Schools, Communities and Local Knowledge

EDUC26051 Schools, Communities and Local Knowledge 20 Semester 1 Undergraduate Undefined Kirstin Kerr Unit coordinator Education 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Middle part of Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 This unit explores how schools can better understand, value and support the local communities they serve. Students will consider how professionals’ knowledge of the communities where they work, and the knowledge children, families and wider residents have about where they live, can be brought together to create new, powerful, local education strategies. Students will be supported to consider the challenges and opportunities schools face in accessing and acting on local knowledge. Real world examples will be used to bring these issues to life. There will be a specific focus on what schools – working with and for their local communities – can do to mitigate the wider impacts of poverty on children’s education and wider outcomes. The unit has a strong social responsibility dimension and will appeal to students interested in working in and around schools – in pastoral and outreach roles, in public services, and in the charity sector. This unit explores how schools can better understand, value and support the local communities they serve. Students will consider how professionals’ knowledge of the communities where they work, and the knowledge children, families and wider residents have about where they live, can be brought together to create new, powerful, local education strategies. Students will be supported to consider the challenges and opportunities schools face in accessing and acting on local knowledge. Real world examples will be used to bring these issues to life. There will be a specific focus on what schools – working with and for their local communities – can do to mitigate the wider impacts of poverty on children’s education and wider outcomes. The unit has a strong social responsibility dimension and will appeal to students interested in working in and around schools – in pastoral and outreach roles, in public services, and in the charity sector. The unit aims to enable students to critically:<ul><li>explore the complexity of school-community relationships</li><li>explore the range and types of knowledge held within schools’ local communities – by pupils and parents, wider residents, and education and related professionals</li><li>explore how schools can act on this local knowledge to support positive outcomes for children, families, and wider residents. This includes school-led actions and schools supporting community-led actions.  </li><li>explore the strengths and limitations of the approaches schools might develop, and how these are likely to differ from decontextualized national interventions. </li><li>explore the challenges school leaders face in acting on local knowledge. </li></ul> <ul><li>Identify and describe different types of local knowledge schools might access.  </li><li>Identify and describe some potential benefits on schools acting on local knowledge.  </li><li>Identify and describe some of the challenges schools may encounter in efforts to act on local knowledge  </li></ul> <ul><li>Critically engage with core concepts central to the unit, e.g. community schools, contextual knowledge, assets-based community development  </li><li>Critically evaluate the existing evidence bases relating to the unit’s core ideas  </li></ul> <ul><li>Compile and present online contextual information about geographically-located residential communities and schools</li><li>Identify and present actions schools might take in response to contextual challenges</li></ul> <ul><li>Compile and present information clearly and concisely for professional audiences </li></ul> <ul><li>conceptualising communities and the relationship between schools and communities</li><li>the rationale, principles and working process underpinning the international Community Schools movement  </li><li>the different kinds of contextual knowledge held by professionals and community members</li><li>assets-based community development and its application to education</li><li>community organising and its application to education</li><li>critique of national place-based education interventions  </li><li>school- and place-based interventions developed in response to local knowledge, including funds of knowledge approaches to curriculum development, parent interventions to support school outcomes, children’s zone approaches</li><li>the challenges schools face in responding to local knowledge  </li></ul> 0 Other 100% PPT Presentation — 40% Individual Essay — 60% Written feedback will be provided via Turnitin. BA Educ, Leadership & Culture BA Educ, Leadership & Culture Second Year Mandatory Lectures 1 Practical classes & workshops 2 Seminars 27 0 170