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 in this unit. Once you have selected a safety issue to focus your assessment on, you will need to also select a community of interest who is related to or impacted by the issue. For example, if I choose road safety as a safety issue, then the community might be young drivers in NSW under age 25 years. You can select the community based on geographical location (Melbourne community), identity (e.g., Greek community), and/or similar interests (e.g., volunteer group). Following this, you will create a Pinterest board illustrating this safety issue and community, which you will need to seek feedback on through collaborative discussions with someone (e.g., co-worker, friend) and then improve it based on their suggestion(s). You will need to write a summary of this discussion and the recommended improvement in addition to how you have addressed their feedback. Lastly, you will write an analytical written piece analysing the safety issue, the chosen community, your collaborative discussion, and educational safety activities that are appropriate for the safety issue and the safety and education needs of the selected community. With the exception of the collaborative discussion with another person, the other components should draw on relevant academic literature.
Assessment 1 requires three parts.
Part one requires you to create and populate a Pinterest board with items relevant to your chosen safety topic and your chosen community. Items may include websites, news/journal articles, videos, books, images etc. You must have at least 10 items uploaded to your Pinterest board. These 10 items should include content (e.g., images, journal articles, websites) on your chosen safety topic AND chosen community, and at least one item must be an educational safety activity related to your chosen safety issue. The educational safety activity should relate to prevention, preparedness, response or recovery.
Part two requires you to find someone else (e.g., classmate, family member, coworker) to provide feedback on your Pinterest curation. In one or two sentences, can they summarise what your curation is about? Can they determine what your chosen safety issue is and the community you have chosen to focus on? From this person’s interpretation and understanding of your curation, they must provide at least one recommendation for improvement to your curation. For example, to include a different type of educational safety activity that might be more appropriate. In this assignment, you will need to thoroughly describe your collaborative discussions with this person and their recommendation(s) for improvement. Additionally, you must include some reflection of community education as relevant to the chosen safety issue and community of interest and discuss how you have improved the Pinterest curation based on the feedback that you received.
Part three requires you to assess the items of your Pinterest curation and develop a concise but analytical written piece of 750 words, whilst drawing on relevant academic literature. It will analyse the safety and education needs within your chosen community for the selected safety issue and based on this context, make evidence-informed judgements about appropriate educational safety activities concerning prevention, preparedness, response and/or recovery. It should be explicitly stated which category (prevention, preparedness, response, recovery) the educational safety activities fall under.
At minimum, your written piece should include a screen shot of your Pinterest curation and answer the following questions:
• What is your chosen safety issue?
• What community have you chosen to target?
• What story does your Pinterest board tell about the safety and education needs of your community?
• What was the summary statement about your Pinterest board that you received from your collaborator? How have you improved your Pinterest board based on their feedback? Based on your collaborative discussion, what reflections do you have concerning community education as relevant to the chosen safety issue and community of interest?
• What are suitable educational safety activities (concerning prevention, preparedness, response, recovery) for your chosen community based on their safety and education needs as related to the selected safety issue?