Undergraduate Course: Politics, Policy & Professional Identity in Community Education (EDUA10117)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
The aim of the course is to explore the interplay between the professional, the policy and the political contexts in which community educators operate. The course will consider the ways contemporary theoretical debates about community, equalities, social order, social justice, citizenship and democracy both open up and constrain the possibilities for professional action. Particular attention is given to the interrogation of specific policy and policy discourses at different levels from the local to the trans-national. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Moray House | Lecture | 1 hour lecture plus 1 hour tutorial | 1-11 | | 14:00 - 15:50 | | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
Timetable is arranged annually |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completing this course, students will be able to:
- Develop, deploy and evaluate different kinds of theoretical arguments and understand their potential to frame the terms of the debates that are possible
Understand the relevance of current intellectual debates to theoretical accounts of community, citizenship and democracy
- Locate the local and particular within the global and universal
- Think in a constructively critical way about the contemporary politics of citizenship and democracy |
Assessment Information
For the academic year 2010-2011 there will be a 3000 word paper.
From 2011-2012, the course will be assessed synoptically with the chosen elective course (one from: Adult education; Community work; Youth work)
The synoptic assessment will take the form of a 4000-4500 word paper. |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Prof Lyn Tett
Tel: (0131 6)51 6113
Email: Lyn.Tett@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Lesley Spencer
Tel: (0131 6)51 6373
Email: Lesley.Spencer@ed.ac.uk |
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