Module Details
| Module Code: |
COMD H2019 |
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Full Title:
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Community Development and Active Citizenship
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| Valid From:: |
Semester 1 - 2019/20 ( June 2019 ) |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
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| Module Owner:: |
Johdi Quinn
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| Module Description: |
no description provided
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| Module Learning Outcome |
| On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to: |
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Module Learning Outcome Description |
| MLO1 |
Appraise models and principles of Community Development. |
| MLO2 |
Discuss the roots and applications of Active Citizenship. |
| MLO3 |
Explain the relationship between class, power and inequality within a framework of Community Development and Active Citizenship. |
| MLO4 |
Evaluate community as a process of social inclusion and, by extension, social exclusion. |
| MLO5 |
Consider the implications of diversity on Community Development practices. |
| Pre-requisite learning |
Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named DkIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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| No recommendations listed |
| Module Indicative Content |
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The context of Community Development.
The relationship between Community Development, Community Activism, Active Citizenship and Neoliberalism.
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Principles of Community Development.
• From charity to critical Community Development
• Paulo Freire, Agusto Boal, Antonio Gramsci, Margaret Ledwith.
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Models of Community Development.
• Asset Based Community Development (ABCD),
• Deficiency Based Community Development,
• Bottom-up Vs Top-Down
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Active Citizenship.
• Classical roots of AC
• Associational life
• Active and Reflective Civic Engagement
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Symbolic Boundaries and Community.
• Belonging and Identity in Community
• Imagining of an ‘us’ and a ‘them’ , understanding ‘otherness’ and ‘othering’
• Who ‘fits in’ in a community, who doesn’t ‘fit in’?
• National and ethnic groups as social constructs - ‘Imagined communities’
• Symbolic and invisible boundaries and community
• Diversity
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The Dark Side of Community.
• What it means to be 'part of' and not 'part of' - social inclusion and social exclusion
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Inequality and social injustice.
• Social class as a definition
• social class as a way of defining who has power and who does not
• social class and gender as social categories
• Hegemony and consent
• Power and decision-making
• Theatre of the Oppressed as a teaching and learning tool
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Linking Theory with Practice.
• Models of Reflective Practice (Gibbs, Kolb, Rolfe)
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Module Assessment
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
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| Course Work | 100.00% |
| Module Special Regulation |
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AssessmentsFull-time
Part-time
| Reassessment Requirement |
A repeat examination
Reassessment of this module will consist of a repeat examination. It is possible that there will also be a requirement to be reassessed in a coursework element.
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DKIT reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment
Module Workload
| Workload: Full-time |
| Workload Type |
Contact Type |
Workload Description |
Frequency |
Average Weekly Learner Workload |
Hours |
| Lecture |
Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
2.00 |
2 |
| Tutorial |
Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
1.00 |
1 |
| Directed Reading |
Non Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
2.00 |
2 |
| Independent Study |
Non Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
4.00 |
4 |
| Total Weekly Learner Workload |
9.00 |
| Total Weekly Contact Hours |
3.00 |
| Workload: Part-time |
| Workload Type |
Contact Type |
Workload Description |
Frequency |
Average Weekly Learner Workload |
Hours |
| Lecture |
Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
2.00 |
2 |
| Directed Reading |
Non Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
4.00 |
4 |
| Independent Study |
Non Contact |
No Description |
Every Week |
3.00 |
3 |
| Total Weekly Learner Workload |
9.00 |
| Total Weekly Contact Hours |
2.00 |
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Module Resources
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| Recommended Book Resources |
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Jackson, A and O'Doherty C (eds). (2012), Community Development in Ireland: Theory, Policy and Practice, 1st. Gill and MacMillan, Dublin, p.256, [ISBN: 9780717149742].
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Ledwith, Margaret. (2011), Community Development: A Critical Approach, 1st. Policy Press, Bristol, p.224, [ISBN: 9781847426468].
| | Supplementary Book Resources |
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Honohan, Iseult. (2002), Civic Republicanism, 1st. Routledge, London, p.224, [ISBN: 978-0415212113].
| | This module does not have any article/paper resources |
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| Other Resources |
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Website, Oxford University Press. Community Development Journal, Oxford,
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Website,
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