Certificates

25 Social Justice Certificates

The Certificate Program aims for Skill Development for Social Justice Effectiveness. Important: We anticipate Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and Higher Education Institution accreditation of these Certificates shortly, including articulation arrangements with TAFEs and Universitites.

List of Certificates and component modules:

A Certificate can be earned by combining any five modules from those listed within that Certificate.  The most common form of ERISJ module is a 1-day Intensive. 

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Intensives

 Certificate Costing Structure

Reminder: A Certificate usually comprises five days of event participation.

Daily rates per 1-day Intensive (i.e.per Module)

Participant Category	Cost	Buy Online	Comments
Unwaged / Student	$25.00		Under 18s, TAFE and University students; low income, disability or other adult concession card.  Proof of ID required.
Retiree	$35.00
Waged Adult	$50.00
NGO	$100.00		NGOs and educational institutions
Corporate / Government	$150.00		Corporate and Government
Optional assessment	$25		Not eligible for concession or discount.
Optional book purchase (see below) + advance posting to you	$40		For book + postage within Australia; $45 if overseas.  Not eligible for concession or discount.
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Refreshments - One-day Intensives include a generous morning and afternoon tea.  We do not provide lunch or coffee on arrival.
Optional Book Purchase - Some Intensives include the option of purchasing a pertinent book(s) of the Presenter, posted to you in advance (maximising what you gain from the day). 
Participants are encouraged (but not required) to read a particular book or article(s) of the presenter, who will present their claims in detail, in person and in user-friendly fashion, engaging with the audience and their experiences. 

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Certificate Objectives and Outcomes

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1. The ERISJ builds community commitment, skills and action for social justice;
2. Certificate-holders perceive social justice as perhaps the greatest ethical issue of our time, and hence among the worthiest of activities that they will ever undertake;
3. organisations committed to social justice can access induction therein of their staff, volunteers, members and supporters;
4. an ongoing cycle of skill formation, social action, further skilling and further social action commences for justice supporters.  This action-reflection dynamic recognises that human growth is always gradual – often slow - and requires ongoing support, debriefing, sense-making, input and new challenges;
5. Certificates support the development of Aboriginal leadership skills;
6. Certificates support non-Aboriginal persons to deepen their understanding of, and engagement with, Aboriginal Australia;
7. the total number of persons who are skilful, quietly confident, active for justice and resolved to remain workers for justice increases;
8. this increase is mirrored in a corresponding increase in the effectiveness of social justice work, and its impact upon individual lives and the public sphere alike;
9. that this list of module and Certificate titles is itself educative about ‘what it takes’ to do social justice work effectively;
10. Certificate programs connect participants, and stimulate ongoing support and action networks;
11. Certificate-holders grasp that if social change is sought, majority rule embraced and violence rejected as the means to change, the sole option that remains is to be persuasive in the public sphere.  This will require great perseverance and skill;
12. environmentalism comes to be understood as part of the social justice agenda, and vice versa.  Reasons for this include resource consumption disparities that are as environmentally unsustainable as they are socially inequitable, the affluence-waste correlation, and the significance of clean water, air and food for human development.  The diversion of global wealth into the arms industry kills people twice over.  Social justice and environmentalism aspire similarly to the integrity, dignity and wellbeing of all living things, and regard indigenous reverence for the environment as instructive.
13. Certificate-holders embrace an inner life that, when entering into political conflicts that inevitably accompany working for change, do so from a stance of love for humanity rather than hatred of political adversaries;
14. Certificate-holders possess sufficient resilience as to avoid the ‘shooting star’ persona that is momentarily incandescent only to imminently vanish.  The combination of a substantial inner life, support networks and skills that increase the frequency of success will contribute to activist longevity;
15. Certificate-holders grasp the difference between charity and justice, and that the latter is no less – and perhaps ultimately more – significant for human wellbeing than the former
16. weaknesses in the Social Justice traditions be conceded and addressed in a form that strengthens rather than compromises justice work.  The work is sufficiently vital that it matters when it proceeds from insufficient skills, insight, resilience or clarity relative to its objectives or capacity to inspire others;
17. A principle vehicle is provided through which the ERISJ services its Focus Areas:

• transformative social justice education and service learning;
• engage with and building a community for social justice;
• foster research in areas of social justice;
• support advocacy and action; and to
• ensure that the Institute and its programs are sustainable.

18. Certificate-holders grasp that the credibility of the ‘social justice agenda’ is partially evaluated by the public by the extent to which its advocates act as ethically as the values they commend to their societies.  This in turn may require an inner life that includes self-awareness of one’s ‘shadow side’;
19. the location of this Certificate Program within tertiary education and professional development affirms an appropriate significance to be accorded social justice; and
20. contributes to the ultimate objective that individual and collective dignity and wellbeing become more universally present.

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Technical Details

• A Certificate can be earned by combining any five days from the offerings listed within that Certificate.  The most common – but not the only - form of ERISJ event is a 1-day Intensive;
• The title of each Certificate is indicated below in Bold, with its component selection of one-day Intensives itemised underneath;
• Some Intensives are offered within two or more Certificates.  You cannot obtain ‘double-credit’ toward two Certificates from participation in a particular ERISJ event.  You can only credit each Intensive toward the one Certificate; and
• You will see below that each event is followed by a bracketed year. The nominated year indicates the first year this event is offered. It is thereafter offered at least once each year.

Presenters are variously ERISJ staff and experts brought in for the day.  Our education and training has two target audiences, each casting a wide net.  We provide opportunities for all members of the public to attend our events out of general interest, shared values or a desire for skill acquisition, inspiration or personal development.  Our second target group shares such motivations and, additionally, seeks certification of their new skills.  Thus our Certificates are offered in two streams: with and without assessment (indicated on the Certificate). The former pertains to Universities and TAFEs that require written or other assessment).  The latter applies to Professional or personal Development that requires only attendance.
There are over 220 days per year available to individuals and institutions to customise their Social Justice education and training.  Each day works both in its own right and in tandem with other days.  Modular delivery means that we simultaneously offer:

• content that we invite Universities and TAFEs to accredit as if their own Units. (Two Universities already do so.);
• Professional Development suitable for many occupations.  A number of workplaces currently recognise our events as official PD for their employees, and many more have signalled an intention to do so.  Some workplaces pay employee registration fees and provide paid time-off to attend our events; and
• 25 ERISJ Certificates of Social Justice Competence.  Each Certificate credits a particular field of SJ experience and capacity, and requires attendance at 5 one-day Intensives or equivalent.  We anticipate Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and Higher Education Institution accreditation of these Certificates shortly, including articulation arrangements with TAFEs and Universities.

A Certificate is also offered upon Immersion completion.  Immersions vary between 4 days’ duration (Perth), 2 weeks (Broome) and 3 weeks (India, Timor-Leste and Tanzania). 

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