BA /BA (Honours) Community
Education
Introduction |
The Moray House School of Education
offers a four year undergraduate programme which leads to a BA (Honours)
Community Education degree. This is an endorsed professional qualification
which enables graduates to apply for a wide range of jobs in the public
and voluntary sectors associated with community learning and development.
The programme of study provides a rigorous academic grounding and appropriate
professional preparation through placement and work based learning experiences
in three of the four years. The programme is organised with a specific
focus on community development, work with young people and adult learning
which are combined in the distinctively Scottish model of Community Education.
This is an endorsed professional qualification which
enables graduates to apply for a wide range of jobs in the public and voluntary
sectors
The following programme of study applies to new students
commencing in 2009-10. There are variations of the programme for existing
students who started their studies before 2009-10.
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Year 1 |
Year 1 has an important formative
and foundational function. The taught programme includes a broad introduction
to theory and practice in community education. This is intended to stimulate
students to extend their thinking as a precondition for critical reflection
on practice. Students are introduced to frameworks for locating practice
in the wider policy context and encouraged to consider their implications.
In addition, they are able to select two options from a selected list of
courses which are offered outside the programme. These options will enable
students to deepen their understanding of educational issues and the broader
sociological and policy context of welfare provision.
Students are required to take the following 20 credit courses:
- Introduction to community education
- Working
with individuals and groups
- Community education: theory policy and politics.
- Developing professional identity in community education
Two additional 20-credit courses need to be selected from the
following:
- Education 1a
- Education 1b
- Sociology 1a
- Sociology 1b
- Social Policy and Society
- The Politics of the Welfare State
- European Social Policy
- Introduction to Politics and International Relations
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Year 2 |
Year 2 is concerned primarily to develop a sense of professional identity
which enables students to engage critically and purposefully with the field
of practice. The taught programme is designed to enable students both to
consolidate previous learning and to develop their existing knowledge and
skills. It also gives them the opportunity to extend their own intellectual
horizons by taking an 'outside'
course from across the University. They will also undertake a block period of
practice.
Students are required to undertake the following:
- Concepts and controversies in community education
(40
credits)
- An introduction to research in community settings
(20 credits)
- Community education professional practice 1
(40 credits)
In addition a free choice of one 20 credit 'outside' course needs
to be selected (in Semester 1).
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Year 3 |
Year 3 is designed to enable students
to develop the capacity to make competent, confident and defensible judgements
and to undertake the gradual transition into the field of professional
practice. A focus on policy analysis in particular encourages students
to critically assess the possibilities and constraints of particular contexts
of practice. The third year curriculum offers some degree of choice and
the opportunity for some minor specialism. A substantial placement experience
is also an integral part of students' learning.
- Politics, policy and professional identity in community
education (20 credits)
- Community education methods and approaches: Developing
dialogue (20 credits)
- Managing professional life (20 credits)
- Adult education / Community work / Youth work (20 credit
Electives)
- Community education professional practice 2 (40 credits)
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Year 4 |
Year 4 deepens the academic, theoretical and practice requirements of the
programme and enables students to be more selective and independent in
their studies. A core taught component is combined with a concurrent
placement and a significant degree of negotiation in what is studied.
Students are encouraged to develop their own particular academic interests
which culminate in a substantial dissertation:
- Community education professional practice 3 (40 credits): This
concurrent placement will run for 55 days taking up the equivalent of
2½ days per week from the start of Semester 1 to the end of Semester
2 including the December assessment period.
- Community education honours dissertation (40 credits):
- Community education honours seminar programme (20
credits)
- Elective courses: Students will take one
20-credit course from a range of elective courses in Semester 2
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Further information |
The contact for further information
and admissions advice is:
Stefanie Grierson
The Undergraduate Office (Education)
College of Humanities and Social Science
The University of Edinburgh
2nd Floor, David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9JX
Tel: 0131 651 3154 or Email: Stefanie.Grierson@ed.ac.uk
You can also obtain information from the Undergraduate
Prospectus.
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