Research Studentships
Faculty of Education
The following award is offered for uptake in October 2008. The successful candidate will receive a stipend and fee-waiver for the first year of their studies and, subject to successful academic progress reviews and successful interviews with the relevant Heads of Department, will be employed as Graduate Teaching/Research Assistants in their second and third years.
The applicant should hold at least a good Honours degree (2:1 or above) in a relevant discipline and a Masters degree, which included research training.
The award is offered in the following topic:
• Studentship 4: Substantiating community education.
In various guises, community education has been active as a practice in Scotland and elsewhere since the Industrial Revolution. However, while its constituent professions (youth work, adult education and community development) have a long history, and anecdotal evidence of their effectiveness abounds, practitioners have often been too busy to take the time to prove that their interventions have been effective.
This project seeks to study the efficacy of community education by talking to participants who have had significant contact with community education at some stage in the past.
The study will also clarify which effects attributed to community education are able to be substantiated and which are not.
The study will make a substantial and independent contribution to the theory of community education and to the development of professional discourses in the field. It is expected to have international application, and create greater possibilities for international conversations on the place of community education and its constituent professions in social planning.
If this opportunity is of interest to you, please get in touch with Prof Howard Sercombe (howard.sercombe@strath.ac.uk) to discuss the project further.
For application form, please contact the Faculty of Education Research Office, University of Strathclyde, Southbrae Dr, Glasgow G13 1PP: faculty.research@strath.ac.uk by Monday 21st April 2008.
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