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Details of task: Scenario: You are tasked with the development of a critical analysis of the way a problem has been framed/conceptualised and translated into a social policy. The social policy analysis should provide a succinct summary and has been commissioned to inform key stakeholders (government but also people affected by the policy). You are required to develop this social policy analysis for ONE chosen topic which relates to an area of social work practice.
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Assessment Task 2 – Policy Discourse Analysis: Presentation
2.
K1—K4, S1,
S2-S5, A1, A4
Analyse key theoretical constructs which
underpin social policy development in the
context of social work practice.
Policy
Discourse
Analysis Presentation
30%
Due Date:
Word limit:
12 min (+/-10%)
Value:
30%
Rationale for the task: This task addresses the following Learning Outcomes:
K5. Apply theoretical frameworks of social policy analysis to a particular area of social work
practice, including mental health policy, social and economic inequities related to First Nations
Peoples and Communities and family violence and;
K6. Apply relevant theoretical frameworks of social policy analysis to advocate for social policy
reform in diverse practice settings.
S3. Determine the impacts the policy process has at the community, organisational, worker and
service user levels;
S4. Develop skills to advocate for social policy reform in diverse practice settings and;
S5. Interpret social policy in relation to core social work values.
A1. Demonstrate an understanding of the key theoretical constructs which underpin social
policy development;
A2. Critically analyse the social construction of social problems;
A4. Apply relevant theoretical frameworks of social policy analysis to a particular area of social
work practice and;
A5. Articulate the link between social work’s core values and social policy.
Details of task:
Scenario: You are tasked with the development of a critical analysis of the way a problem has
been framed/conceptualised and translated into a social policy. The social policy analysis
should provide a succinct summary and has been commissioned to inform key stakeholders
(government but also people affected by the policy). You are required to develop this social
policy analysis for ONE chosen topic which relates to an area of social work practice.
IMPORTANT: This assignment is based on Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach (see the reading list
for this course). You should become thoroughly familiar with this approach and work through
the seminar 1 lecture slides. You find a number of examples of discourse analyses of policies
relevant to social work in Bacchi’s book. In addition, the case studies we will analyse in seminar
2 will assist you to make sense of this task.
The Policy Discourse Analysis Presentation will explore how ONE social problem has been
constructed by discourses providing examples of alternative representations of the same
problem that have been silenced. At the core of this assignment are the questions at the core of
Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach:
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What’s the problem represented to be in the policy in question?
What presuppositions or assumptions underlie this representation of the problem?
How has this representation of the problem come about?
What is left unproblematic in this problem representation? what are the silences? Can
the problem be thought about differently?
• What effects are produced by this representation of the problem?
Students should be prepared to deliver the presentation in class AND upload a recording of the
presentation via Moodle.
Assessment Criteria:
The course coordinator or tutor will assess this task. Students are to submit this task via
Moodle, using Turnitin. Students will receive written feedback via Moodle. The criteria and
weighting are as follows:
Marking Criteria for Presentation (30%)
Criteria
High
Distinction
Distinction
Credit
Pass
Fail
Capacity to
generate a
logically
coherent
Social Policy
Analysis
(SPA) that
contrasts
current
positions,
ideologies,
and
thinking
with AASW
guidelines
(8 marks)
High level
Capacity to
generate a
logically
coherent SPA
that contrasts
current
positions,
ideologies, and
thinking with
AASW
guidelines.
Very good
Capacity to
generate a
logically
coherent SPA
that contrasts
current
positions,
ideologies, and
thinking with
AASW
guidelines.
Good level of
Capacity to
generate a
logically
coherent SPA
that contrasts
current
positions,
ideologies,
and thinking
with AASW
guidelines.
Some gaps
remain.
Acceptable level of
Capacity to
generate a
logically coherent
SPA that contrasts
current positions,
ideologies, and
thinking with
AASW guidelines.
Major gaps or
omissions.
Failure to
demonstrate
acceptable
Capacity to
generate a
logically
coherent
SPA that
contrasts
current
positions,
ideologies,
and thinking
with AASW
guidelines.
Capacity to
develop a
clear and
wellarticulated
response to
the
assignment
core
elements (8
marks)
High level
Capacity to
develop a clear
and wellarticulated
response to
the assignment
core elements
Very Good
Capacity to
develop a clear
and wellarticulated
response to
the
assignment
core elements
Good Capacity
to develop a
clear and wellarticulated
response to
the
assignment
core elements.
Some gaps
remain.
Adequate Capacity
to develop a clear
and wellarticulated
response to the
assignment core
elements. Major
gaps and/or
inconsistencies are
present.
Failure to
demonstrate
adequate
Capacity to
develop a
clear and
wellarticulated
response to
the
assignment
core
elements
Capacity to
justify
responses
making use
of a wide
range of
credible
sources (8
marks)
Excellent
Capacity to
justify
responses
making use of
key credible
sources
Very good
Capacity to
justify
responses
making use of
a range of
credible
sources
Good Capacity
to justify
responses
making use of
some credible
sources. Gaps
remain.
Acceptable
Capacity to justify
responses making
use of a small
number/basic (i.e.
Wikipedia)
sources. There are
major gaps or
inconsistencies.
Failure to
demonstrate
acceptable
Capacity to
justify
response
making use
of no or
flawed
sources (i.e.
failure to
check
credibility of
sources)
Presentation,
Structure, and
Referencing (6
marks)
Excellent
structure and
presentation
and
appropriate
spelling,
grammar and
punctuation;
Very good
structure and
presentation
and
appropriate
spelling,
grammar and
punctuation;
Good
structure and
presentation
and
appropriate
spelling,
grammar and
punctuation;
Acceptable
structure and
presentation
and
appropriate
spelling,
grammar and
punctuation;
Failure to
demonstrate
acceptable
structure and
presentation
and
appropriate
spelling,
use of APA and
appropriate
language.
use of APA;
and
appropriate
language.
use of APA;
and
appropriate
language.
use of APA;
and
appropriate
language.
grammar and
punctuation;
use of APA; and
appropriate
language.
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