Reflexivity, change, innovation and diversity (BBA303)

Content

In this course, students will base their work on knowledge about socio-pedagogy and child welfare gained from earlier in the programme, experiences from their own period of supervised professional training, and work on their own bachelor’s thesis.

The teaching is organised in the form of lectures, seminars and group work on critical thinking, innovation and diversity. The course aims to contribute to creating a connection between education and practice.

Learning outcome

After successfully completing and passing the course, candidates will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in the form of

Knowledge

• Has broad and multidisciplinary knowledge about key child welfare topics, issues and processes.
• Has broad knowledge about communication, conflict management and collaboration in a society characterised by diversity.
• Has broad knowledge about interdisciplinary, interagency and interprofessional work that takes place in the child welfare field
• Has knowledge about relevant professional debates, research and development work in the child welfare field.
• Has knowledge about innovative thinking and innovation processes that apply to the child welfare field.
• Can update their critical organisation knowledge in the field of child welfare.
• Can update their knowledge about child welfare as a subject area.
• Has knowledge about inclusion, non-discrimination and equality, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion and beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and age, so that the candidate contributes to ensuring equal services for children and young people in vulnerable situations and their families.
• Has knowledge about social science methodology and its possibilities and limitations.

Skills

• Can apply experience and academic knowledge to support and guide co-workers in the child welfare field, as well as reflect critically on their own and the service’s practice and adjust practice under supervision in groups.
• Can apply academic knowledge to professional development, quality improvement and service innovation in the child welfare field.
• Can apply academic knowledge from children and young people as part of the basis for ensuring children and young people’s participation and contribution.
• Can apply new academic knowledge in a methodical and scientific manner.
• Can apply knowledge-based methods, theories and professional discretion for the benefit of children, young people and their families.
• Can reflect critically on power relationships, professionalism and one’s own role as a professional in encounters with children, young people and families.
• Can reflect on how social categories such as gender, ethnicity, religion and beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and age interact with and affect an individual’s life.
• Can reflect critically on change and innovation processes in the child welfare field.
• Can use experience and knowledge to build relationships, collaborate and communicate in a way that promotes inclusion, participation, and contribution of children and young people.

General competence

• Has insight into and can manage ethical issues in the child welfare field and their own service provision.
• Has insight into power relationships, professionalism and their own role as a professional in encounters with children, young people and families.
• Has insight into and can work systematically to ensure children and young people’s participation and contribution, and can safeguard the rights of children, young people and families and help ensure equal services in a society characterised by diversity.
• Can plan, implement, document, evaluate and communicate measures and service design based on the best interests of the child, both independently and together with others, in a way that leads to inclusion, non-discrimination and equality

Required prerequisite knowledge

Recommended prerequisites

Exam

Coursework requirements

This compulsory activity must be approved in order for students to take the examination. Approval/non-approval of compulsory activities is announced on Studentweb, normally no later than 7 days before the examination. Students who lack approval will be withdrawn from the oral examination.

Attendance requirements: At least 75% attendance at defined teaching activities is required. See announcement on Canvas. If attendance requirements are not met, students lose the right to take the examination, regardless of the reason.

Course teacher(s)

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Method of work

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