Badanami Centre For Indigenous EducationSocial Capital and School-Community RelationsWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101309.1
Discipline: EDUCATION NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must have attended an approved child protection workshop and submitted a Prohibited Employment Declaration prior to undertaking this unit.
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 is designed to build on students' sociological understandings of schooling by liking to the practical concerns of teachers and their school communities. The unit builds on experiential, theoretical and curriculum knowledge develped in the course. As the unit is designed for Aboriginal Rural Education Program students it has a specific focus on the ways in which schools and communities interact to develop social capital. Specifically, the unit engages students in an investigation and analysis of school-based and community strategies that attempt to build social capital - including bonding, bridging and linking capital - with local Indigenous and non-Indigenous school communities.