Postgraduate Course: Politics, Policy & Professional Identity in Community Education (EDUA11221)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 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 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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student 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.
- Critically analyse how politics and policy create opportunities and constraints for community educators
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Reading List
Bacchi, C. (1999) Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems. London: Sage.
Clarke, J. and Newman, J. (1997) The Managerial State. London: Sage.
Craig, G., Burchardt, T. and Gordon, D. (2008) Social Justice and Public Policy: Seeking Fairness in Diverse Societies. Bristol: Policy Press
Delanty, G. (2000) Citizenship in a Global Age: Society, Culture, Politics. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Fraser, N. (1997) Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the ¿Postsocialist¿ Condition. New York: Routledge.
Hacker, J. and Pierson, P. (2010) Winner-Take-All-Politics. New York: Simon Schuster.
Hancock, L. Mooney, G. and Neal, S. (2012) ¿Crisis social policy and resilience of the concept of community¿, Critical Social Policy, 32(3): 343-364.
Kuisma, M. (2008) ¿Rights or privileges? The challenge of globalization to the values of citizenship¿, Citizenship Studies, 12(6): 613-627.
Lawy, R. & Biesta, G. (2006) ¿Citizenship-as-practice: The educational implications of an inclusive and relational understanding of citizenship¿, British Journal of Educational Studies, 54(1): 34-50.
Mayo, M., Gaventa, J. and Rooke, A. (2009) ¿Learning global citizenship? Exploring
connections between the local and the global¿, Education, Citizenship and Social Justice,
4(2): 161-175.
Mooney, G. and Scott, G. (2012) (eds) Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland. Bristol: Policy Press.
Pierson, P. (1998) ¿Irresistible forces, immovable objects: Post-industrial welfare states confront permanent austerity¿, Journal of European Public Policy, 5(4): 539-560.
Wacquant, L .(2009) Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity Durham: Duke University Press
Walby, S. (2009) Globalisation and Inequalities. London: Sage.
Wilkinson, R. and Picket, K. (2010) (2nd edition) The Spirit level: Why Equality is Better For Everyone. London: Penguin. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Timetable is arranged annually |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Akwugo Emejulu
Tel: (0131 6)51 4167
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Course secretary | Mrs Lesley Spencer
Tel: (0131 6)51 6373
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