Badanami Centre For Indigenous EducationCultural Diversity, Society and Learning 2 (AREP)Western Sydney University Unit Code: 100745.1
Discipline: EDUCATION NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
101500 - Communities and Primary Schools (AREP)
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
This unit is restricted to students enrolled in course 1598 Bachelor of Education (Primary) - AREP which is a course specifically designed for Indigenous Australian students preparing to be primary school teachers.
About this Unit
This unit builds on Cultural diversity, Society and Learning 1 using the theories and methodologies of sociology in the context of primary and community education. The aim is to understand how sociological perspectives can help us analyse the social influences on education and consequently, learning. Students will build on the knowledge that dimensions of culture such as ethnicity, gender, 'race', language, class and sexuality are social relations constructed in and through unequal relations of power. Education, both at the broader community and school level is implicated in these relations of power in a range of ways. The unit examines the distribution of power in these contexts through the lens of structuralist and post-structuralist analyses of education. As a consequence, students will be able to critically analyse the relationship between social and cultural change, education and community agency.