Community Case Study
In an increasingly divided world where the gap between poor and wealthy nations is growing wider, the call is for ‘engaged citizens’ who can respond to pressing global concerns and address local realities. In light of this, we would like our graduates – as citizens – to be prepared to think and act in new ways: thinking and acting that is aimed at problem-posing and critical reflection, linked to understanding and improving the lives of communities, locally and globally. We therefore need to ask questions of students as future professionals, and as active and engaged citizens: How do our past and present experiences relate to these issues? How are we going to develop our own responses to meeting the challenges presented by inequality and the growing gap between rich and poor? What concepts and ideas will aid our understanding? What strategies can we use for engagement with communities? This course ‘Social Infrastructures’ has been designed with these issues in mind. Through an approach to learning that combines classroom-based learning with community-engaged, experiential learning the course provides a space to ask questions, to reflect and to develop views on these issues