Leadership in Community Action

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Leadership in Community Action
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Assignment 1 Beginning Community Action

• About 2,000 words plus assignment cover sheet and
  list of references
• In a short introduction, identify and briefly
  describe one community you are a member of.
  Identify the community boundary (who belongs and
  who is not a member of the community). State the
  main purposes or activities of the community
  (less than 500 words). Give a report on your
  participant observation of community life as you
  observed it on one occasion in this community. In
  your report, give a clear account of what you
  observed, distinguished from any judgment or
  emotion, and from any analysis, interpretation or
  conclusion drawn from what you observed.

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• Link your report to appropriate written material
  including the essential references.  Present this
  assignment as an academic report.

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Essential reading

• Tips
• This assignment calls for reading, observation,
  listening and reflection. Practice skills of
  observing and listening. For this assignment do
  not engage in any action designed to change or
  improve the community.
• Pay attention to the assessment criteria when
  writing your assignment. These criteria determine
  how marks are awarded.
•  Community Action Proposal Assessment Criteria

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• One community you belong to is clearly
  identified, and used as a focus throughout the
  assignment.
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• The assignment demonstrates basic understanding
  of the concepts of gesellschaft and gemeinschaft
  or community and corporation.
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• The assignment describes one short period of
  observation of community life in clear,
  descriptive terms.
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• The is a clear, objective report of what was
  observed. This is not confused with emotion,
  judgment, interpretation or conclusions.
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• The community description is an insider view,
  giving the reader a rich picture of community
  life.
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• The report draws on and is related to appropriate
  literature.
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• Overall, this is an accurate and rich report of
  what you saw and heard on one occasion in your
  chosen community.
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• The assignment is well set out in report style,
  with a title, an introduction (or summary), a
  body and a conclusion. Sub-headings and numbered
  or dot-point lists may be used.
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• The assignment complies with Faculty guidelines
  for assignments and word limit (about 2,000 words
  not including cover page and list of references)
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• All sources if information are properly cited
  in-text, and in a proper list of references?

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Assignment 2

• Write a 2,000 word essay giving a theoretical
  analysis of a community issue.
• Details will be provided in lectures. 
• Due Week 10
• Assessment Criteria To be advised

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Assignment 3 Reflective Learning Micro Skills

• Assignment 3 is in two parts, totalling 40 of
  marks for the Unit. To do well in Assignment 3
  you must do some work in each week throughout the
  semester.
•  Hand in the parts together with an Assignment
  Cover. Follow Faculty Guidelines for presentation
  of assignments (except ad instructed below). Use
  APA 5th (author-date) citation system for
  references.
•  Marks are awarded following the assessment
  criteria for each part.

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3.1 Workshop Participation

• Due Each Week during semester submit by Friday
  of Week 13 Individual No set length 10
•  You must attend and participate in micro skills
  learning activities in a workshop each week, as a
  member of a consistent learning group.
•  You should keep a learning diary in which you
  make an entry each week with brief notes about
• Your micro skills learning each week what you
  did in the Workshop, what you read, what you
  discussed, what you observed, or else you did
  this week to advance your learning about
  community action.   Your reflection on your
  learning what you learned from these activities
  each week what questions you are asking and what
  you would like to learn.  Make sure each entry is
  clearly identified with the date, the micro skill
  activities your reflection on learning each week.
  There should be a two-part entry for every week.
  There is no set length.

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Assessment Criteria

• Your learning diary has dated entries for Weeks 1
  to 13. Your entries have two parts each week
  Learning Activities and Reflection on
  Learning One mark is deducted for each week you
  do not attend, or you do not make a two-part
  entry.
• 3.2 Integrating Community Action
• Due week 15 Individual not more than 2,000
  words 30
•  Write a report in academic report style which
  includes the following content
• Community Action Theory, including some attention
  to psychological, sociological and other
  scientific findings
• Community Action Principles, including ethical
  principles and guidelines for practice
• Community Action Practice, including an account
  of some community action (however small) you have
  engaged in during the semester, mentioning the
  purpose, the plan, the action you took, what you
  observed, and your reflection on what you learned
  from this experience.
• Integration, a conclusion which draws together
  the main threads of your report, and may include
  some comment on how you may use community action
  in your professional life.

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Integrating Community Action Assessment
Criteria

• The report has a well written introduction and
  four relating to community action theory,
  principles, practice and integration.
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• Community action theory is presented in a
  concise, well-argued review of relevant
  literature.
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• Community action principles are presented in a
  clear, well argued exposition.
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• Discussion of community action practice is
  grounded in the students own  learning and
  practical experience
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• The conclusion integrates elements previously
  discussed into a personal statement based on
  evidence and experience.
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• Follow Faculty guidelines for assignments. Use
  report style, with a title, an introduction (or
  summary), a body and a conclusion. Sub-headings
  and numbered or dot-point lists may be used. All
  sources must be properly cited in-text, with a
  proper list of references in Faculty style..
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• Reading for Assignment 3
• This assignment is asking you to draw together
  your learning through the semester, integrating
  material from lectures and workshop sessions. For
  readings, refer first to books, articles and
  other sources handed out during the semester, and
  referred to in lectures and handouts.A keyword
  search for 'community action' on the library
  catalogue will produce more than 100 references,
  including many that will be useful for this
  assignment (only 13 of these are in Health
  Sciences Library, most are in Fisher Library).
  Good books includeIfe, J. Resoriero F
  (2006). Community Development (2rd edn). Sydney
  Longman, or 2nd edition or any community
  development text Sheilds, K. (1991). In the
  Tiger's Mouth An Empowerment Guide for social
  Action. Sydney Millenium (if you can locate a
  copy) McMurray, A. (2003) Community Health and
  Wellness A Socioecological Approach, Sydney
  Elsevier

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Reading for Assignment 3

• This assignment is asking you to draw together
  your learning through the semester, integrating
  material from lectures and workshop sessions. For
  readings, refer first to books, articles and
  other sources handed out during the semester, and
  referred to in lectures and handouts.A keyword
  search for 'community action' on the library
  catalogue will produce more than 100 references,
  including many that will be useful for this
  assignment (only 13 of these are in Health
  Sciences Library, most are in Fisher Library).

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