Social Justice and Diversity in Early Childhood
UndergraduateCUR-EDE4132025
Previously CUR-EDE411
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Get to know children’s rights and defend them. Study how culture, values and community come together, and how this impacts pedagogy and curriculum. Listen to children and read theory to form your view of educators in diverse communities.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Price from
- $666
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Social Justice and Diversity in Early Childhood
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- examine the interactions between culture, values and community
- evaluate how cultural contexts and social justice impact on pedagogy and curriculum
- define and defend the rights of children in an article demonstrating an increased level of personal literacy
- listen to children and interpret their theories
- reconstruct the role of educator within a framework of ethical relationships in diverse communities.
- Social Justice in Early Childhood Education and Care
- The Image of the Child: Children as Citizens with Rights
- Listening: Constructing Identity and Relationships
- The Early Childhood Setting as a Democratic Forum
- Interrogating Diversity and Difference
- Pedagogical Documentation for Social Justice
- Culture and Values
- Unequal Childhoods
- Critical Multiculturalism
- Reconceptualising the Family for Social Justice
- Language and Identity
- Gender and Sexual Identity
This subject was previously known as EDE411 Social Justice and Diversity in Early Childhood.
This subject explores contemporary issues of culture, equity, values and social justice in early childhood pedagogy. The subject proposes an image of the child as a citizen with rights and students analyse the impact of this image in curriculum decision-making. The subject promotes a view of early childhood settings as democratic forums: students critically examine approaches to building relationships with children, families, and communities. Students consider how to redress inequalities and create welcoming spaces for children, educators and families of diverse cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and practices. Students articulate their roles as advocates for children’s rights and are encouraged to reconceptualise their views on families, gender, language and sexual identity to further consolidate an ethical approach to the profession of educator.
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- Report (50%)
- Case Study (50%)
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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-ECE-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood Education)
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).
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
CUR-EDE411 (Not currently available)
CUR-EDE302 (Not currently available)
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 (Early Childhood Education)
UndergraduateCUR-ECE-DEG
Fast track your Curtin on campus study
UndergraduateCUR-FAST-DEG