
  • Types of child maltreatment, their dynamics, and availability of community resources;
  • Indicators of the various types of child abuse; supportive handling of disclosures of abuse, responding appropriately via child abuse prevention; policy, protocols and personal safety teaching.
ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Use critical thinking skills to apply knowledge of child rights (UN CRC), legislation and other government documents relating to child safety (for example Victorian Child Safe Standards, ECA Code of Ethics) to create effective policies and practices that support the safety and wellbeing of children.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Use comprehensive understanding to explain duty of care and mandatory reporting obligations under Victorian legislation, including knowledge of all forms of child maltreatment and reporting pathways

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Use discipline specific knowledge to critically analyse a child maltreatment case study and devise a plan to appropriately respond to the safety concern through informed action

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Apply knowledge of the impact of trauma on learning to develop educational environments, activities and teaching practices that are effective in supporting the safety, development and wellbeing of traumatised children

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO5

Use knowledge of child protection to critically evaluate and analyse to devise appropriate responses to a range of contemporary child safety issues

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Child Safe Policy 1600 words
or equivalent
40% Week 6
Assessment 2 - Response to Child Maltreatment 1600 words
or equivalent
40% Week 10
Assessment 3 - Online Activities 800 words
or equivalent
20% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ECE360
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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