| Unit name | Literature and Community Engagement in Practice 2 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGL20105 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Mrs. Thomas-Hughes |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit is the final practice-based community engagement unit available to students on the ELCE programme.
Aims
The unit aims to support students to critically evaluate their community engagement projects, including enabling students to utilise and analyse their reflexive accounts (and other documentation) of their community engagement projects as evaluation data.
The unit aims to guide student’s exploration of the impact and consequence of their project with a view to the sustainability of projects beyond student involvement or, bringing projects to successful conclusion. For example, students might transfer the project to a student in another year or find ways to ensure that it is able to continue independent of their support.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:
1) the ability to use reflexive diaries as a source of data in the analysis of a community engagement project
2) the ability to critically consider themes from community engagement and service-learning literature to inform the evaluation of a community engagement project.
3) the ability to draw on community engagement and service-learning readings and/or theoretical frameworks to inform the implementation of endings to student community engagement projects
Through the year:
5 x 3-hour seminar
1 x 4.5-hour day school
1 x 4.5 hour conference
1 x 1-hour one-to-one meeting with tutor
Formative: 1 x 500 word account of community-engaged project plan (ILO 1-3)
Summative: 1 x reflective essay (4000 words including 500-1000 word activity log) (ILOs 1-3)
A range of practical materials are provided, including toolkits and practical resource sets from external partners such as the voluntary sector
Additional indicative reading list:
Brent, J., 2009, Searching for Community, Policy Press.
Danielson, S., & Fallon, A. M., 2008. Community-Based Learning and the Work of Literature, Wiley.
Davis, P., 2014, Reading and The Reader, Oxford University Press.
Dolgon, C., Mitchell, T.D., Eatman, T. K., (Eds.) 2017. The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement.
Hartley, J., 2001, Reading Groups, Oxford University Press.
Hooks, Bell. 2003. Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, Routledge
Millican, J., & Bourner, T. (2011). Studentâcommunity engagement and the changing role and context of higher education. Education + Training, 53(2/3), 89–99
Noorani et al, T., 2013, Problems of Participation, ARN Press.
Towheed, S., et al, 2010, The History of Reading, Routledge.
