Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 101623

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Description This subject is designed to build the leadership capacity of educators through exploring, understanding and expressing the values and ethics embedded in policy, practice and educational change. The subject also addresses the importance of ethically informed advocacy and its role in educational futures and democratic processes.

School Education

Discipline Teacher Education: Early Childhood

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 1 10cp

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Level Undergraduate Level 3 subject

Equivalent Subjects TEAC 2047 - Policy Politics and Educational Futures

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Discuss the political, ethical and contested nature of educational provision;
2. Articulate the relationship between agency, citizenship and democracy;
3. Define what it means to be a professional and the interrelationship between personal and professional values;
4. Explain the application and implications of traditional and contemporary frameworks and tools that support wise professional practice;
5. Analyse the embedded ethical and political dimensions of contemporary issues in early childhood policy and practice;

Subject Content

1. Module 1 Citizenship, Ethics and the Creation of Wellbeing
   • Values, citizenship and work as a professional
   • Ethics principles and frameworks
   • Wise professional practice: models and tools
2. Module 2: Educational Policy: Contents and Discontents
   • Exploration of contested values that underpin policy and pedagogical practice
   • Policy studies
   • The business of policy making
   • Contemporary issues and debates in educational policy
   • Institutions as sites for ethical encounters
3. Module 3: Ethically Informed Advocacy and Activism
   • Democratic processes for change
   • Ethical entrepreneurship
   • Futures, futures thinking and scenario planning