Module Indicative Content |
Principles of Community Development:
• From charity models to critical CD
• Linking CD principles with an analysis of power
• Paulo Freire, Agusto Boal, Antonio Gramsci, Margaret Ledwith.
|
Models of Community Development:
• Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)
• Deficiency based Community Development
• Bottom-up Vs Top-Down
|
Application of Community Development models to student’s communities:
• A critical look at student’s own communities in terms of assets and deficits
• Theatre of the Oppressed
|
Identification of root causes of social injustice:
• But Why? Approach,
• Theatre of the Oppressed
|
Reflective Practice:
• Models of RP (Gibbs, Kolb, Rolfe)
• Reflective Writing
|
DKIT reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment
Module Resources
|
Recommended Book Resources |
---|
-
Jackson, A and O’Doherty, C (eds). (2012), Community Development in Ireland: Theory, Policy and Practice, 1. Gill and MacMillan, Dublin, [ISBN: 9780717].
-
Ledwith, Margaret. (2011), Community Development: A Critical Approach, 1. Policy Press, Bristol, [ISBN: 9781847426468].
|
Supplementary Book Resources |
---|
-
Beck, D. Purcell, R. Exeter: Learning Matters. (2010), Popular Education Practice for Youth and Community Development Work., Exeter: Learning Matters.
|
Recommended Article/Paper Resources |
---|
-
Community Development Work & Youth
Studies.
-
Oxford Journals. Community Development Journal, [ISSN: Online ISSN 1468-2656 - Print
ISSN 0010-3802].
|
Other Resources |
---|
|