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 | Available to all 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.
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
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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. This course is available to Visiting Students however students from other University of Edinburgh programmes need to contact the course organiser before they enrol on the course.***
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
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) |
2,000 word essay, worth 100% of total mark |
| 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 |
Every student and graduate is unique. They each have their own experiences, learning, and way of approaching life. The quality, depth, and breadth of their experiences while at the University of Edinburgh develop characteristic attributes that set them apart.
University of Edinburgh graduates have:
- curiosity for learning that makes a positive difference
- courage to expand and fulfill their potential
- passion to engage locally and globally
University of Edinburgh graduates are:
- creative problem solvers and researchers
- critical and reflective thinkers
- effective and influential contributors
- skilled communicators
The seven aspects complement each other. Various combinations of the attributes will be used in different contexts throughout our students' and graduates' lives, within and beyond their career, academia, and citizenship. |
| Special Arrangements |
This is a core course of the BA Childhood Practice. This course is available to Visiting Students, however students from other University of Edinburgh 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: lecture workshops, 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.
Throughout the BA Childhood Practice you are required to keep a learning journal of how your perspectives of children and young people have developed throughout the course. This journal then becomes your record and enables you to complete reflection tasks throughout your degree. |
| Keywords | social justice,childhood,schooling,social services,pedagogy,curriculum and assessment,leadershi |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Sabina Savadova
Tel: (0131 6)51 6539
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Gabriella Szel
Tel: (0131 6)51 4906
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