Praxis in Community Cultural Development

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2011:

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirments for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.
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This subject will provide students with the theoretical and practical building blocks needed to develop long-term effective community cultural development projects/programs.

The subject provides a comprehensive study of the CCD praxis; including consultation and needs assessment, action-based research, cultural mapping and planning techniques; negotiation and conflict resolution skills; project development/management and evaluation practice, and maintaining an effective documentation approach.

This will enable the development of the student's practical skills, with appropriate strategies and theoretical approaches in leadership and mentorship, as well as perspectives from areas of psychology, behavioural sciences, cybernetics, conviviality, and community devleopment.

The subject will provide an integrated approach to the key issues and skills necessary to enhance the student's ongoing professsional career in the community cultural development sector through skill development.

On completion of this subject the student should be able to:

• demonstrate an understanding of managerial skills and community leadership strategy, including the ability to plan, coordinate, make decisions and problem solve at the community level;
• confidently communicate verbal and written skills;
• exhibit the skills to interpret, analyse, problem solve and apply learning to individual practice;
• demonstrate an understanding of community cultural development practice, in line with cross discipline and cross sectoral partnership;
• present a developed knowledge of the facilitative and collaborative processes within community art practice;
• express community cultural development theory and practice in an accessible form at community level, in both written and oral modes; and,
• demonstrate leadership and mentor skills.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject the student should be able to:

• demonstrate an understanding of managerial skills and community leadership strategy, including the ability to plan, coordinate, make decisions and problem solve at the community level;
• confidently communicate verbal and written skills;
• exhibit the skills to interpret, analyse, problem solve and apply learning to individual practice;
• demonstrate an understanding of community cultural development practice, in line with cross discipline and cross sectoral partnership;
• present a developed knowledge of the facilitative and collaborative processes within community art practice;
• express community cultural development theory and practice in an accessible form at community level, in both written and oral modes;
• demonstrate leadership and mentor skills.