Deconstructing Homelessness: Feedback & Development
Feedback is integral to this course’s development, it is why it’s been run openly and at no cost during its development to obtain as much feedback as possible from a wide selection of demographics, professions, and circumstance.
This page demonstrates how the feedback that’s been received has directly changed the teaching and delivery of the course over time.
Deconstructing Homelessness: First Iteration
January 17 - February 19 2026
Ballajura Library
Access & Accessibility:
Terminology
Feedback during the first 3 weeks of the course showed that there was an issue with the amount of terminology within the course, and that the level of assumed knowledge was too high.
Solution: Incorporate more definitions within the session, and supply an easy to understand glossary for every session.
Text Heavy Slides
Feedback at the end of the course showed that many of the slides were text heavy and the impacts this could have on some participants , especially if there’s participants with dyslexia.
Solution: Move non-important text to the notes section rather than being displayed.
Course Structure:
Session Length
Some of the sessions struggled with 90 minutes, especially Week 2 which was an overview of Housing policies from 1901 to present. Additionally, some weeks weren’t able to have as much discussion due to session length.
Solution: Extend session from 90 minutes to two hours.
Dense Topics
As above, some topics were identified to be too dense. Week 1 and Week 2 of the first sessions were identified as needing changes. Week 1 needed more focus on empathy, and Week 2 needed a break and/or to be split to allow for discussion and to achieve better learning outcomes.
Solution: Week 1 is split, with empathy being given a session on its own and Week 2 becomes the Adversarial Perspective. The previous Week 2 content is also split, with them becoming Week 3 and Week 4.