Childhood and parenting
2.4.1 Reflection -Online Journal Entries (2 x 250 words)
Weight: 20% Type of Collaboration: Length: 500 words Curriculum Mode: Reflection
As part of the attendance requirements for this unit you are required to access vUWS every week for around one hour. During this time you will have opportunity to access additional learning resources (such as websites, news articles and media clips) relevant to the weekly topics and/or the unit as a whole. These materials should be viewed in conjunction with the set readings and both sets of resources should be used as stimulus for your posts in your reflective online journal. Reflections MUST consider the online material and/or readings (it is not compulsory to reflect on tutorials and lectures).
Journal entries should summarise and critically reflect on key concepts/theories and/or issues/topics covered in the online material and readings. Students are expected to engage in reflexivity when completing this task. In other words, they are expected to reflect on their own social, cultural and/or historical positioning, including their own beliefs, assumptions and practices, in relation to unit content.
Note that this assessment is aligned with learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3. In this assessment, you are expected to:
— Recognise and described the family and intimate relationships as socially constituted
— Describe the contemporary diversity of family and intimate relationship forms both in our own and across cultures
— Provide evidence for the historical specificity of family forms and intimate relationships.
The word limit is 250 words per entry and 500 words in total. This word limit does not include references. While the journal is private (only accessible to the student, the unit coordinator and tutor) and should indicate the student’s personal learning experience, it should be scholarly in nature (so written in an academic style and with appropriate referencing).
The student may write in first or third person for this task. There is not a minimum number of references that need to be included in journal entries.
Two 250 word journal entries (Journal Entry One and Journal Entry Two) are to be submitted this semester. Each entry is worth 10% for a total of 20% of the final mark.
Journal Entry One:
Journal Entry One is due on Friday of Week 3 (5pm on the 6th of August). Journal Entry One is a reflection on the following topic:
— Week 2 content: Families and intimate life across time, generations and culture
Journal Entry Two:
Journal Entry Two is due on Friday of Week 7 (5pm on the 3rd of September). Journal Entry two is a reflection on one of the following topics:
— Week 5 content: Marriage and cohabitation OR — Week 7 content: Childhood and parenting
