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Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2011/12


AS30234: Developing professional practice 3

Click here for further information Credits: 6
Click here for further information Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Click here for further information Period: Academic Year at Swindon College
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 100%
Click here for further information Supplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Click here for further information Requisites:
Click here for further information Description: Aims:
The aims of this unit are to ensure that students:
* Continue to fully demonstrate their skills, knowledge and understanding of professional youth work in practice in more than one situation;
* Continue to develop techniques and tools for use in their practice and seek out such techniques and tools from a wide variety of sources;
* Evaluate and reflect on their practice and show how this impacts on their work;
* Demonstrate their ability to challenge themselves to extend their professional competence as a youth worker and support others to do the same.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the unit students should be able to:
* Demonstrate a professional level of evaluation and reflection both theoretically and practically, and demonstrate how they could use their own reflection to support others;
* Describe and appraise effective youth work practice in a variety of settings to broaden their professional range;
* Describe and critique how they have developed and discovered a range of new techniques and tools and used them in practice;
* Critically analyse how they have worked with young people to develop effective youth work;
* Explain and examine how they have fully developed their own effective working practices and demonstrated an ability to support others to do the same.

Skills:
At the end of the unit students will have gained the following skills:
* Intellectual (taught) - Techniques for reflection on and evaluation of youth work;
* Professional (facilitated, taught and assessed) - youth work techniques and tools, working habits, effective youth work, professional behaviour;
* Practical (facilitated) - use of modern technology, report writing, recording techniques, planning;
* Key Skills (facilitated - assessed through other units) - the skills in this unit will assist students in the demonstration of competence in the common core modules and work undertaken in this module will be expected to contribute to their portfolios in those units.

Content:
The syllabus for this unit concentrates on extending the skills gained in Developing Professional Practice 1 and 2 and includes:
* Critical evaluation of own and others practice;
* Critically reflect on own practice and support others to develop the same;
* Critical evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of effective youth work in a range of settings;
* Techniques and tools and how to gather from a range of sources;
* Involving young people in all aspects of youth work;
* Youth work democracy in practice;
* Self management and professional working habits;
* Theories of youth work and their application to practice.
Click here for further informationProgramme availability:

AS30234 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Learning Partnerships
  • UDAS-HFB03 : BSc (hons) Youth Work (Work-based Learning) (Full-time at Swindon College) - Year 1
  • UDAS-HPB03 : BSc (hons) Youth Work (Work-based Learning) (Part-time at Swindon College) - Year 2

NB. Programmes and units are subject to change at any time, in accordance with normal University procedures.