Before we can educate others, we need to be comfortable with our own understanding of community, safety and education. What safety issue captures your interest? The safety issue you choose will form the basis of your assessments.

Assessment 1 requires two tasks. Task one requires you to create and populate a Pinterest board with items relevant to your chosen safety topic. Items may include websites, news/journal articles, videos, books, images etc. You must have at least 10 items uploaded to your Pinterest board, one of which must be a book. Task two requires you to assess the items of your Pinterest board and develop a concise but analytical written piece of 750 words. It will analyse the safety and education needs within your designated community and appraise your community’s receptivity to education. At a minimum, your written piece should include a screen shot of your Pinterest board and answer the following questions:

• What community have you targeted?
• What story does your Pinterest board tell about the safety and education needs of your community?
• Using the Preston et al. (2015) article, what type of educational intervention would work in your identified community? Why?

Specific details about using Pinterest and other resources are available on the Moodle.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site.

Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Analysing safety and education needs of an identified community
• Appraising how certain characteristics impact community safety and education
• Communicating a clear and compelling curation of safety education

Building upon your findings from Assessment 1, you will examine your safety issue in-depth. You will investigate the factors that shape an understanding of your issue as well as evaluate a contemporary perspective on community-based learning. Communicating your understanding of safety issues to a broader audience helps to enhance learning in a range of settings and requires collaboration.

Assessment 2 requires you to write a 1500-word book review. You may use the book nominated in Assessment 1 or you may choose a new book. The aim of this book review is to provide the community with a critical assessment of a book relevant to the safety field. It is a balance between description and analysis. Your submission must be high level analysis, capable of being published in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management. At minimum your review should cover the following:

• A description of the purpose of the book with a summary of the contents
• An overview of the root causes of the safety issues
• Your view on the assumptions this book makes about safety and/or community-based learning
• Your view on the contributions this book makes to safety education
• Based on what you learned, a strategy to collaborate with an individual or community 

Specific details and resources are available on the Moodle.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site.

Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Appraising the root causes of an identified safety issue
• Evaluating the assumptions of a contemporary perspective on safety and community-based learning
• Strategising a collaborative approach
• Communicating a persuasive and compelling contribution to the field

Education is a basic element of social change. A community strength-based approach to safety education places you as a facilitator to help others broaden their understanding of their own lives. By understanding their own lives, people may then be able to strategise changes in response to emergency and disaster situations. The problem-posing educational approach introduced in this unit exemplifies an educational opportunity to develop a discussion starter and strategise actions in response to the safety issue proposed. Given this, in Assessment Task Three, you will focus on the application of this problem-posing educational approach to formulate a safety and education activity.

Assessment Task Three is a recorded PechaKucha presentation with annotated speaker notes documenting your problem-posing educational approach. A PechaKucha is a recorded PowerPoint presentation of 20 images with 20 seconds allocated to each image. There are three main parts to this presentation: naming, dialogue & reflection and strategy. To reflect a community strength-based approach, you will be collaborating with a classmate, a work colleague or a member of the identified community you had nominated in Assessment Task One to complete the activities of the problem-posing educational approach.

When designing this presentation, the following questions must be answered:

NAMING

1. What does the literature say about your identified issue?

DIALOGUE AND REFLECTION

2. What is your discussion starter of the identified issue?

3. What were the results of the problem-posing discussion with your collaborator?

STRATEGY

4. What feasible strategies were discussed?

5. What aspect(s) of this problem-posing process will you develop into a safety education activity?

6. How is this problem-posing approach useful for safety and community-based learning? (Using the literature, you must provide a rationale for or refutation of this approach)

Note that there are six points that need to be covered. It is up to you to decide how you will allocate the remaining 14 slides (for a total of 20 slides). You will need to include your annotated speech directly into the speaker note section of the PowerPoint presentation.

Specific details and resources are available on the Moodle.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site.

Broadly, you will be assessed on:

• Creating a discussion starter
• Evidencing your collaborative approach
• Formulating an educational activity
• Evaluating the problem-posing approach for safety and community-based learning
• Communicating a concise and visually appealing presentation