Pen Green Centre for children and their families

The aims of this module are to enable students to…

• Be able to respond to the complexity of family life in a principled way.
• Consider issues of diversity, their potential impact on children and early years settings, and reflect on own attitude, values and beliefs.
• Consider the importance of multi-agency working.

In this module you will consider the impact of your own value base on the work you carry out when supporting families. It requires you to consider how you might work in a principled way with families where complexity is evident.

You will be required to work alongside a family you have worked with. It is therefore imperative that you consider deeply the ethical implications for your case study. Ethical considerations will also be discussed throughout the module as well as the issues of power and relationships.

The module will draw on a range of teaching and learning methods, including lectures and seminars, individual and small group work, videos, case study and practical workshops.

This module is assessed on coursework (pass/fail).

The expectation is that students attend all scheduled learning and teaching sessions.

If there are exceptional circumstances which result in a student being unable to fulfill this, the student should discuss these with the Course Lead.

Programme/module requirements, including those attendance, must be met and students are responsible for making good work missed through absence.

Knowledge and Understanding:

Successful students will typically:

• Know and understand how their own attitudes, values and beliefs influence the way they work with families through explanation and reflection
• Know and understand the significance of issues affecting the complexity of family life through deepening their understanding
• Know and understand how to demonstrate the relevance and importance of multi-agency working.

Skills and Attributes:

Successful students will typically:

• Know and understand how to produce a case study alongside a family and use appropriate theoretical models to evaluate the significance of the support.
• Know and understand how to evaluate and develop professional and interpersonal communication in order to work effectively and ethically alongside families.

Scheduled Teaching, campus−based activities in general teaching spaces (e.g.lectures, 20 seminars, tutorials) 22 hours

Scheduled campus−based activities in specialist teaching spaces (e.g practical classes, 25 workshops, demonstrations) 10 hours

Directed independent study 68 hours

Self-directed independent study 200 hours

Total hours 300

 You will undertake a work-based assignment to critically reflect on your practice with families and generate ideas for developing your practice.