Exploring Understanding of Critical Educational Theory to Analyse a Case Study from Community and Youth Work Practice.
University of Sunderland
Community and Youth Work Studies (BA Hons)
3rd Year
Education in Community and Youth Work
CYW 307
Tutor : Ilona Buchroth
Student : Valerie Ender
Date : 16th January 2012
Part 1
Please use your understanding of critical educational theory to analyse a case study from community and youth work practice.
“Our aspiration is for a more socially mobile and just society, where young people can be the authors of their own life story.” (Tim Loughton MP, 2011)
In this essay I will explore my understanding of critical educational theory and how it relates to empowering young people to make informed choices about their own lives. I will look at ways Community and Youth work can enable young people to bring about social change and how change can impact on their lives. I will further explore social, cultural, symbolic and economic capital and how this impacts on young people from different social classes. I will look at how critical education theory affects the delivery of a youth work curriculum. I shall base my essay on the following case study.
Case Study
Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School
Year 8 L4L Day (Learning for Life)
Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School in Gateshead is in the bottom two for attainment, with 44% students achieving five GCSE passes at grade A-C, and in the top two for SEN statements out of the eleven m mainstream comprehensive schools in the Borough, with 9% of students subject to SEN statements.
Kingsmeadow School hold an annual Learning for life (L4L) day where professionals from many fields deliver sessions to a whole year group during the course of the day.
One of the Year 8 sessions for L4L is the session I deliver, ‘Why you are politically important in Gateshead’. The broad aim of the school for this session is a potted local politics session and Gateshead Youth Assembly nominations.
During the course of the day all five of the Year 8 classes attend this session. I have
Community and Youth Work Studies (BA Hons)
3rd Year
Education in Community and Youth Work
CYW 307
Tutor : Ilona Buchroth
Student : Valerie Ender
Date : 16th January 2012
Part 1
Please use your understanding of critical educational theory to analyse a case study from community and youth work practice.
“Our aspiration is for a more socially mobile and just society, where young people can be the authors of their own life story.” (Tim Loughton MP, 2011)
In this essay I will explore my understanding of critical educational theory and how it relates to empowering young people to make informed choices about their own lives. I will look at ways Community and Youth work can enable young people to bring about social change and how change can impact on their lives. I will further explore social, cultural, symbolic and economic capital and how this impacts on young people from different social classes. I will look at how critical education theory affects the delivery of a youth work curriculum. I shall base my essay on the following case study.
Case Study
Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School
Year 8 L4L Day (Learning for Life)
Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School in Gateshead is in the bottom two for attainment, with 44% students achieving five GCSE passes at grade A-C, and in the top two for SEN statements out of the eleven m mainstream comprehensive schools in the Borough, with 9% of students subject to SEN statements.
Kingsmeadow School hold an annual Learning for life (L4L) day where professionals from many fields deliver sessions to a whole year group during the course of the day.
One of the Year 8 sessions for L4L is the session I deliver, ‘Why you are politically important in Gateshead’. The broad aim of the school for this session is a potted local politics session and Gateshead Youth Assembly nominations.
During the course of the day all five of the Year 8 classes attend this session. I have
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