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EDEC4007: Partnering with Families on the Margins
2025 unit information
This unit builds on earlier program content on family partnerships by focusing specifically on partnering with marginalised families. That children from these families stand to benefit most from attending quality early childhood education services, yet are least likely to attend such services, will be critically explored. Using social justice principles this unit aims to develop students' knowledge, skills and disposition to engage and work effectively with marginalised families, as leaders of socially just, inclusive early childhood education and in interdisciplinary ways. Completion of a 20-hour service learning placement is a requirement for the successful completion of this unit.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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EDEC3010 and EDEC3011 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Use theory and research to demonstrate understanding of the critical role family and community partnerships play in early childhood education.
- LO2. Critically reflect on the diversity of families in Australia and the importance of inclusion in developing authentic, respectful partnerships with all families.
- LO3. Demonstrate understanding of regulatory and professional requirements regarding partnering with families and communities.
- LO4. Explain the multiple and complex barriers that impede the equitable participation of families who are marginalised in early childhood education programs
- LO5. Identify the complex needs of families who experience disadvantage, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, families living with poverty, mental illness, drug & alcohol dependence, and/or family violence, and immigrant or refugee families
- LO6. Critically reflect on your own perceptions about families who are marginalised, and your professional and ethical responsibility as teachers and leaders of socially just early childhood education to intentionally engage and partner with these families
- LO7. Develop within-centre and outreach strategies that are intended to engage, and are inclusive of, families who are marginalised
- LO8. Appreciate the complexities involved in integrated service provision and/or inter-professional work
- LO9. Effectively work in partnership with families to support effective transitions to the ECEC service and to school
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Assessment total wordcount is 4500, given fieldwork component.
