Undergraduate Course: Community Work (EDUA10121)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is particularly concerned with the current policy context as it constructs and constrains the community work task. It aims to locate and analyse those policy discourses which inform the context of practice and to identify what spaces exist between competing discourses and demands in which to develop a critical, competent and coherent community work practice. |
| Course description |
This course will explore the changing context of professional practice, and examine the implications of key policy discourses. It will consider the complex relationship between politics, policy and practice in relation to specific practice contexts. It will explore the changing role of the professional practitioner.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 30 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
174 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Students will submit a 4,000 word paper at the end of the course. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify relevant policy developments
- Critically identify, define, conceptualise and analyse complex problems and issues
- Critically review the contradictory relationship between politics, policy and practice
- Articulate potential areas of 'relative autonomy' in professional practice
- Identify possibilities and problems for practice in the current policy context
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Personal and Intellectual Autonomy
Work both independently and collaboratively in academic context
Make critical connections between theory and practice
Communication
Recognise and value communication as a tool for negotiating and creating new understandings.
Personal Effectiveness
Be reflective and reflexive in relation to intellectual inquiry and professional practice
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| Keywords | community policy practice |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Mae Shaw
Tel: (0131 6)51 6641
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Lesley Spencer
Tel: (0131 6)51 6373
Email: |
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