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Lecturers: Lidia Hall and Christine Cook

AEB 3174 Socio Economic Background and Social Justice in Early Childhood Session 2 Choice, C hance & Change. Lecturers: Lidia Hall and Christine Cook. Education and Social Justice. Socio Economic Background. Socio Economic Background is a choice or chance?

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Lecturers: Lidia Hall and Christine Cook

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  1. AEB 3174 Socio Economic Background and Social Justice in Early ChildhoodSession 2 Choice, Chance & Change Lecturers: Lidia Hall and Christine Cook

  2. Education and Social Justice

  3. Socio Economic Background • Socio Economic Background is a choice or chance? • What is happening in your backyard? • What is social justice in early childhood education? • What influences SE background?

  4. What about our values and expectations • How does opportunity and exposure to experiences play? Speaking at LIFT 2007, SugataMitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves? • http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html

  5. Contributing factors to SE diversity –Choice or Chance? • Education • Employment • Language barriers • Health • Newly arrived migrants • Refugees • Low income families • Family violence • Family law • Waiting lists for childcare centres • Affordability for childcare • Poverty • Homelessness • Drug/alcohol dependence/abuse • Mental Health Issues • Crime • Gambling • Debts owed • Infringements • Motor vehicle accidents • Location of housing Transport • Abuse within families • Stress

  6. Is our socio economic background a choice or chance? • Education: socially divided and socially dividing. Can it be socially just? Education ... Social division ... Wealth .... Poverty • What is the evidence for education being socially divided and socially dividing? • What are the causes for education’s socially dividing effects? • Should we care? Do we accept that education should be socially just? And what do we mean by socially just education? • How can we be agents of change?

  7. Agents of change • What are your expectations of children from disadvantaged families. Are they the same as for other children? • Should they be? • How does this match your philosophy? • What will you do about it?

  8. Socio economic background vs choice of childcare • Private Centres • Community based centres • Family day care • Nanny • Care by parents/grandparents • Any more?

  9. Consider family income http://www.liveinvictoria.vic.gov.au/living-in-victoria/education-and-childcare/childcare#Costs • Costs • Typical childcare costs are: • Childcare type Typical price range • Centre-based childcareA$60 to A$120 dollars per day • Family day careA$4.50 to A$7.50 per hour • Nannies A$10 to A$25 per hour (when they live in your home) A$15 to A$35 per hour (when they live elsewhere) • Au pairs (living in your home)A$80 to A$120 per week • http://bettereducation.com.au/

  10. Graduate Standards • What are the practices and structures within Early Childhood settings which can best support and encourage the participation and successful engagement of children and families from diverse socio-economic backgrounds • Conversely, are there practices and structures that might deter or exclude some children from full participation in education?

  11. Extra curricula experiences in the program… • How fair is it when some children can attend and others are denied participation even though they can watch their peers involved • What role do we have? • What can we do instead?

  12. Change and Social Justice • What’s your passion? • Do you have a fire in your belly? • Start thinking about this for next week

  13. What is happening in your backyard? • Recycled Orchestra - Cateura, Paraguay • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQ6c_bLr2o

  14. Next week • Topic: • Listening to others to inform values and philosophy • The values behind the “stories” • Guest Speaker: Ian Hamm • A personal and professional account of Social Justice issues within Aboriginal communities • Tutorial: Values, Philosophy and teaching

  15. Tutorial Task 1 Assessment 1A Audit of Interim Graduate Standards Task 2 Socio-economic diversity Exercise What’s my background? What do appearances tell us? Task 3 Review your beliefs and values ? What have you been taught about SE diversity? Where did you learn it? By whom Task 4 What’s our role as teachers? Consider examples from EC PP

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