EDU301 - Culture, Diversity and Participation in Education

Unit details

Year	2025 unit information
Enrolment modes:	Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):	1
EFTSL value:	0.125
Unit Chair:	Trimester 1: Brandi Fox
Prerequisite:	Nil
Corequisite:	Nil
Incompatible with:	Nil
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:	1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:	1 x 2-hour online seminar per week
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.

Content

This unit explores how, in work, play and our everyday lives, we interact with a diverse people. Despite always having been one of the most culturally diverse places in the world, since colonisation in Australia, diversity has often been met with tensions arising from who is included or excluded and the reasons why. This unit highlights the tensions of how the teacher and student bodies are increasingly diverse, and how the inflexible, and often Eurocentric schooling system, policies and society forces them to navigate often unsafe and exclusionary parts. From a strengths-based perspective, where diversity is to be celebrated, students will learn about the impacts that culture, gender, sexuality, ability, age, religion, socioeconomic background and many other intersections on how they experience education. This unit focuses on pedagogical responsiveness that enables safety and inclusion and uses a variety of pedagogical interactions, the arts and popular culture, critical theory, research and policy, to provoke students to consider how we participate in both formal and informal educational spaces. The unit presents that inclusive design principles for learning is responsive, meets students where they are to welcome diversity, enable empathy and create belonging. Above all, the unit will increase participants' capacity to make a social justice impact through developing engaging and responsive resources in their planned professional practice including non-traditional educational settings. It will also provide the skills to give and receive feedback, think critically, creatively and in interdisciplinary ways, about responding to audience needs, and the politics of who we include and exclude.

Learning Outcomes

ULO	These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can:	Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
ULO1	Synthesise and apply knowledge of inclusive teaching and learning principles with a critical perspective on culture, diversity and educational participation to design a resource that will meet the needs of an authentic educational for culturally diverse communities including First Nations, LGBTQIA+, migrant, refugees and asylum seekers	GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO5: Problem solving GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO2	Draw on feedback to reflect on the usefulness of the resource and recommend improvements in the design addressing the needs of a culturally diverse communities for example First Nations, LGBTQIA+, migrant, refugees and asylum seekers	GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management GLO8: Global citizenship
ULO3	Critically reflect on barriers to participation and on the inclusive pedagogies that can be drawn on to dismantle these barriers in education and beyond for First Nations, LGBTQIA+, migrant, refugees and asylum seekers communities	GLO4: Critical thinking  GLO5: Problem solving GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment Description	Student output	Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit)	Indicative due week
Assessment 1:  Part 1: Resource Outline Part 2: Resource	2600 words or equivalent  (Part 1: 600 words or equivalent Part 2: 2000 words or equivalent)	60% total (Part 1: 10% Part 2: 50%)	Part 1: Week 4 Part 2: Week 8
Assessment 2: Reflective essay	1400 words	40%	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 EDU301 can be found via the University Library.

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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