Postgraduate Course: Groupwork in Context (EDUA11156)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
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
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Moray House | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 14:00 - 15:50 | | | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
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.
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Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Mr Vernon Galloway
Tel: (0131 6)51 6640
Email: Vernon.Galloway@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Lesley Spencer
Tel: (0131 6)51 6373
Email: Lesley.Spencer@ed.ac.uk |
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