This pathway module offers you an opportunity to look at the application of learning in an open environment with a focus on community development.
You will explore the role of community learning and the contribution this can make to community empowerment and developing capacity in communities.
The pathway is being delivered at a time when demand for new approaches to community development, community cohesion and ‘peace-building’ is high, driven by pressures on communities brought through economic change and declining public sector support.
You will examine partnership approaches to community learning in a variety of settings, including; communities affected by severe deprivation, gang-culture and the threat of radicalisation.
The pathway will allow you to make a close study of a community or neighbourhood, examining the methods of intervention already in place and linking these to contemporary theories of learning in a context of community engagement and empowerment.