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Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Jane Page.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial/workshop each week, and five field days.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- demonstrate an appreciation of the various roles and responsibilities of the contemporary early childhood professional across a range of services;
- understand the place of children's services in the broader context of human services;
- appreciate some of the more significant debates about children's services that have occurred over time and that continue to impact on contemporary services;
- demonstrate a basic understanding of the way in which human services are affected by social, political, economic and technological forces; and
- use the major skills involved in reflective thinking in order to analyse the role of the contemporary early childhood professional.
Content:
Critical reflection of the historical, political, economic, social, demographic and technological influences on the roles and responsibilities of the early childhood professional working in children's services in Australia in the 1990s.
Assessment:
Two major papers of 2,000 words each (50 per cent each). Students must pass each item of assessment.
Prescribed texts:
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