Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2019-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2019-ONGOING

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Articulate what might be meant by “community development method”, using their own experience of practice and various texts.

2.

Test out a number of community development skills including micro-method skills of deep listening and language learning, making connections, participating in dialogue, listening to and working with 1st and 2nd stories; mezzo-method skills of moving a private concern to public action, the use of triads, the place of creativity in community; building organisations and nurturing partnerships; and coalition making and social action.

3.

Describe and test out the methodologies being used in in a specific community or around a particular issue or challenge of interest or concern.

4.

 Apply an understanding of community development to a specific local context.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Working with people often demands sophisticated skills, methodologies and ‘artfulness’. This unit introduces students to a range of the tools adopted by those involved in community development. It is the key ‘how to’ unit in the community development postgraduate programme at Murdoch University. The unit introduces students to ideas and practices that foster the clear thinking, relational maturity and ethical strength required when working with others locally or internationally, in community-based settings, in government, business and many other contexts.
The unit draws on a variety of practice methodologies including micro-method skills of deep listening and language learning, making connections, participating in dialogue, listening to and working with 1st and 2nd stories; mezzo-method skills of moving a private concern to public action, the use of triads, the place of creativity in community; building organisations and nurturing partnerships; and coalition making and social action. The unit will provide students with the opportunity to explore, understand and test out these methodologies.
The learning experiences of this unit also provide an opportunity to extend their acquisition of important practices for university life including writing, thinking, reading, viewing, research, relationship building, communication and collaborative work.