Re-Theorising Community: Implications for Democratic Citizenship (U00590)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : EDU-3-RCIDC

The aim of the course is to re-examine the concept of community in the light of both current theoretical debates and the ubiquitous nature of social, economic, political and cultural change. Particular attention is paid to competing accounts of social reality offered by modernist and postmodernist paradigms. The relevance of these theoretical considerations to issues of community, citizenship and democracy is explored and assessed.

Entry Requirements

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

? Costs : Purchase of course reader

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

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

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Understand the relevance of current intellectual debates to the theoretical problem of community
Develop, deploy and evaluate different kinds of theoretical arguments
Locate the local and particular within the global and universal
Think in a constructively critical way about the contemporary politics of citizenship and democracy