(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
1. LO 1: Critically evaluate the cultural, historical, and contemporary features of policies, institutions, and agencies at the local, national, and global levels, and their impact on the development children and families, as well as the concept of childhood in general.
2. LO 2: Critically reflect upon the interconnections between political, economic, cultural, and ideological contexts in the lives of children, their families and communities.
3. LO 3: Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development and engage in critical reflection to improve one's practice.
4. LO 4: Evaluate the ethics of researching children, their families and communities, demonstrating the ability to make informed judgments and decision making on complex ethical and professional issues in a contested field, and adhere to relevant ethical and professional codes of practice.
5. LO 5: Undertake ethical empirical studies on child and family contexts using various methods of data collection. Analyse the collected data and present and evaluate research findings related to children, families and childhood.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1.Using digital technology and social media appropriately in a range of contexts and reflect on the experiences to become more independent, resilient, responsible and pragmatic and develop as an autonomous learner
2. Presenting information to others in appropriate forms, including having a sense of audience, online or offline and use the communication skills to converse, debate, negotiate, persuade and challenge the ideas of others, with reasonable adjustments to include others as required
3. Demonstrating empathy, active listening skills and developing strategies to protect against burn out from ‘emotional labour’ while being sensitive to contextual and interpersonal factors, to take account of the complexity that might shape behaviour and social interaction and form the basis of problems and interpersonal conflict
4. Offering and justifying an informed point of view, drawing upon a range of theoretical positions
5. Generating, defining and refining questions and making critical judgements and evaluations
6. Reflecting on different perspectives, and critically evaluating them to arrive at supported conclusions and then communicating these reflections and understandings with others
7. Engaging with research and practice and the uncertainties of developing knowledge and understanding to access, retrieve, organise and use a range of sources of information, including primary sources, and critically evaluating their relevance
8. Insight and confidence in leading and working collaboratively with others and be sensitive to the importance of enhancing cooperation to maximise the effectiveness of individual skills
9. Writing and producing resources for different purposes, including but not limited to persuasion, explanation, description, evaluation and judgement, recount, recap, hypothesis and summary
10. Comprehending and using data effectively engaging in critical evaluation.
We view assessment as an integral and important part of the learning process. Our range of assessment methods are designed to be authentic and inclusive and help you to work to your strengths to allow you to develop numerous transferable academic and professional skills that can be applied within both academic and employment contexts. Formative and summative assessments offer you opportunities to apply theory to practice and feedback from tutors supports this process. Our assessment methods include essays, professional report writing, role plays, real life case studies, presentations, creative portfolios, reflective journaling, information leaflet design, writing funding bids, simulated interviews, and research projects.
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