CQUniversity Unit Profile.

In order to understand the safety and education needs within a community and the variables that impact upon safety and education, you need to understand the concepts of community and community resilience. These concepts are foundational and from their broad conceptual view you can plan and develop broadly applicable and more importantly for this unit, specific community safety and education activities. Given this, in assessment task one you will focus on your understanding of these core concepts and what they tell us about the safety and education needs and the variables present within a given community.

Assessment Task One is broken into two separate but linked sections. In section one you will argue your understanding of the concept of community, and how that links to the academic literature and to the views of your fellow students. In section two you will argue your understanding of the concept of community resilience, and how that links to the academic literature and to the views of your fellow students.

Therefore, the assessment task is based on your engagement with the unit content, the broader academic literature and the posts you and your fellow students make to the activity forums. In your response to each section, you will need to incorporate ideas from two activity posts: one of your own posts plus at least one from another student in the group. As such:

Section 1) Using your own forum post(s) as a basis, you will argue for your understanding of the concept of community and how that links to the broader academic literature and to what at least one other post from the group says.

Section 2) Using your own forum post(s) as a basis, you will argue for your understanding of the concept of community resilience and how that links to the broader literature and to what at least one other post from the group says.

Note: You may utilise the forum post of your fellow students to support your view or you may utilise it to contrast with your view. A copy of the selected forum posts must be included as a separate section. Sections 1) and 2) combined will be up to 1000 - 1400 words, not including the copy of the forum posts. The copy of the forum posts is therefore in addition to the word count. Importantly, your response must be supported by appropriate literature (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric).

Presentation Guidelines

Assessment one is submitted via Moodle. You are free to present the response in a written format that best suits you, however, it must include:

a) Title page

b) Response to concept of community,

c) Response to the concept of community resilience.

d) Direct copy of the forum posts being utilised (NOT included in word count)

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

However, broadly you will be assessed on:

• Knowledge of the concept of community and community resilience
• Application of knowledge and skills in relation to the concept of community and community resilience
• Communication and presentation

In assessment task two you will explore the notion of safety and education and more particularly safety and education in relation to a group and/or geographic location you choose and real-life safety and education activities. As such, assessment task two is broken into two separate but linked sections.

Section 1) In section 1) you will select a real-life safety and education activity from the nine (9) examples provided to you in the “Tailored Examples” page in Theme One of the Moodle site. Once you have selected your activity, you must analyse the activity and answer the following questions:

• What is the name of the activity?
• Who produced the activity?
• What is the target group/ and or target location of the activity?
• What is one characteristic of this group and/ or geographic location? How is this characteristic conceptualised in two (2) separate pieces of literature?
• What is the broad aim of the activity?
• What are the key messages of the activity?
• How is the activity delivered to the target audience?
• What is one strength and limitation of this approach?
• In what ways is the activity specifically targeted to meet the needs of the group and/or geographic location?
• Why might these choices have been made (in relation to your group and/ or geographic location)?

Section 2) In section 2), you select a specific group from within the broader community and/or a geographical location that you would like to explore in more detail and conduct an analysis. Firstly, you will identify and provide an overview of the group and/or geographic location and use the literature to support your discussion. You will then identify and using appropriate literature (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric) explore specific characteristics or attributes of the group and/ or geographic location, for example (but not limited to), language, cultural characteristics, issues of mobility, geographic features such as isolation, being flood or cyclone prone and so forth. You will then discuss how these characteristics or attributes may impact or influence community safety and education for the group and/or geographic location.

Presentation Guidelines:

You are free to present the response in a written format that best suits you, however, will be 1500 – 1800 words (approx.) and must include a:

a) Title page;

b) Section 1;

c) Section 2.

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:

• Knowledge of community safety and education
• Skills in community safety and education
• Application of knowledge and skills in community safety and education
• Communication and presentation of knowledge and skills

Assessment Task Three draws on your work from assessment task one and two and allows you to plan a real-life activity. In this assessment task you will take the group and/or geographical location you selected in assessment task two, and then propose a safety and education activity and its implementation. Importantly, you will also discuss the ways in which you would involve the group itself in implementing the activity that is, your collaboration with the group and/ or geographical location. Therefore, the community safety and education activity must be suitable for use within a group context and plan to be implemented in collaboration with a group.

As such, Assessment Task Three consists of two sections, including:

Section 1) You will select an existing community safety issue, for example, flood safety, bushfire safety, water safety and propose a community safety and education activity which is specifically tailored to your chosen group and/or geographic location. Using references (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric) to support your work, you will answer the following questions:

• What is the aim of your proposed activity?
• What are the key messages of the activity?
• Who is the target group and/ or geographic location?
• Why are these messages important, and in particular, to your chosen group and/ or location?
• What does the chosen activity look like (what are its elements)?
• Why have you proposed it to look this way (why have you selected these particular elements)?

Note: Using the literature (please refer to the assessment criteria rubric), you must provide a rationale for your specific choices above.

Section 2) Copy of the implementation plan for the proposed activity. The implementation plan must clearly articulate a collaboration with the intended target group and/ or geographic location (and others as is appropriate). For example, what steps you propose to be taken, who will be involved in those steps. Again, using the literature you must provide a rationale for the particular approach.

Presentation Guidelines:

You are free to construct the response in a style that best suits you and your activity (including, if useful, images or pictures). The submitted assessment will be up to 2000 words and include as a minimum:

a) Title page;

b) Community safety and education activity and rationale;

c) Implementation plan for the activity and rationale for your implementation choices.

The assessment criteria for this unit are in the form of a detailed rubric which is available from the Moodle site. However, broadly you will be assessed on:

• The analysis of contemporary community safety issues
• The design of the community safety and education activity
• The collaborative approach to safety and education
• The presentation of the written task.