School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Socio-cultural Foundations of Health and Physical Education
  • Unit Code

    HPE3305
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Anne COFFEY

Description

This unit investigates effective, meaningful Health and Physical Education in the context of today’s schools. It incorporates an understanding of the holistic nature of health and of the socio-cultural influences that impact on the well-being of school and community members.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate an understanding of the varied Health and Physical Education needs of today’s primary and early secondary students and of the important contribution Health and Physical Education to the social, cultural and cognitive development of the individual.
  2. Evaluate Health Education from a holistic perspective that includes the interrelated dimensions of social, emotional, mental, moral, physical and spiritual health.
  3. Plan, teach and evaluate a sequence of lessons, with an emphasis on the integration of the Australian Health and Physical Education curriculum with other learning areas.

Unit Content

  1. Investigation of national and international trends related to young people’s health issues and the theoretical underpinnings of particular approaches to Health Education.
  2. Exploration of health promotion issues – such as school environment, school health services, health policy and involvement of the school community.
  3. Participation in practical activities and projects linked to specific health-related issues, including physical activity, nutrition, drug education, sexuality, environmental and social/emotional, in relation to appropriate teaching strategies and Health and Physical Education curriculum development and teaching.
  4. Investigation and critical analysis of Health Education curriculum support materials and community health agencies.
  5. Examination and evaluation of a range of Health Education curriculum models and teaching and assessment strategies.
  6. Planning for integrated HPE teaching by planning-teaching-reviewing a series of Health Education lessons.

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
AssignmentAssignment 150%
AssignmentAssignment 250%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 150%
AssignmentAssignment 250%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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