University Handbook
2025 unit information
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Nil
1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per non-placement teaching weeks
1 x 1.5-hour online seminar per non-placement teaching weeks
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.
In this unit, students will be introduced to relevant child safety legislation, policies and practices, with children's rights and professional ethics forming a conceptual framework. Attachment theory, ecological systems theory and psychoanalytic theory inform the unit content and learning experiences which have been designed to prepare pre-service teachers (and allied professionals) for their statutory obligations in preventing, identifying, responding to and reporting suspected child abuse. Understanding issues of heightened vulnerability and the contexts in which child maltreatment occurs will be developed throughout the unit. Trauma-responsive education will be a key feature that informs teaching practices to support the learning and wellbeing of all children, particularly those who have experienced child maltreatment and/or adversity.
Students will be encouraged to apply their developing knowledge and skills in a variety of practical ways, such as designing a child safe policy, incorporating personal safety education in the curriculum, forging community connections and responding to readings and child maltreatment scenarios. These learning experiences support unit assessment work and ultimately strengthen the confidence and capacity needed to create and maintain safe learning environments and responsive interactions that focus on the overall health and wellbeing of children and teachers.
Critically analyse and apply knowledge of children’s rights and legal/ethical professional obligations to create effective child safe policies and practices that will keep children safe in educational settings and support the learning and wellbeing of children.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
Identify and analyse the causes of and contexts (including factors which contribute to issues of heightened vulnerability) in which child maltreatment occurs, and the short- and long-term effects of child maltreatment on children, including advanced knowledge of the nature of trauma.
Apply knowledge to accurately identify instances of child maltreatmentbased on indicators of abuse, risk factors of child maltreatment anddisclosures of abuse in forming a belief on reasonable grounds that promptappropriate responses to reporting child maltreatment, using a case studyscenario.
GLO5: Problem solving
Analyse and evaluate child safety literature to devise appropriateresponses to a range of contemporary child safety issues related to therights of the child, child safe policies, the manifestation of trauma ineducation, child maltreatment cases and personal safety and prevention.
Apply a range of digital literacy skills to engage with and respond to onlinediscussions and activities within a specified time-frame.
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO6: Self-management
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.
The texts and reading list for ECP703 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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