Advanced Humanities and Social Sciences Education unit (EPR360)

You will all engage with the unit through weekly lecture content, readings, assessment-linked tasks, tutorials, webinars, MyLO contributions, and through the completion of assignment work. You are expected to timetable 10 hours of study time per week, realising that this includes time spent reading or viewing resources provided to you, searching for additional information/resources necessary for the completion of assessment tasks and other activities, and participating in weekly tasks and webinar tutorials or assessment-focused briefings.

Your navigation around the various learning resources in MYLO should be fairly self-explanatory. Plenty of video material has been provided for you – often seeing is believing in terms of teaching practice!

We hope that you both enjoy this unit and that you find it professionally valuable.

You will need the following text:
Tudball, L., Brett, P., and Gilbert, R. (eds.) (2025). Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences: Teaching & Learning across Australia, (8th ed). Melbourne: Cengage.

This is the 8th edition of the textbook, but you may use the 7th edition if you already purchased it for EPR260. You can secure a 10% discount through using the offer code shared in MyLO. You also have the option of buying an e-book version rather than a hardcopy. Earlier editions of the text can also be helpful but become progressively further distanced from Australian Curriculum updates and recent academic references. Dr Peter Brett's lectures reference material in the 8th edition (2025) of the text. Individual chapters are also available in the 'Reading Lists' tab on the front page of MyLO.

Required readings - ECE students 
The above texts are relevant, but in your case the Green and Price text (especially) or Reynolds text are preferable to the Gilbert/Tudball/Brett text (they have a more sustained focus upon HASS with younger children). Also required (you almost certainly have them already). 
Arthur, L., Beecher, B., Death, E., Dockett, S., & Farmer, S. (2012). Programming and Planning in Early Childhood Settings (5th ed.). Port Melbourne, VIC: Cengage Learning.   
Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations [DEEWR]. (2009). The Early Years Learning Framework. Canberra, ACT

Recommended Readings will be useful for this Unit to develop your knowledge and understanding of teaching and course-specific content.  If you are seeking sources of evidence to support your assessment work, you will find these readings a useful starting point. There is no requirement to buy these texts/materials. 

• Buchanan, J. (2013), History, Geography and Civics: Teaching and learning in the primary years. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 
• Green, D. and Price, D. (Eds.) (2019). Making Humanities and Social Sciences Come Alive: Early Years and Primary Education. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 
• Reynolds, R. (2014). Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences in the Primary School (3rd edn.). Sydney: Oxford University Press. 
• Taylor T., Fahey, C., Kriewaldt, J. & Boon, D. (2012). Place and Time: Explorations in Teaching Geography and History. Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson.   

The journal publications listed below are highly recommended for further reading on the topics covered in the unit. You will be advised of additional sources through lectures and tutorials and are expected to refer to policy documents as appropriate: 

• Brett, P. (2018). Retrieving the civic dimension in history: Creating meaningful and memorable links between History and Civics and Citizenship in primary classrooms. The Social Educator, 36 (2) 15-29.  
• Heggart, K. R.  & Flowers, R. (2019). Justice Citizens, Active Citizenship, and Critical Pedagogy: Reinvigorating Citizenship Education. Democracy and Education, 27 (1), Article 2.  Available at: https://democracyeducationjournal.org/home/vol27/iss1/2
• Peterson, A. & Bentley, B. (2017). Education for citizenship in South Australian public schools: a pilot study of senior leader and teacher perceptions, The Curriculum Journal, 28:1, 105-122. 
• Tudball, L. & Henderson, D. (2014) Contested notions of civics and citizenship education as national education in the Australian curriculum. Curriculum and Teaching, 29(2), 5-24. 

You are required to read widely as appropriate for this unit. Key readings and chapters will be posted on-line. Journals such as Agora, Teaching Geography, Teaching History, and Social Education are valuable online sources accessible from the University of Tasmania Library Catalogue.

The Social Educator: The Journal of the Social and Citizenship Educators’ Association of Australia (SCEAA) has a strong Civics and Citizenship focus and is highly recommended reading. It is available from the UTAS data bases in A+ Education. For a variety of other texts related to specific teaching sessions see MyLO and the Library Reading List for this unit. I have made sure that there is a really good range of possible readings available to you via the Reading List that you can link to through MYLO.

Other Recommended Readings – ECE students 

• Ailwood, J., Brownlee, J., Johansson, E., Cobb-Moore, C., Walker, S.,& Boulton-Lewis, G. (2011). Educational policy for citizenship in the early years in Australia. Journal of Education Policy, 26 (5), 641-653 
• Browett, J. & Ashman, G. (2008). Thinking Globally: Global Perspectives in the Early Years Classroom. Vic: Curriculum Corporation  
• Brown, J. (2015). ‘Fostering Global Citizenship’. Every Child, Vol. 21 (1).   
• Davis, M. (Ed) (2010). Young Children and the Environment. Early Education for Sustainability. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.   
• Ebbeck, M. (2006). The Challenges of Global Citizenship: Some Issues for Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education. Childhood Education, 82(6). p. 353-357.  
• Phillips, L. (2010). Social justice storytelling and young children’s active citizenship. Discourse: S