Unit Content
Outcomes
- Integrate one’s personal attitude regarding disability to Christian faith as well as profession as an education;
- Critically analyse the impact of cross cultural and indigenous issues on inclusive education;
- Identify in detail ‘at risk’ factors in children;
- Construct learning experiences incorporating ICT for inclusive education including the application of IEPs;
- Critically evaluate the role of government regulation in policy and management of student welfare and people with disability in particular.
Subject Content
- Child and adolescent development, including Australian Indigenous Communities and marginalised groups’ educational success; life skills development; differentiated instruction, integrated curriculum.
- Inclusivity: including the history of segregation, integration, inclusion; strategies to support inclusive participation and engagement in classroom activities that support students’ well-being and safety; Christian worldviews; social expectations of disabled youth, elite, gifted and talented; language delays and disorders; referral processes; whole school policies to support students with special needs; understanding the range of applications and adaptive technologies available to support students with special needs;
- Sociology of family, including parenting styles; rural, remote and urban communities, open and closed religious communities, Australian Indigenous communities; and control and regulation in the home; effect of puberty and adolescence.
- Education, work and welfare, including high school retention, transition to vocational education and higher education, accelerated learning; state intervention, the stolen generation; child care and Australian social policy.
- Working and communicating with family and the community, including contracts and IEP’s; jointly negotiated plans for management of behaviour and learning; whole school behaviour management policies; bullying, harassment, violent behaviour, truancy Identification, problem-solving, peer adjudication; Strategies for engaging parents and caregivers in the educative process, child protection and substitute care; working with teacher’s aides and external professionals.
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Face-to-Face
- Intensive
- Distance/ Global Online
Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.
Assessment Methods
- Minor Essay (25%)
- Essay and Podcast (25%)
- Major Essay (50%)
Prescribed Text
- References will include the most current curriculum requirements for schools.
Check with the instructor each semester before purchasing any prescribed texts or representative references
