ED5906 - Teachers, Schools and Rural Community Development

Credit points:	06
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available to Postgraduate Certificate of Education and Master of Education (Rural Studies) students in Canada.

This subject considers issues relating to the role of teachers and schools in community education and development. Topics include: concepts and models of community education and its connections with community development; skills of community education and development, including leadership, personal and community visioning, educating for community action and the place of participant action research in community education and change. Also considered are initiatives that have occurred in various parts of the world that demonstrate how schools can contribute to the viability of their host communities.

Learning Outcomes

• acquire a broad theoretical knowledge of community education and the role of the school in community development;
• acquire a critical appreciation and awareness of the interplay between politics, policy and the practice of rural community development;
• acquire an appreciation of the contexts (school and community) in which those initiatives take place;
• acquire the practical skills needed to play a role in community education, leadership and development initiatives.

Availabilities
, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Contact hours:	80 hours

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