Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Inclusive Youth Work Practice

• Unit Code

  YWK3211

• Year

  2017

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

• Unit Coordinator

  Ms Orietta Marie SIMONS

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Description

This unit examines how young people from various social and cultural groups have different life experiences, different perspectives on life and have different opportunities in life. The unit focuses on understanding the everyday experiences of young people, and examining how youth workers and others who work with young people can work positively with all young people to help them achieve their potential. The unit applies a rights and social justice perspective.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from CSV1102, YWK3107, YWK1220

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded YWK1112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Discuss how discourses about difference shape the everyday experiences and life chances of young people and have been used to justify the treatment of some youth populations as different, dangerous and inferior.
2. Analyse the construction and intersection of social difference and the implications for youth workers and others working with young people.
3. Based upon critical readings and discussions, develop a repertoire of useful methods that youth workers and other professionals can use to promote social inclusion and positive identity.

Unit Content

1. Knowledge and skills to support young people to develop their strengths and establish a positive identity.
2. Theory that explains construction of social difference (for example, class, gender, sexuality, race, Aboriginality, culture, and disability).
3. How opportunity and capacity to reach full human potential are influenced by life experiences, and social characteristics such as location, gender, sexual orientation, race, culture and social class.
4. Social difference in different historical eras and in different places, including past and present implications of Australian colonial relations for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
5. Methods and strategies for positive inclusion that can be applied in youth work settings and policy strategies to counter adverse effects of discrimination, marginalisation and inter-generational cycles of exclusion.
6. Discourses about difference (for example, racial , patriarchal, colonial and queer theory )

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops and tutorial sessions or online discussions

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 Board of Examiners.

Core Reading(s)

• White, R. D., Wyn, J., & Robards, B. (2017). Youth and society (4th ed.). South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press,
• White, R., & Wyn, J. (2008). Youth and society: Exploring the social dynamics of youth experience (2nd ed.). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

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