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YSED601 Critical Issues, Young People and Schooling

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester in a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches.

This unit explores the ways academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, education, legal/law studies, welfare and health/medicine have researched and come to conceptualise young people. In this unit consideration is given to the ways that research and theoretical knowledge produce and shape various styles of practice and programs that target young people, their families and communities. Consideration is given to the various ways welfare work, youth work, classroom teaching, nursing, counselling services and police work structure relations between workers and young people. The idea of the school as a community and the implications of this approach for working with young people is also examined.

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