Taught By:
Tom Snape
Community Organiser
CitizensUK
affiliated with University of Birmingham, Aston University, Birmingham Newman University, Birmingham City University
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Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I am a Community Organiser working for Citizens UK, the British equivalent of the Industrial Areas Foundation. I work primarily in Birmingham, but also lead nationally on our work with Student organisations. We have four universities in our Birmingham Chapter who are interested in running social action modules either co delivered with us or delivered by us.
I am interested in attending this training so I can develop and lead these modules with confidence in a way that will have a real impact both on the communities across Birmingham and the students who participate. I am particularly interested to learn more about how courses set up with this method can be set up in a way that allows them to endure beyond a single semester / module with different groups of students carrying the torch.
Course Description:
At Birmingham Newman University it would be Working with Children Young People and Families - though we have discussed running it as a free standing modules all courses could take too. At University of Birmingham it would sit with the College of Social Sciences likely in their school of Politics. At Aston University it would be a free standing module and at Birmingham City University that is yet to be determined.
