Lesson Plan

Frame: Scholarship as Conversation

Duration: 80 minutes
Discipline: 1st year Psychology students
Topic: What is child abuse: different types of child abuse





Overview of the lesson:


Duration: 10 minutes


The teacher will introduce students to the topic of child abuse as it is the current issue and a big challenge in South Africa. Learners will be given a topic to present about on different types of child abuse. All 4 groups will be required to engage in topics presented by other groups. Four (4) groups of 5 learners per group will be given the following topics to present about for duration of 40 minutes, with 10 minutes per group:




Group 1: Physical abuse
Group 2: Sexual abuse
Group 3: Emotional abuse
Group 4: Child neglect


Learners will be given 30 minutes to prepare their presentations.


Learning outcome
Activity

Identify the contribution that particular articles, books, and other scholarly pieces make to disciplinary knowledge
To prepare for presentations, learners will have to find 2 scholarly articles on the topic they are presenting and identify 2 conferences that recently took place on the discussion of child abuse issues and what was discussed and said on the topic

Learners will recognize that they are both contributors and consumers of scholarly information
During the presentations, all groups will be required to engage on the conversation and give their own experiences of child abuse incidents that they once came across in their communities and how they would have dealt with the situation as the professionals.

Learners will recognize that a given scholarly work may not represent the only or even the majority perspective on the issue
Look at least 1 website (like Social Development) and make notes of the topics discussed relating to your topic.









Dispositions


Learning outcome & activity 1 - seek out conversations taking place in their research area.
Learning outcome & activity 2 -Learners will understand the responsibility that comes with entering the conversation through participatory channels;
Learning outcome & activity 3 - suspend judgment on the value of a particular piece of scholarship until the larger context for the scholarly conversation is better understood.

Comments

  1. Shehaamah15 September 2017 at 06:16

    Well done Fikiswa. This is much better now. You can be more specific with you third activity. For instance, they can find a website which discusses chiled abuse and they can also engage with professionals on the subjust either on blogs, at clinics, Twitter etc.

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  2. Shehaamah15 September 2017 at 06:20

    You were also supposed to show me the link between the activities and the knowledge practices.

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