Undergraduate Course: Children, Education and Social Justice (EDUA08092)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The Children, Education and Social Justice course is designed to develop your thinking around questions of social justice in childhood practice and education.
We hope that through this course you will strengthen your analytical and academic skills. The course will enable you to continue to develop your reflective, questioning and critical approach to thinking about your own work with children, families and other practitioners.
The course has three interconnected themes:
- Personal and professional self-reflection
- Theories and dimensions of social justice (e.g. gender, sexuality, social class, race, ethnicity, dis/ability)
- Social Justice in childhood practice, education and inter-agency working
THIS COURSE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS ON BA CHILDHOOD PRACTICE.
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| Course description |
This course aims to presents early childhood and educational settings as significant institutional sites in the lives of children. It introduces students questions of social justice in pedagogy, assessment & curriculum and links these to current educational contexts in Scotland and internationally. Students will be asked to investigate and analyse a range of policy that is relevant to the intersection between school and social services. The course also introduces students to a range of social justice issues and how they may be manifest in schooling.
The course will take an interdisciplinary and multi-agency perspective, encouraging students to undertake critical analysis of the place and purpose of schooling in both the broader context of children's lives and of the students' own workplaces. Through analysis of the intersecting research and policy for school and social services, the students will be encouraged to undertake critical and creative evaluation of their own services and practice. This course builds upon the theory, research and management evident in courses undertaken by the students in the previous year of study.
***This is a core course of the BA Childhood Practice. Students from other programmes need to contact the course organiser before they enrol on the course.***
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to students on the BA Childhood Practice. Please note that there is a maximum number of students who may be enrolled on the course and we are currently not able to accept students from other programmes. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Children, Education and Social Justice is assessed via one summative 2,000 word essay.
¿Drawing on relevant theory, research and policy, critically evaluate how your workplace addresses an aspect of social justice in relation to children and their education. Based on this evaluation, make specific¿recommendations on how improvements can be made to your workplace so that it may advance social justice |
| Feedback |
¿¿Students have the opportunity to receive feedback on their essay plans through the course assessment workshop. ¿Formal written feedback will be given to each student on their assessments at the end of the course. This written feedback is based on a course-specific marking rubric.¿¿¿ |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the inter-relationship between children, education (in the broad context of children's lives), social services, issues of social justice and the students¿ own workplaces, especially in terms of the student¿s leadership responsibilities
- Identify key theories and concepts that underpin understandings of social justice and evaluate how these manifest in¿current policy on education and social services for children.
- ¿¿Analyse research on education and social services to identify their impact on children and childhood and social justice.¿
- .¿Articulate and justify a professional position on the potential for education to advance social justice that is informed by current research on children and childhood, education and social services.¿
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Reading List
| https://eu01.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/readinglist/lists/43376410410002466 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
A. Research and Enquiry
Graduates of the University will be able to create new knowledge and opportunities for learning through the process of research and enquiry. This will be understood in terms of the following:
-be able to identify, define and analyse problems and identify or create processes to solve them
- be able to exercise critical judgment in creating new understanding
-be ready to ask key questions and exercise rational enquiry
-be able to critically assess existing understanding and the limitations of their
own knowledge and recognise the need to regularly challenge all knowledge
-search for, evaluate and use information to develop their knowledge and
understanding
- have an informed respect for the principles, methods, standards, values and
boundaries of their discipline(s) and the capacity to question these
-understand economic, legal, social, cultural and environmental issues in the
use of information
-recognise the importance of reflecting on their learning experiences and be
aware of their own learning style
B. Personal and Intellectual Autonomy
Graduates of the University will be able to work independently and sustainably, in a way that is informed by openness, curiosity and a desire to meet new challenges. This will be understood in terms of the following:
-be open to new ideas, methods and ways of thinking
-be creative and imaginative thinkers
-be able to identify processes and strategies for learning
-be independent learners who take responsibility for their own learning, and
are committed to continuous reflection, self-evaluation and self-improvement
- be able to make decisions on the basis of rigorous and independent thought,
taking into account ethical and professional issues
-be able to use collaboration and debate effectively to test, modify and
strengthen their own views
-be intellectually curious and able to sustain intellectual interest
-be able to respond effectively to unfamiliar problems in unfamiliar contexts
-have a personal vision and goals and be able to work towards these in a
sustainable way
C. Communication
Graduates of the University will recognise and value communication as the tool for negotiating and creating new understanding, collaborating with others, and furthering their own learning. This will be understood in terms of the following:
-make effective use of oral, written and visual means to critique, negotiate, create and communicate understanding
-use communication as a tool for collaborating and relating to others
-further their own learning through effective use of the full range of
communication approaches
- seek and value open feedback to inform genuine self-awareness
- recognise the benefits of communicating with those beyond their immediate
environments
- use effective communication to articulate their skills as identified through self-
reflection
D. Personal Effectiveness
Graduates of the University will be able to effect change and be responsive to the situations and environments in which they operate. This will be understood in terms of the following:
- appreciate and use talents constructively
- be able to create and harness opportunities
- be able to manage risk while initiating and managing change
-be responsive to their changing surroundings, being both flexible and
proactive
- have the confidence to make decisions based on their understandings and
their personal and intellectual autonomy
- be able to flexibly transfer their knowledge, learning, skills and abilities from
one context to another
- understand social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities and
issues
- be able to work effectively with others, capitalising on their different thinking,
experience and skills
- work with, manage, and lead others in ways that value their diversity and
equality and that encourage their contribution to the organisation and the wider community |
| Special Arrangements |
This is a core course of the BA Childhood Practice. Students from other programmes need to contact the course organiser before they enrol on the course. There is a requirement for students to be working an in a childhood setting in order to take the course. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Teaching will involve a combination of direct and independent learning, including: tutorials, short set lectures, project work, online interactions, web-based research, group collaborative discussion and
the setting of individual study tasks that encourage students to contribute to the curriculum by sharing knowledge.
You will be required to keep a weekly note/journal of how your perspectives of children and young people have developed throughout the course. This journal then becomes your learning record and enables you to complete reflection tasks in the final year of the course. |
| Keywords | social justice,childhood,schooling,social services,pedagogy,curriculum and assessment,leadershi |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Maggie Morrison
Tel: (0131 6)51 4237
Email: Maggie.Morrison@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Gabriella Szel
Tel: (0131 6)51 4906
Email: Gabriella.Szel@ed.ac.uk |
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