Short Course at PA

03 Mar 08

Public Achievement in association with Queens University are offering a short course for informal educators working to build more participative models of work.This course is aimed at educators working in a variety of fields including community development, youth work and teaching. Participants will explore how to actively engage people in the the civic life of their communities through a ‘Democratic Civic Practice’ model. Participants will explore the theoretical underpinnings of this work and will develop and implement a practical action project which they will then implement and write up as the assessment element of the course.
The course will begin with a residential at The Rural College and Derrynoid Centre, Draperstown from 9th-11th May, 2008, and there will be two further morning sessions on Friday 30 May and 20 June in Belfast at Queens University.
This course is subsidised thanks to the support of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland through the Peace II programme. A small number of additional bursaries are available.

The course will be delivered by Paul Smyth, Director of Public Achievement, and Tareq al Bakri who is former Co-Director of the American Friends Service Committee youth programmes in the Middle East. Tareq is currently a PhD student at Queens.
The course is also part of a wider ‘Certificate in Community Learning and Development’ offered through the Institute of Lifelong Learning. It is worth 20 CATS Points. The subsidised course fee is £250. Assessment will be through a 1,000 word practice based assignment to be submitted at the end of the course. To Download more information and a course application form, please go to 'What we do' -'Publications'- 'QUB Civic Participation in Communities'. for more information, please contact Paul Smyth via email paul@publicachievement.com or telephone 028 90 666948

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