GFTU BGCM 2017

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Delivery
Teaching will happen on four days spread
over six months, once a month for the first
three months and then a final day where
assessment will take place. This will take
place at Newman University Birmingham,
Genners Lane, Bartley Green, B32 3NT. In
between these times student will have
access to the online learning materials
of the university and will be expected to
communicate with each other via dedicated
learning forums.
Indicative Content
Referring to theorists including Friere,
Gardner, Holt, Illich, Noddings, Russell,
A.S Neill and Suissa as well as those from
the trade union tradition, students will
explore their practice both as opposed
and complementary to formal education
approaches; and will explore the relevance
of ‘alternative’ education arenas such as
Summerhill, free schools and elective home
education in critiquing the role and uses
of education as a tool for either denying or
promoting workers’ rights. The relationship
between educational standpoints and the
formal/informal education continuum will
be explored and different teaching methods
as examples of practice across the spectrum
will be experienced.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
Critically understand the dynamics of
power, empowerment, democratic
learning and discrimination.
Critically understand the principles of
informal education, conversation, critical
dialogue, experiential and situated
learning and reflective practice.
Critically understand learning about
personal development through group
participation and social, political and
popular education.
Critically understand contexts in which
trade union educators operate including
their distinctive cultures.
Specific skills
Autonomous critical and reflective
practice.
Professional who understands and can
articulate their role as educators in
relation to other professionals.
Have the ability to build trusting
relationships and foster democratic and
inclusive education environment.
Have the capacity to facilitate young
people’s and adults’ individual and
collective learning and development.
Assessment
The assessment will be through a medium
negotiated with the group and the tutor
and will be equivalent to 5,000 words. With
reference to their theoretical propositions
and practice as a trade union educator
students will explore their approach on the
formal-informal continuum and evaluate its
effectiveness. Using the theories explored,
students will identify their philosophical
standpoint and articulate their practice
in relation to formal schooling and other
educational practices and consider flexible,
new approaches to creating Trade Union
learning.
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30th July 2017
1pm-9pm