EED312 SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF PRIMARY EDUCATION (8)
Enrolment restriction(s): Bachelor of Education (Primary) and Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology)/Bachelor of Teaching (Primary) students only.
 This subject is designed to develop the understanding that primary schools are not politically neutral, they do not exist in social vacuums unconnected with society. Consequently, if teachers are to develop curriculum and teach in ways which benefit all students, they need to develop a clear analytic grasp of a number of issues. These include social class, gender and ethnicity which demonstrate how social disadvantage is produced in primary schooling and, in the absence of appropriate teacher and curricula responses, reproduced. Thus the subject requires students to reflect on the nature of social justice and what it requires.