ECE360 - Protective Education and Child Well-Being

Unit details

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Year:

2022 unit information

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Last updated: 4 March 2022

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online), CBD*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Nicole Downes
Cohort rule:

Nil

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

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.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

Trimester 1:
1 x 2-hour seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online workshop per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

Trimester 1:
2 x cloud conferences per trimester 
1 x 2-hour online workshop per week
2 x 1-hour online class per trimester (recordings provided)

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute

 

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 criticaly anayse 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

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

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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