Courses / Module

Community education both domestic and internationally is built on a strong tradition of nurturing and theorizing collective approaches to education undertaken as part of egalitarian agendas. It sets out to address structural inequality by problemising equality and inequality undertaken through attention to locally based issues and concerns. This module sets out to introduce participation to concepts of community education linking it in part to concepts of community development - a practice which has critical education at its core.
Objectives:
1. Introduce a history of community education nationally and internationally locating this within concepts of social change and social movements and as connected to critical approaches to community development.
2. Offer an outline of models of community education; vocational, personal and socially transformative built on the needs of communities within which it is located.
3. Detail policy directives on community education both Nationally and EU led.
4. Provide insight to the core educational philosophies underpinning community education.