Taught By:
Amy Grant
Lecturer in Contemporary British History
School of History and Art History
University of East Anglia
Read profile here.
Motivation to Teach Social Action:
This development program sounds like an amazing opportunity to take some of my current teaching and research in a direction that will undoubtedly benefit the students ability to appropriate some of their unique knowledge and develop this into more direct social action skills within the current day climate. Moreover, I hope it will foster their curiosity and confidence in ways we are not always able to reward through the traditional teaching assessment schemes. Finally, I would be lying if I did not mention that I think this would be a massively personally rewarding and challenging project - my career choices have always been driven by the desire, however naively, to try and reach wider communities - not just academic circles - so I am eager to learn more and from those with the invaluable experience of this
Course Description:
This course is a third year, year long, 60 credit, special subject module co-taught by me and my senior colleague Dr Ben Jones. Within the content we cover many forms of social action, from strikes, to occupations, to and petitions or runway pickets - obviously all within the context of the 1980s. However, we believe there is prime scope to develop this into a social action module, particularly so within the second half of the module, learning the history, and the theory, then ultimately working towards their own forms of social action so to speak.
