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Diversity and community work in occupational therapy29397/4115/1819/1/66
Study guide

Diversity and community work in occupational therapy

29397/4115/1819/1/66
Academic year 2018-19
Is found in:
  • English programme for Health, Education and Welfare, programme stage 2
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 3 credits
Weight: 3,00
Total study time: 75,00 hours
Possible deadlines for learning account: 15.03.2019 ()

Organisation of education

Teaching Activities, Learning Activities, Assessment Activities
Lecture10,00 hours
Self-study30,00 hours
Seminar10,00 hours
Supervised independent work25,00 hours
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Special admission is required to enrol in this course unit under credit contract.
Co-ordinator: Engelen Anne-Marie
Other teaching staff: Bens Ann, De Keyser Wivina
Language course: No
Languages: English
Scheduled for: Semester 2

Objectives

Describe the concept diversity in relation to the context (Knowledge, Comprehension)
Describe the concept multiculturalism in relation to the context (Knowledge, Comprehension)
Describe the concept of contextual thinking (Knowledge, Comprehension)
Relate perceived diversity and communities to the concept of contextual thinking (Application)
Derive social needs by analyzing the context (Application)
Recognize and illustrate possible occupational therapy tasks within community work (Application)

Contents

The course unit comprises the following parts:
Diversity with a focus on ethnicity, religion, language, gender, ...
Multiculturalism
Diversity within society
Analysing social needs within an occupational context
Community work

Order of enrolment

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Final objectives

The student is able to discourse about his own professional acting, starting from an awareness of his or her own frame of reference and insight in the social & psychosocial context

Final objectives

LO 9: Follow, as occupational therapists, relevant social trends and developments within a national and international framework.

LO10: Consider ethical, deontological and diversity-related aspects in their professional activities.

Teaching methods

  • Learning dialogue
  • Activating lecture
  • Guest speaker or lecture/Testimony

Organisation of education

Lecture with activating teaching methods
Task based learning

Study guidance

Guidance on appointment
Use of electronic learning environment
Questions via email

Evaluation

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
PeriodicWritten examination100,00
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
MomentForm%Remark
PeriodicWritten examination100,00

Evaluation

The first examination period:
Examination methods in case of periodic evaluation during the first examination period:
Written examination with open ended questions (80 % of the marks)
A project: product evaluation (20% of the marks)


In case of legitimate absence, the student will receive an alternative task: the ability to do this is done in consultation the head of degree programme, the learning path coach and the responsable lector.

Cf. EER HoGhent (2017-2018) and EER-Faculty Education, Health and Social Work (2017-2018)

The second examination period:
Examination methods in case of periodic evaluation during the second examination period:
An analogous exam is organized during the resits

Cf. EER HoGhent (2017-2018) and EER-Faculty Education, Health and Social Work (2017-2018)

Other study materials

Didactic teaching material (Powerpoint, personal notes, articles related to the teaching and discussion topics) offered on the electronic learning platform Chamilo HoGent.

Study costs

Estimated study costs: 5 euro

Key words

Diversity

Community work