Reflexivity, change, innovation and diversity (BBA303)

Central to the course are the themes of critical reflection, change, innovation and diversity. Students are challenged to apply relevant knowledge, skills and general competence in the course to acquire experience in practicing professional criticism, new thinking and innovation in relevant areas. The course requires a high level of student activity.

Teaching is generally organized through lectures, seminars and group work.

The child welfare education program is a full-time program. Learning outcomes are achieved through participation in the various forms of teaching, completion of compulsory activities and independent work with curriculum literature.

A candidate who has completed and passed a course shall have achieved the following learning outcomes

Knowledge

• Have a broad and multidisciplinary knowledge of key child welfare topics, issues and processes
• Has broad knowledge of implementing, coordinating and evaluating measures in an interdisciplinary perspective
• Is familiar with relevant academic debates, research and development work, including new thinking and innovation processes that apply to the child welfare field.
• Has knowledge that contributes to identifying and addressing how contextual conditions affect children, young people and their families, as well as professional practitioners.
• Has knowledge of inclusion, non-discrimination and equality that contributes to ensuring equitable services for children and young people in vulnerable situations and their families.

Skills

• Can apply experience and professional knowledge in the field of child welfare, as well as reflect critically on their own and the service's practice for the benefit of children, young people and their families
• Can critically reflect on change and innovation processes in the child welfare field using knowledge-based methods, theories and professional judgment
• Be able to apply experiential knowledge from children and young people and their families as part of the basis for ensuring the participation and involvement of children and young people
• Can analyze child welfare challenges and initiate ethical and legally sound decisions
• Can apply professional knowledge to promote professional development, quality improvement and service innovation
• Be able to build relationships, collaborate and communicate in a way that promotes inclusion, participation and involvement of children and young people and their families.
• Can reflect critically on power relations, professionalism and one's own role as a practitioner when working 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 and affect an individual's life

General competence

• Has insight into and can handle ethical issues within the field of child welfare and their own service provision
• Has insight into power relations, professionalism and his/her own role as a professional in meeting children, young people and families
• Has insight into and masters systematic work to ensure the participation and involvement of children and young people
• Has insight into and can safeguard the rights of children, young people and families to help ensure equal services in a society characterized by diversity

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.

Fagperson(er)

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