SACSA Framework

Equity Futures

Professional Development

Introducing a series of 6 Professional Learning Modules

• The Equity Futures Professional Development Modules promote the understanding of the central position of equity in curriculum to support success for all learners and a just and productive society.

Overview

Further readings and references• Department of Education, Training and Employment, General Introduction,

SACSA Framework, 2001• Corson, D, Changing Education for Diversity, OUP 1998• Cox, E, A truly civil society, Boyer Lectures, ABC Books, 1995• Hutchinson, F.P, Educating beyond violent futures, Routledge, 1996.• Horacek, J, If the fruit fits – Hodder 1999• www.horacek.com.au• Mac Naughton, G, Power Point presentation on Critical Constructivism,

Learning to Learn Expo, Adelaide, 2001• Mac Naughton,G, and Williams, G, Techniques for teaching young children,

Longman, 1998• Tiddy, J, It’s just not fair: Overcoming discrimination in Australia, ABC

Books, 2001• Kenway, J and Bullen, E, Consuming children: education – entertainment –

advertising, OUP, 2001• Mac Naughton, G, Rolfe, S, Siraj – Blatchford, I, Doing Early Childhood

Research, International Perspectives on Theory and Practice, Allen & Unwin, 2001

• Connell, R. W, The Men and the Boys, Allen & Unwin, 2000• Connell, R. W, Male Roles, Masculinity and Violence: A culture of Peace,

Paris UNESCO, 2000• Connell, R. W, Schools and Social Justice, Pluto Press, 1993

The Modules

1. Social and Cultural Diversity2. Critical Constructivist Approaches and Equity3. Groups of Learners and Equity Cross-

curriculum Perspectives4. Equity Cross-curriculum Perspectives,

Essential Learnings and Enterprise and Vocational Education

5. Equity through the Learning Areas6. Curriculum Policy for Equity Futures.