EEO320 - Humanities Education Across the Primary Levels
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
|---|---|
| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Cloud (online) Please note: 2023 will be the final offer for this unit |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Brandi Fox |
| Prerequisite: | ECE212 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ECE465, ECS310, ECS501, EEO210, EEO310, EEO311, ELE501 |
| 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 - cloud: | Attendance at 2 cloud conferences per trimester, 1 x 2-hour online workshop per week, 5 x 1-hour online class per trimester (recordings provided) |
Content
This unit explores Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) and has the aim of expanding students’ understandings of humanities resources, curriculum development and teaching within a primary classroom, where learners and teachers are positioned as inquirers in the world. This unit aims to increase student’s awareness of the diversity of peoples and groups who live in Australia, and the different ways in which world-views are developed. To this end, critical civics and citizenship understandings are constructed through experiences of Indigenous, Local, National, Asian, and Global and Sustainability perspectives. This unit focuses with special interest on children in the primary grades.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Plan an interdisciplinary unit of work, demonstrating the sequencing of effective HASS learning activities | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO2 | Identify and critically evaluate a range of resources for the teaching of primary Humanities curriculum content knowledge and skills | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO3 | Apply current theoretical perspectives to justify and position best practices in HASS teaching and learning | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO4 | Plan appropriate and effective learning activities for humanities education | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO5 | Locate and enact curriculum policy instruction, such as Victorian Curriculum, within curriculum planning practices | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy |
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 - Learning Resource Collection | 2400 words or equivalent | 60% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2 (Group) - Inquiry unit planning | 1600 words or equivalent per student | 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 the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: EEO320 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.