2nd lec community development in edu
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Community development in education advocates for creating innovative programs and collaboration between community members to advance community learning and sustainability. It aims to equip communities with the skills needed to undertake activities of their choosing. Key aspects of community development in education include lifelong learning, community involvement, efficient use of resources, self-determination, self-help, leadership development, institutional responsiveness, integrated delivery of services, and decentralization. Community educators work with people of all ages across a variety of settings and programs to address community needs through learning and prepare individuals for active community life.
2nd lec community development in edu
- 1. Lifelong Learning Community Involvement Efficient Use of Resources Self-Determination Self-Help Community Development in Education Leadership Development Institutional Responsiveness Integrated Delivery of Services Decentralization
- 2. Community Development in Education advocates and supports the creation of innovative programs and collaboration between all members of communities for the purposes of advancing community learning and sustainability.
- 3. The aim of 'Community Education' is to equip communities with the skills they need to undertake the activities they wish to undertake; it is essentially about educating communities or groups, not just individuals. Defining Community development in Education
- 4. Adult and Community Education (ACE) is a response to the lifelong learning needs of the community. Key features are: it is learner-centered. it is for everyone. it covers a wide variety of learning. it responds to the community. Defining Community Education
- 5. A process whereby learning is used for both individual and community betterment. It is characterized by: Involvement of people of all ages. The use of community learning, resources and research to bring about community change. The recognition that people can learn through, with and for each other to create a better world. Defining Community development in Education
- 6. The field of Community Education is about providing the knowledge and skills for people to not only be self-sufficient and independent, but to create and utilize the interdependencies that must also exist in civil society. It is about creating a participatory learning culture that incorporates principles and practices of respect, mutual aid, inclusiveness, lifelong learning, skill building, self appreciation, entrepreneurship, and leadership development – the puzzle pieces that make up community life and learning.
- 7. Who are Community Educators?
- 8. We are the learning strands of communities. We are the youth workers and the youth leaders. We are the preschool and out-of-school time instructors and supporters who work with children and their care-givers. We are the adult education counselors, teachers and volunteers in continuing education programs, in workforce development programs, in workplaces, in colleges, in prisons, in museums, in immigrant serving agencies in family resource centers, in senior centers, and in other community-based agencies.
- 9. We are so many people addressing the multiple needs of individuals, families, organizations, and communities - providing an array of academic, recreation, health, social services, using the common thread of learning, to prepare people of all ages for active and healthy community life.
- 10. Recommendations Build the linkages between the myriad incarnations of Community Education and ensure that the mission is about sustaining communities through education and learning.
- 11. Build partnerships with all institutions, (education, government, businesses, service organizations, neighborhoods, families, philanthropy and civic associations), locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, and guide where we are welcome the process of creating collaboration.
- 12. Constantly review, evaluate and adapt to the political, economic, societal, technological, environmental, and demographic shifts occurring in our communities, nationally and internationally.
- 13. Community Education is a vibrant and ever changing field, unique and interdependent, adapting to the needs of communities by responding with programs and/or processes specific to the local area.