This module is not currently running in 2020 to 2021.
If you are considering a career working with people, this module offers a great opportunity to have direct and personal contact with service users in a supportive context. It involves you in a project based on interviews with people with learning disabilities. There are teaching sessions on research, interview construction, recording and analysis. Practical work involves visiting a person with learning disabilities at their place of work and conducting a recorded interview with due regard to ethical and consent issues. A series of clinics designed to assist you in analysis, interpretation and presentation of the project work will follow.
24 hours lectures, seminars and practical projects
Literature review (30%) and project report (70%).
The module reading list can be found online at http://resourcelists.kent.ac.uk/index.html
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
8.1 Establish a rapport with a person with learning disabilities in a service setting
8.2 Demonstrate knowledge of work related issues for people with learning disabilities
8.3 Understand ethical issues involved in interviewing people with learning disabilities, i.e. informed consent
The intended generic learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
9.1 Demonstrate an ability in using and critiquing qualitative and participatory methodology, using experiential knowledge
9.2 Demonstrate the ability to write an ethics proposal
9.3 Disseminate findings both to an academic institution via a report as well as to a wider community via a presentation
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