School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Building Partnerships in Early Childhood Settings
  • Unit Code

    ECS4315
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Gillian KIRK

Description

This unit examines a framework for interdisciplinary practice and service coordination to build a Team Around the Child. An integral part of the Team Around the Child is family centred practice, in which family is empowered to participate as equal members of the child's team. Pre-service teachers will formulate strategies for connecting, communicating and working with diverse families, community and other stakeholders to improve outcomes for children with complex needs. They will explore notions of cultural competence when considering diversity in parenting, families and issues of social justice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass ECS2240, ECS1265 and ECS1245 to enrol in this unit

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Justify the importance of forming partnerships with families and communities in establishing a Team Around the Child.
  2. Determine varied approaches, strategies, benefits and barriers in establishing and maintaining collaborative partnerships in early childhood settings.
  3. Examine the role of cultural competence in supporting the multiple roles of parents, their parenting beliefs, and cultural constructions of families and communities.
  4. Use knowledge of cultural competence as a lens to critically examine own values, prejudices and perspectives on the roles of families and working with diverse groups.
  5. Formulate ways to support families with diverse needs at times of stress, including families with children with special needs.
  6. Examine collaborative/integrated care and education models as integral to the Team Around the Child.

Unit Content

  1. Importance of establishing a Team Around the Child.
  2. Strategies for engaging families and communities in establishing a Team Around the Child.
  3. Cultural competence and roles of parents, diversity of parenting beliefs, and cultural constructions of families and communities.
  4. Early Years Learning Framework; National Quality Standard and Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics and social policy documents

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 28 x 4 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Online and video.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLiterature and Conceptual Framework Review50%
Case StudyCase Study50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLiterature and Conceptual Framework Review50%
Case StudyCase Study50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Building Partnerships in Early Childhood Settings
  • Unit Code

    ECS4315
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Gillian KIRK

Description

This unit examines a framework for interdisciplinary practice and service coordination to build a Team Around the Child. An integral part of the Team Around the Child is family centred practice, in which family is empowered to participate as equal members of the child's team. Pre-service teachers will formulate strategies for connecting, communicating and working with diverse families, community and other stakeholders to improve outcomes for children with complex needs. They will explore notions of cultural competence when considering diversity in parenting, families and issues of social justice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass ECS2240, ECS1265 and ECS1245 to enrol in this unit

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Justify the importance of forming partnerships with families and communities in establishing a Team Around the Child.
  2. Determine varied approaches, strategies, benefits and barriers in establishing and maintaining collaborative partnerships in early childhood settings.
  3. Examine the role of cultural competence in supporting the multiple roles of parents, their parenting beliefs, and cultural constructions of families and communities.
  4. Use knowledge of cultural competence as a lens to critically examine own values, prejudices and perspectives on the roles of families and working with diverse groups.
  5. Formulate ways to support families with diverse needs at times of stress, including families with children with special needs.
  6. Examine collaborative/integrated care and education models as integral to the Team Around the Child.

Unit Content

  1. Importance of establishing a Team Around the Child.
  2. Strategies for engaging families and communities in establishing a Team Around the Child.
  3. Cultural competence and roles of parents, diversity of parenting beliefs, and cultural constructions of families and communities.
  4. Early Years Learning Framework; National Quality Standard and Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics and social policy documents.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 28 x 4 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Online and video.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPartnerships50%
Case StudyCase Study50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentPartnerships50%
Case StudyCase Study50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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