EUB142 Promoting Young Children's Rights and Protection
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| Unit code: | EUB142 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $578 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,528 |
| International unit fee | $4,572 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Online
| Unit code: | EUB142 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit will empower you with the knowledge and skills to uphold and advocate for children’s rights and protection. It will examine the scope and key features of international conventions, relevant laws, policies, and codes and their application in child-centred early childhood education and care. You will confront the challenges and opportunities in promoting children’s rights and safety, and preventing harm, abuse, and exploitation. It seeks to develop your competence and self-efficacy in advocating for children and their rights, enabling children’s expression of their rights, and ensuring children’s rights are a focus in the provision of learning experiences.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify the key features of the conventions, laws, policies, and codes that are central to children’s rights and your professional obligations in relation to working with children in early childhood settings.
- Design educational resources about children’s rights and protection.
- Describe the ways in which educators can support children’s rights in everyday practice in early childhood education and care.
- Create appropriate responses to cases of suspected child abuse, neglect, and family violence and justify decisions and courses of action.
- Plan ways to maximise child safety and minimise opportunities for child harm in early childhood education settings and digital environments.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, child protection legislation and policies, professional codes of ethics, and institutional codes of conduct relevant to children’s rights and protection.
- Principles for child safe organisations and child safe standards.
- Children’s rights to participate in decisions that affect them in early childhood education and care, and educators’ obligations in program provision.
- Relevant curriculum, frameworks, and resources for children’s rights implementation.
- Educators as advocates for children and champions of their rights.
- Child safety and digital environments, including Generative AI
- Advocating for children's rights within education systems, and with families, colleagues and interdisciplinary teams.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in active and reflective learning. Learning activities are designed to draw upon your professional experience and prior learning.
A range of teaching and learning experiences will be used including:
- professional readings
- video and/or audio recordings
- online interactives and activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- feedback from peers in group discussions
- unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort
- formative assessment tasks, and
- summative assessment tasks.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Digital Book - This task connects your learning about conventions, laws, policies, and/or codes for the rights and protection of children with advocacy through digital media.
- Examination - This task draws on your understanding of children's rights and protection to respond to cases of suspected child mistreatment and unsafe digital practices as appropriate for educators in early childhood settings.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Digital Book
You will create a digital resource on a topic associated with children’s rights and/or protection that can be used by educators to promote children's rights and protection. Identify your target audience (children, parents/carers, educators/colleagues) and tailor your resource for their needs. You will craft a rationale for your choice of topic and audience by anchoring it in relevant conventions, laws, policies, and/or codes. You will evaluate the strengths and limitations of your approach.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Examination (Online)
You will plan responses to cases of suspected child mistreatment and unsafe digital practices, including those involving Gen AI, appropriate to early childhood educators. Your responses will include plans for working with interdisciplinary teams. You will respond to prompts about the case via video during a time-limited window.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.ED34 Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five)
- Knowledgeable: Integrate theory, curriculum and context to plan, implement and evaluate learning and teaching.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, ULO5, Examination (Online) - Professional: Apply policy, legislative requirements, codes of conduct and ethical principles to early childhood practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Digital Book - Communicative: Articulate early childhood teaching philosophies, pedagogies and practices to a variety of audiences.
Relates to: ULO2, Digital Book
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Online
| Unit code: | EUB142 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit will empower you with the knowledge and skills to uphold and advocate for children’s rights and protection. It will examine the scope and key features of international conventions, relevant laws, policies, and codes and their application in child-centred early childhood education and care. You will confront the challenges and opportunities in promoting children’s rights and safety, and preventing harm, abuse, and exploitation. It seeks to develop your competence and self-efficacy in advocating for children and their rights, enabling children’s expression of their rights, and ensuring children’s rights are a focus in the provision of learning experiences.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify the key features of the conventions, laws, policies, and codes that are central to children’s rights and your professional obligations in relation to working with children in early childhood settings.
- Design educational resources about children’s rights and protection.
- Describe the ways in which educators can support children’s rights in everyday practice in early childhood education and care.
- Create appropriate responses to cases of suspected child abuse, neglect, and family violence and justify decisions and courses of action.
- Plan ways to maximise child safety and minimise opportunities for child harm in early childhood education settings and digital environments.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, child protection legislation and policies, professional codes of ethics, and institutional codes of conduct relevant to children’s rights and protection.
- Principles for child safe organisations and child safe standards.
- Children’s rights to participate in decisions that affect them in early childhood education and care, and educators’ obligations in program provision.
- Relevant curriculum, frameworks, and resources for children’s rights implementation.
- Educators as advocates for children and champions of their rights.
- Child safety and digital environments, including Generative AI
- Advocating for children's rights within education systems, and with families, colleagues and interdisciplinary teams.
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in active and reflective learning. Learning activities are designed to draw upon your professional experience and prior learning.
A range of teaching and learning experiences will be used including:
- professional readings
- video and/or audio recordings
- online interactives and activities.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- feedback from peers in group discussions
- unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort
- formative assessment tasks, and
- summative assessment tasks.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Digital Book - This task connects your learning about conventions, laws, policies, and/or codes for the rights and protection of children with advocacy through digital media.
- Examination - This task draws on your understanding of children's rights and protection to respond to cases of suspected child mistreatment and unsafe digital practices as appropriate for educators in early childhood settings.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Digital Book
You will create a digital resource on a topic associated with children’s rights and/or protection that can be used by educators to promote children's rights and protection. Identify your target audience (children, parents/carers, educators/colleagues) and tailor your resource for their needs. You will craft a rationale for your choice of topic and audience by anchoring it in relevant conventions, laws, policies, and/or codes. You will evaluate the strengths and limitations of your approach.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Examination (Online)
You will plan responses to cases of suspected child mistreatment and unsafe digital practices, including those involving Gen AI, appropriate to early childhood educators. Your responses will include plans for working with interdisciplinary teams. You will respond to prompts about the case via video during a time-limited window.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.ED34 Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five)
- Knowledgeable: Integrate theory, curriculum and context to plan, implement and evaluate learning and teaching.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, ULO5, Examination (Online) - Professional: Apply policy, legislative requirements, codes of conduct and ethical principles to early childhood practice.
Relates to: ULO1, Digital Book - Communicative: Articulate early childhood teaching philosophies, pedagogies and practices to a variety of audiences.
Relates to: ULO2, Digital Book