HDS735 - Inclusive Engagement: Advocacy and Participation

Unit details

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Year:2019 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Trimester 2 Unit Chair:

Patsie Frawley

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online):

Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 5 scheduled online seminars

Content

This unit engages students in developing a comprehensive understanding about the theory and practice of active engagement of people with disabilities in political and public life and how they have a say as citizens about their own lives and collective disability rights. The overarching focus of this unit will be Article 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how people with disabilities and disability organisations are enacting the right to ‘have a say’. Contemporary research and models of advocacy and participation are presented and critically examined to identify core concepts, knowledge, policy and practice and applied through examples of lived experience of people with disabilities internationally.

Assessment

Assessment task 1: Individual presentation (1000 words) 20%

Assessment task 2: Content review report - Student pairs (1500 words) 30%

Assessment task 3: Individual paper (2500 words) 50%