Community Education Professional Practice 3 (U00567)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : EDU-3-CEPP

The final block placement will give students the opportunity to develop the capacity to make competent, confident and defensible judgements and to undertake the gradual transition into the field of practice. It aims to consolidate and integrate learning from practice experience and the taught elements of the programme. Particular attention will be given to widening and deepening existing knowledge, critical understanding and practical skills. It offers the opportunity for students to engage in negotiated and sustained educational practice with groups and individuals. There is an expectation that students will systematically utilise theoretical frameworks in analysing and engaging with the policy context of practice. It should provide a challenging and supportive environment in which students can test their strengths and weaknesses as critically reflexive practitioners.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Community Education 2; Community Education Methods and Approaches 2: Developing Dialogue; Community Education Professional Practice 2

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

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

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completing this course students will be able to:
- demonstrate the capacity to assume the role of a critical and competent pre-professional colleague within a given agency setting.
- Identify and articulate relevant connections between the taught curriculum and professional practice
- Demonstrate an ability to operate within a framework of professional accountability
- Identify areas of relative autonomy in the agency setting
- Generalise from the particular experience of the placement
- Assess their own strengths and weaknesses as professional practitioners.
- Identify significant learning gaps.
- Locate the agency within the broader framework of policy
- Deploy appropriate theoretical frameworks to analyse and address the problems and possibilities of educational practice within the wider policy context.

Assessment Information

Fieldwork practice will be assessed in the placement by the placement supervisor against the requirements by professional validation agency.Students will write a 2500 word paper in which they critically reflect on their placement experience and its relationship to the course curriculum.Students will present a synthesis of their learning from practice and taught elements across the programme as a whole to a panel comprising fieldwork and University staff. This oral examination/presentation will be assessed against a number of key criteria.