Is Community Education a myth? Over the course of this project I intend to answer the question‚ is Community Education a myth? To do this I will use my own experience of Community Education in a range of settings along with some in depth research to critically examine the question. I will start by defining the key terms in the question such a ‘myth’‚ ‘community’ and ‘education’ to ensure my purpose is clear. Following this‚ I will look at the origins of Community Education as a professional practice
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The gay community or LGBT community is a loosely defined grouping of LGBT and LGBT supportive people‚ organizations and subcultures united by common culture and civil rights movements. Furthermore‚ the remarkable growth of the gay community in recent history has revolutionized our culture and consciousness‚ creating radically new possibilities for people to “come out”‚ and live more openly as homosexuals. Before the early years‚ homosexuality was a taboo subject. Since then‚ times have changed
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Reading on: Kenny‚ Susan (2010) ‘The Nature of Community Development’. Developing Communities for the Future: Community Development in Australia. Melbourne: Nelson ITP Tesoriero‚ Frank (2010) Community Development: Community-Based Alternatives in an Age of Globalisation. French Forest‚ NSW: Pearson Education Summary: Community development is an ‘activity or philosophy’ (Kenny 2010) initiated by or facilitated among a group (collectively called community) out of dissatisfaction with existing social
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The idea of a contact zone and a community is distinct from one another‚ yet they can both be used to define the characteristics of the same group. Mary Louise Pratt believes that communities are often seen as the more dominant viewpoint to the general public but she also argues that we need to develop ways to understand the differences of culture and grasp the idea of transculturation through the contact zone. A single group should always be viewed from both community and contact zone points of view
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in the community is a wonderful thing when it all comes together and benefits the organization and the community. Matthew Wagner‚ Assistant Director or the Cincinnati Reds Community Fund said‚ “Our biggest challenge is not players who want to be involved but finding the time for them to be involved” (M. Wagner‚ personal communication‚ March 23‚ 2016). Baseball games are being played everyday and even though players are trying to fit it in their schedules to make an impact in their community that doesn’t
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I belong to a relatively tightknit community within my subdivision. Here‚ everybody knows everybody! Whenever a neighbor is in need‚ we drop what we’re doing to go and help them. Simple as it may be‚ that’s just the way things work around here. I can define my place within this community in a couple words: friend and leader. Recently‚ a neighbor of mine was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. The whole subdivision was shocked. In her time of need‚ I knew the right thing to do would be to
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Intro A community can be viewed as a people that share common languages. Attributes and many other cultural similarities. Strong communities usually signify a unity or bond. This bond forms a sense of sense of self and "brotherhood". However‚ this does not appear to exist in the Black community. Slavery has nearly destroyed the existence of any unity. When the Africans were taken from African‚ different tribes were mixed together on the ships and stripped of their identities. The differences between
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school‚ or music group. Researchers have deemed these groups as discourse communities. Ann Johns explains discourse communities as‚ “a basis for sharing and holding in common: shared expectations‚ shared participation‚ commonly held ways of expressing” (320). Discourse communities hold certain standards and actions that lead to the functioning of the group. The Bartlett City Court Clerk’s Office is a stand out discourse community that has certain vocabulary‚ genres‚ and tasks that allow them to work
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Did you know that there are four types of discourse communities? There’s the professional community‚ which is your job‚ career or working environment. Your social communities are your friends and family. The civic community is the clubs‚ hobbies and extracurricular activities you attend to or participate in. The last one is your cultural group‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ environment cultures all play into this one. My discourse community happens to be a mix of all four of these. I am a competitive dancer
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John. W. Blessingame‚ The Slave Community: The Plantation Life in The Antebellum South (Oxford University Press‚ Inc: 1972‚ 1979). John Wesley Blassingame was a scholar‚ historian‚ educator‚ writer‚ and leading pioneer in the study of American slavery. He received a bachelor’s degree at Fort Balley State College in 1969‚ a master’s degree at Howard University in 1961‚ and a doctorate at Yale University in 1971. He then became a history professor at his alma mater in 1974 at Yale University.
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