Overview

This unit defines Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century and describe some of the key factors including impact and adaption to globalisation, technological, social and ecological change. The students will have opportunities to explore world issues and identify ethical debates associated with the lives of children in local and global settings. They will also analyse research and its impact on policy and practices.

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
04-November-2024
09-February-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-November-2024
Census date
29-November-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
27-December-2024
Results released date
04-March-2025
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
03-November-2025
08-February-2026
Last self-enrolment date
16-November-2025
Census date
28-November-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
02-January-2026
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Define Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century and describe some of the key factors including impact and adaption to globalisation, technological, social and ecological change
  • Respond to world issues through the teaching and learning program
  • Compare the differences and similarities of local and global childhoods and how policies, programs and policing govern childhoods
  • Examine the notion of the global child and childhoods as both political and politicized
  • Describe and evaluate current debates in contemporary society impacting on children’s experiences of early childhood including social media, use of technology, transition to school, competency frameworks, advocacy and voice
  • Identify ethical issues associated with digital technologies
  • Critique of research on and about children and childhoods and how it informs policy and practice

Teaching methods

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		 1.00  12 weeks  12
On-campus
Class		 3.00  8 weeks  24
Specified Activities
Various		 4.00  12 weeks  48
Unspecified Activities
Assessment Preparation		 6.50  12 weeks  66
TOTAL     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
EssayIndividual 50% 3,4,7 
PresentationGroup 20% 1,2 
ReportIndividual 30% 5,6 

Content

  • Teaching and learning in the 21st Century
  • Views of global childhoods as both political and politicized
  • World issues and how they are represented in a teaching and learning program. Debates in contemporary society impacting on children's experiences of early childhood
  • Digital technologies, social media and representations of childhood
  • Ethical issues associated with digital technologies
  • Local and global policies and practices on school transition and school readiness
  • Globalising and universalising childhoods
  • Local and global discourses of protection, rights, welfare and policy and how they govern different types of childhoods.
  • Researching children and childhoods and how it informs policy and practice.

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.