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EDEC4009: Language and Literacies
2025 unit information
This unit focuses on literacy and social justice: the importance of supporting all young children's developing understanding of and access to a range of literacies in the early years. Students will explore the use of visual literacies, community literacies and digital literacies to understand how they can extend young children's communication, language and literacy development, and creative thinking. The impact of popular culture, critical literacy and digital technologies and the use of these as learning tools will be a key focus. Partnering with families to help children learn through and about language and literacies will also be an important theme.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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132 credit points including EDEC3007 and EDEC3008 and EDEC3011 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Discuss and critique the complex socio-cultural nature of language and literacy learning
- LO2. Apply the nexus between practice, theory and research in relation to multiliteracies in early childhood contexts
- LO3. Articulate theoretical and conceptual approaches to critical literacy, popular culture and digital literacies and their application in early childhood contexts
- LO4. Embed a range of literacies appropriately in early childhood contexts to support young children’s language and literacy learning
- LO5. Articulate the importance of partnering with families to enable children to develop a sound understanding of the multiple ways we need to make meaning
- LO6. Engage with and contribute to current language and literacy debates and their implications for teaching in early childhood settings
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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