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Postgraduate Course: Groupwork in Context (EDUA11156)

Course Outline
SchoolMoray House School of Education CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  40
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Task 1 (summative)
Students will write a paper (4,000 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.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
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
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Vernon Galloway
Tel: (0131 6)51 6640
Email: Vernon.Galloway@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lesley Spencer
Tel: (0131 6)51 6373
Email: Lesley.Spencer@ed.ac.uk
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