Dr Anna Orrnert is Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer. Anna is a sociologist with a particular interest in young people’s transitions to adulthood at the intersection of social class, gender and race.
Anna is the point of contact for this course: A.Orrnert@staff.newman.ac.uk
Dr Dan Whisker is a Senior Lecturer. Dan has several years’ experience leading alternative education groups for children, and is a sociologist, presently researching social and religious diversity in church schools.
Dr Claire Monk is a Senior Lecturer. Claire is a qualified teacher with particular interests how social policies are implemented. She is currently researching safeguarding in children’s sport.
Keith Bishop is a Senior Lecturer. Keith is a qualified youth worker and a foster parent, with particular interest in the voices and experiences of children and young people.
WWU600 Capstone-taught:
This module provides students with the opportunity to explore an area of particular interest through undertaking an evaluation of a particular policy or practice areas related to ‘professional practice’ Related to working with children, young people or families.
WU601 Capstone dissertation:
This module provides students with the opportunity to explore an area of particular interest through undertaking a small scale research project supported by a member of staff from the subject area (or elsewhere) with appropriate specialist knowledge.
PLU601 Work-based Learning Project:
This module offers students the opportunity to build on their level 5 work placement through the more developed application of a negotiated work-based research project. Students will agree with their placement tutor and workplace mentor a brief for a project which addresses a need within the organisation. Learners should complete a minimum of 100 hours in the work place. It is in the spirit of this module that wherever possible, the focus will be on social or community / sustainable development.
WWU628 Safeguarding and child protection in policy and practice:
This module will provide students with the opportunity to explore historical and contemporary concerns that have served to shape policy and practice. Students will explore current legislation and its implications for practice for all those working with the young and vulnerable adults. A clearer understanding will be gained of the different roles and responsibilities of those working in the area of safeguarding. Consideration will be given to the impact that abuse can have on the lives of victims and their families.
and ONE of the following optional modules:
WWU613 Working in partnership with organisations and communities:
Given the changing nature of children’s services in line with a neoliberalist agenda, understanding both how organisations and communities function and the roles that individuals play within each of those is important. Therefore students need to understand both the role of values at an institutional level, and how partnership working is developed and sustained across organisations and communities.
WWU624 Working creatively with children and young people:
This module will explore the role of creativity and play in how children and adults make sense of their lives and worlds, and the role of practitioners in facilitating this process. Working with children, young people and families is a holistic and participatory discipline. Good practice should seek to develop a social pedagogy which treats children’s, young people’s and families’ cultures as inherently valuable, and practitioners should support, in a person-centred way, those they work with to optimise their dignity, choice and wellbeing in their own lives. Creativity is foundational in this process. The module will seek to give students a broad foundation in the theory and practice of creative working current in the field. Drawing on concrete examples of children and young people’s cultures and making use of arts, crafts, life skills, sports, games, religion and the natural world, it will help students to build their confidence in this mode of working. The key threshold concept will be an awareness of the tension between valuing children’s’ activities as developmental or therapeutic and valuing them for their own sake. It will encourage students to hold this tension through a reflective remembering of their own childhood lifeworld.
Mondays 12:00 – 15:00pm
Tuesdays 10:00am – 12:00pm and 13:00 – 15:00pm
Fridays 10:00am – 13:00pm
Full details of your individual academic timetable will be available on mynewman after you have completed online enrolment and set up your student login.
Keep up to date with current affairs (read The Guardian online, or access www.theconversation.com for example). Consider what your reaction is to the issues being raised and why do you think you have that reaction? What has influenced you to relate to or react to such issues in the way that you do?