Educating Adolescents: Diversity, Differentiation and Inclusion
UndergraduateCUR-EDS2152025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 1 Sept 2025
- Price from
- $666
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Educating Adolescents: Diversity, Differentiation and Inclusion
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Explain key concepts associated with contemporary theoretical perspectives of adolescent learning, diversity and inclusion
- Justify the benefits of a strengths based approach to differentiated teaching practices for diverse adolescent learners
- Examine teaching practices according to the key principles of learning, diversity and inclusion
- Develop a research-based perspective on topics related to adolescent learning, diversity and inclusion in the Australian secondary education context.
- Module 1: Theoretical perspectives of adolescent learning, diversity and inclusion
- Module 2: Differentiated teaching practice for diverse learners (neuro, behavioural & physical diversity, diverse gender & sexualities, cultural-linguistic diversity, First Nation)
- Module 3: Application of differentiated teaching practices
This subject is designed to build upon the foundation of Child Development for Educators. The subject will specifically focus on adolescents with regard to their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development and will address factors that influence learning in the secondary school context. The subject will address contemporary theoretical and evidence based perspectives of inclusion to account for cultural, linguistic, neurological, physical, behavioural, gender, sexual and First Nation diversity. The subject will support your development of skills in meeting the diverse needs of learners through the differentiation of teaching practices.
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- Learning diversity and inclusion eTest (20%)
- Annotated Bibliography Evaluation and Presentation (40%)
- Multi-media Presentation (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-SAR-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (The Arts - Visual Arts)
- CUR-SEN-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (English Education)
- CUR-SGE-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (Humanities and Social Sciences Education - Geography)
Elective
- CUR-FAST-DEG-2025 - Fast track your Curtin on campus study
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (The Arts - Visual Arts)
UndergraduateCUR-SAR-DEG
Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (English Education)
UndergraduateCUR-SEN-DEG
Fast track your Curtin on campus study
UndergraduateCUR-FAST-DEG