Socialisation & Identity in Development
Subject 472-121 (2008)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2008.Search for this in the current handbook
| Credit Points: | 12.500 | ||||||||||||
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| Level: | Undergraduate | ||||||||||||
| Dates & Locations: | This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008: Semester 2, - Taught on campus.
Singapore. Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here. | ||||||||||||
| Time Commitment: | Contact Hours: Fifteen hours of intensive contact supported by structured materials for private study Total Time Commitment: Not available | ||||||||||||
| Prerequisites: | None | ||||||||||||
| Corequisites: | None | ||||||||||||
| Recommended Background Knowledge: | None | ||||||||||||
| Non Allowed Subjects: | None | ||||||||||||
| Core Participation Requirements: |
For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry. It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability may impact on meeting the requirements of this subject are encouraged to discuss this matter with a Faculty Student Adviser and Student Equity and Disability Support: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/disability |
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Glenda MacNaughton| Subject Overview: | A study of the individual's construction of a sense of self-focusing on the relationships between social structures such as race, gender, class and sexuality and young children's identity formation. Research-based case studies will be used to explore how contrasting theoretical perspectives, including socialisation theory, explain these relationships. There will be a particular emphasis on the differences between cultural transmission and social construction theories and the influence of modernist and postmodernist understandings of the individual within these theories. This will include tracing the recent shift away from the concepts of socialisation and role to explain identity formation towards the explanatory concepts of discourse subject positioning and subjectivities. The influence of this shift in recent research on young children's identity formation in early childhood will be explored. |
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| Assessment: | A 2-hour examination and assignments totalling 2000 words.Resources provided to distance students: students will be provided with a course handbook, subject guide, study guide and a book of readings. |
| Prescribed Texts: | None |
| Recommended Texts: | Information Not Available |
| Breadth Options: | This subject is not available as a breadth subject. |
| Fees Information: | Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date |
| Generic Skills: | Information Not Available |
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