Empowering Children’s Rights Through Literacy and Pedagogy

TITLE: Empowering Children’s Rights Through Literacy and Pedagogy

WEIGHTING: 40%

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Appraise contemporary early childhood social justice issues and apply this knowledge through pedagogical practices to facilitate each child’s rights, agency, identity, and well-being.
2. Examine the characteristics of advocacy, social justice and children’s rights to design democratic and socially inclusive early childhood curriculum provision.
3. Formulate personal social justice and advocacy teaching and leadership identities within the global early childhood education context.

LENGTH: 2500 words

DUE: Oct 12

For the assessment task, you will need to research and identify democratic and socially inclusive literacy teaching resources that can be utilized with young children 0-5 years to examine the characteristics of advocacy, social justice, and children’s rights. For each literacy teaching resource, you will need to complete a:

review of the resource with justification for its use to empower young children’s understanding of their rights.

literary analysis which justifies the pedagogical practices required to utilize the resource to empower children’s rights.

Your literacy teaching resource must comprise 8 literacy teaching resources addressing each of the following topics:

·         Civil Rights

·         Health

·         Education, Leisure, and Cultural Activities

·         Immigration, Asylum Seeker, and Refugee Children

·         Safety

·         Living Standards

·         Family Life

·         Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children