Equity and Inclusion: Educating Students with Disability
Quick Info
- Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
- Course code: EDU546
- Credit points: 10
- Subject coordinator: Jim Twelves
Prerequisites
The following courses are prerequisites:
- EDU400 Biblical Foundations of Education or 40 credit points
Awards offering Equity and Inclusion: Educating Students with Disability
This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:
Unit Content
Outcomes
- Describe and justify a biblical perspective on equity and disability as it relates to learning communities in the 21st century;
- Evaluate the implications of current legislation, policy, literature, and trends in the area of inclusive education;
- Review an educational practice, intervention, or framework relevant to the education of a student with disability;
- Design, describe, and justify whole school adjustments and classroom-based strategies to promote access, participation, and achievement of a student with disability in the context of their same aged peers.
Subject Content
- Biblical perspective on exceptionality and the notion of an inclusive community
- Diversity and Inclusion in our schools
- Inclusion: Legislation and government policies
- School based Practices
- Research Strategies for Inclusive Practice
- Assessment in inclusive schools
- Resilience and Social Inclusion
- Literacy across the curriculum
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Face-to-Face
- Distance/ Global Online
- Intensive (5 days of classes/7 hours per day followed by 85 hours reading, writing and assignments)
- Extensive (5 days spread over the semester)
Check timetables for subject availability and mode of delivery
Assessment Methods
- Devotional / Professional Learning Presentation (25%)
- Literature Review (25%)
- Learning Plan (50%)
Prescribed Text
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