Task type
Indo-Pacific health challenge scenario
Task description
You will be presented with a real-world case scenario of a health challenge confronting an Indo-Pacific community that directly relates to the current climate emergency. You will analyse the scenario, exploring how community practice principles are being applied. You will then provide suggestions for how the challenges being experienced could be responded to by engaging decolonising, Indigenising, and sustainability approaches. Finally, you will reflect on the questions that remain unanswered for you after analysing the current and proposed responses to the scenario.
Task length
2,000 words
Task to assess these Intended Learning Outcomes
ILO 1: Describe a diversity of community practices undertaken by social workers and human service practitioners within and outside Australia
ILO 2: Analyse the contested nature of sustainable community development
ILO 3: Discuss decolonising, Indigenising, and sustainability focused community practices
ILO 4: Evaluate and respond to conventional Western-centric community practice approaches
Assessment criteria
Criterion 1: Analyse community practice principles being applied within a scenario (30%)
Criterion 2: Propose a community practice response that is decolonising, and informed by Indigenisation and social and cultural sustainability (40%)
Criterion 3: Reflect on the questions that have been raised for you whilst engaging with the scenario (30%)
See the marking rubric for assessment criteria and standards for this task. Rubric Assessment Task 3 – Indo-Pacific health challenge scenario.pdf (pdf, 131.8KB)
Submission requirements
Submit your file to the Assessment Task 3 Assignment Submission Folder before the due date.
For more information on submitting files, see this Guide to Submitting an Assignment
Contribution to final assessment
40%
Date due
Week 13: 28th May 2025 at 4.00pm
Use of GenAI
For this assessment task, GenAI use is not permitted. Your own ideas are required to be successful. With this task, we need you to demonstrate that you can identify, analyse and articulate different aspects of community practice.
Please see the university’s AI information for students and the library’s Referencing guide: AI use
If you are found to have used generative AI to complete this assessment, it will constitute an academic breach and will be dealt with according to UTAS policies and procedures: Academic Integrity – Process and FAQ’s
Rationale
This task aims to provide you with an understanding and greater awareness of how community practices occur within an international setting. You are provided with the opportunity to analyse and propose approaches to responding to the challenge presented, as well as reflect on questions raised during the processes.
Details of the Health Challenge
This task focuses on an Indo-Pacific country Kiribati. Kiribati is a real country, and the challenges we explore as part of this task are being experienced right now.
The documents below provide the details of the challenges being experienced in Kiribati in terms of childhood nutrition. The first document provides you with a case study. The second provides background details.
Assessment Task 3 – Kiribati Case Study.pdf (pdf, 66.2KB)
Assessment Task 3 – Kiribati Background Information.pdf (pdf, 452.3KB)
Task Instructions
Please be guided by the following topics, which relate directly to the assessment criteria and rubric.
1: Provide an analysis of the community practice principles/approaches/perspectives being applied within Kiribati (approx. 600 words).
This analysis can be broadly based on the challenges being experienced in Kiribati. That is, it does not need to only focus on childhood nutrition.
Within the two documents, there is information provided about what has already been/is being done in response to the challenges being experiences in Kiribati. Given this is a real example, many of the projects/programs/initiatives have information available online that you can utilise in this section. The ‘Appendices’ section of the Background information document also has resources that you might like to engage with.
2: Propose a community practice response that is decolonising, and informed by Indigenisation and sustainability (approx. 800 words)
This is your opportunity to provide detail about how the workers involved in the case study could respond to the challenge of childhood nutrition. Given the project being implemented is a 2-year project, you may want to focus on a broader approach to the project. Alternatively, you could focus in on a period of time or an aspect of what might be the larger project.
In this section, explore your positioning within the proposed response.
- Reflect on the questions that have been raised for you whilst engaging with the scenario (approx. 600 words).
What is written in this section will be different for each student. Each person will have different questions that are raised for them at different points of engaging with this task. You might like to keep notes of questions or ‘reflective moments’ that occur for you so that you can keep track of them.
Referencing
You are expected to write and reference according to academic and professional standards. You can use either Harvard or APA referencing style, however, be consistent in your usage. Please also note that since January 2025, the UTAS library no longer supports Harvard referencing, only APA. Refer to the Utas Library referencing page for guidance.
Guidelines for presenting your assignment
Please follow the guidelines below for setting out your written assignment. You can format this however you want – so long as it is clearly set out and easy to read.
You do not need a cover sheet.
Please submit to MyLO Assignments as a Word document or a pdf.
Do not go over 2,200 words in total for this assignment (2,000 words+10%). Marks will be deducted if you go over this limit. Being able to write concisely is an important skill in social work. Word count excludes the Reference List. Word count includes everything else including in-text references and headings.
