Community Education (CPD)

The Community Education (CPD) program at the University of Dundee is workplace-based. You will combine online study with workshops and tutor support, providing you with continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities.

Throughout the course you will identify, reflect on, develop, and appraise critical community-based practice, while integrating your learning and practice with theoretical studies and investigative techniques.

You will be encouraged to engage in processes of active learning, involving cyclical processes of action and reflection with participants.

Practitioners with an existing community education or community learning and development qualification can choose to study through this continuing professional development route. The course is also suitable for returning students who already have a PG Diploma in CE/CLD, and want to complete the Masters qualification.

Careers

The course offers a professional qualification for ongoing continuing professional development if you are seeking practitioner and managerial posts in:

• local authority services and projects
• third sector organisations
• community learning and development services
• culture and leisure services
• community health
• youth work
• housing
• community development
• adult literacies and numeracies
• family learning
• community and adult learning
• local economic regeneration
• social enterprise development
• further & higher education

Courses include:

• Critical Pedagogies
• Transforming Practice (Being a Critical Practitioner)
• Community-based research
• Research Methods for Professional Inquiry
• Education MEd Dissertation