Groupwork in Context (P01555)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EDU-P-GPWK

This course is concerned with processes of working and learning in groups in a context where social injustice requires sharply focused and robust educational responses. Students will gain a critical understanding of key aspects of individual and collective approaches to teaching and learning and gain knowledge and experience of a range of methods, from person-centred to social action approaches, and techniques involved in anti-discriminatory practice. In particular, participants will consider how groupwork can be dialogical or invasive, and how it can foster the capacity for critical thinking and dialogue and enable learners to develop strategies, tactics and practices to bring about desired change. The course will cover the theory and practice of investigation as a means of developing informal education in communities.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Education, (The Moray House School of Education, Schedule C)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	2.:00	4.:00

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	10:00	12:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion participants will be able to:
Apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to issues involved in working with people in groups in particular contexts
Explain and justify the characteristics of empowering forms of groupwork
Purposefully deploy a range of techniques involved in investigating issues in communities
Demonstrate originality or creativity in designing an informal learning programme, incorporating a range of dialogical teaching and learning methods
Identify, conceptualise and define the influence of discrimination (for example based on class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion and disability)
Critically review and evaluate a range of approaches to challenging discrimination

Assessment Information

Task 1 (summative)
Students will write a paper (2500 words) making an appropriately theoretically informed case for a particular intervention in a community education setting. The paper will critically explore, explain and demonstrate the form of the intervention and the reasoning behind the choice of approach and technique.
Task 2 (formative)
Groups of 3/4 students will make a presentation concerning the context and structure of an educational intervention, including overall approach and indicative details of methodology.