BA /BA (Honours) Community
Education
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. There
is also the option to exit at year three with an ordinary degree which is
also professionally endorsed. 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
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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. They are introduced to frameworks for locating practice in
the wider policy context and encouraged to consider some of the implications.
They are prepared for the task of developing disciplined and systematic
approaches to practice and introduced to a range of teaching and learning
strategies in community education. They undertake a 6-week block practice
placement.
• Introduction to Community Education
• Introduction to Social Theory
• Education 1Ah (compulsory cross-school introduction to Educ. Studies)
• Welfare, Ideology and the State: Continuity and Change
• Community Education Methods and Approaches 1
• Community Education Practice 1
(a full-time supervised block placement
of six weeks)
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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 requiring them to take an ‘outside’ course
from across the University. They undertake a period of practice alongside
the taught curriculum.
• Community Education 2: Key Domains of Practice
(adult education, community development and work with young people)
• Community Education Methods and Approaches 2
• Professional Practice 2: Professional Practice Requirement of 30 days
• Course drawn from across the University
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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 also offers
some degree of choice and the opportunity for some minor specialism. A
substantial placement experience gives them the opportunity to make the
transition into professional practice.
• Professional Practice 3: Full-time supervised block placement of
12 weeks
• Retheorising Community: Implications for Democratic Citizenship
• Community Education Methods and Approaches 3
Options:
One from Group A
- Adult Education
- Community Development
- Work with Young People
One from Group B
- Arts and Community Action
- Community Education and Environmental Justice
- Health Issues in the Community
- Social Sciences and Education
- Independent Study
(not all of these courses necessarily run, dependent on student interest)
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Year 4 |
Year 4 deepens the academic and theoretical
requirements of the programme and enables students to be more selective
and independent in their studies. A core taught component is combined with
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. The programme involves the following:
• Seminar programme in social and educational theory
• Research Methods: Dissertation
• Professional and Policy Context of Education
• One option from the Options A and B Programmes
Overall, the BA (Honours) Programme is designed to prepare students for the
task of selecting, justifying and deploying theoretical arguments and applying
competently educational methods in a range of settings and contexts.
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Contact |
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.
And for useful information about the coming to study Community Education
at the University see the link below:
 CUE:
Community Education
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