Unit of Study EDUC5006 Valuing Diversity (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Education
Placement

No

Unit description

Increases students' awareness, knowledge and experience in understanding the diverse learning needs in educational settings. Explores issues related to working and teaching in various contexts, including social justice, equity, rights and diversity of cultural, refugee and Indigenous perspectives in local, national and international contexts.

Unit content

Topic 1: Why Valuing Diversity? Exploring culture, diversity, identity, social justice, equity and rights
Topic 2: Cultural diversity and social identities at school
Topic 3: A fair go for all? Social in-justices and in-equity
Topic 4: Exploring inhibiting factors that impact on learning and wellbeing
Topic 5: Exploring enabling programs and approaches that support learning and wellbeing
Topic 6: Whole school approaches to inclusion - mapping unity through diversity

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
SCU Online	Term3	Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Describe how sociological theory on social and cultural practices can shape diverse learner identities and a sense of belonging.

Evaluate diverse learners’ needs using a justice, equity and rights lens within educational settings.

Analyse the inhibiting and enabling factors, including global data, which can impact on the learning and wellbeing outcomes of children and young people.

Evaluate the wellbeing impacts of whole school approaches to inclusion for children and young people.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Structured online learning

Assessment
Critical review	40%
Case study	60%

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Domestic

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