| CODE | EDU5915 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Communities, Otherness and Inclusion | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Education | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit aims at introducing the student reading a Master in Access to Education into the issues of community, difference, otherness and inclusion. These issues will be later taken up by different study-units and explored in detail and applied to different educational contexts. The concept of community is at the heart of the inclusive project. Inclusion is seen as a democratic process. Yet, otherness, othering and difference are part of this project and this tends to create tension in the concept of inclusion The study-unit will be drawing on various disciples to question the idea of community, otherness and inclusion, particular through sociology, psychology, philosophy and law. Although the following two books will be suggested, the use of journal articles will be given. There is no book which captures in full this course. So a number of journal articles will be given to the students. Study-unit Aims: To familiarise student with: - The different discourses and identities that make up a Community and how these discourses can be problematised; - The issues of differences, othering and exclusions of the community; - How inclusion works within communities; - The relation between the individual, community and Otherness. Students will also explore: - The meaning of having a community and how knowledge and identity is produced in the community; - Various policy document at National and International level that discuss the notions of inclusion; - Various political structures through that are part of society. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the complexity in mapping out the knowledge and identity produced by the community; - Describe and analyse the different models and approaches of inclusive communities and their critique, keeping in mind how different countries have used and developed this concept; - Demonstrate the different layers that make up the community; - Demonstrate that the student is familiar with the various basic literature on communities; - Problematise the concept of Otherness and difference; - Evaluate and compare different historical moments which have given a voice to persons with disability; - Bring out the tensions between the community, otherness and the individual. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Engage with a number of readings and be critical of these readings; - Develop arguments and sustaining these arguments by using theory (philosophy, sociology, psychology and legal); - Critique and analyze the general ideas behind the concept of identity formation and how this applies to people with who are constructed as different; - Explore and critically reflect on issues related to otherness; - Sharpen the ability to think critically and 'outside the box' and to analyse current situations; - Be empowered to come forward with new insights and potential solutions to inclusive communities. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Although the following books will be suggested, the use of journal articles will be given. There is no book which captures in full this study-unit. So a number of journal articles will be given to the students. Main Text: - Levinas, E. Entre Nous: Thinking-Of-The-Other, trans. Smith, M. B. and Harshav, B. New York: Colombia University Press, 1998. - Arendt, H. The Origins of Totalitarianism, New York: Harcourt, Inc. 1994. - Bauman, Z. Modernity and the Holocaust, New York: Cornell University Press, 2000. - Freire, P. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy and Civic Courage, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publication, INC. 2001. - Said E.W. Culture and Imperialism, New York: Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. 1994. - Derrida, J. trans. Collins, G. The Politics of Friendship, New York: Verso, 2005. - Mouffe, C. On The Political, New York: Routledge, 2008. Subsidary Text: - Rix, J., Nind, M., Sheehy, K. and Simmons, K. (2010) Equality, Participation and Inclusion 2: Diverse Contexts. Oxford: Routledge. - Azzopardi, A. and Grech, S. (Eds) (2012) Inclusive Communities: A Critical Reader. Sense Publishers. - Derrida, Jacques (2007) Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group London. - Bagga-Gupta, S. (2007) Aspects of Diversity, Inclusion and Democracy within Education and Research. Scandinavian journal of educational research. 51(1), 1-22. - Clark, L. (2012) Coping With Minority Status: Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion. Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology. 18 (3). - Pillay, V. (2010) Diverging on Diversity and Difference: The Mask of Inclusion. Perspectives in education. 28 (3), 13-22. - Derrida, Jacques (2000) Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle invites Jacques Derrida to Respond. Stanford University Press, California. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Francois Mifsud |
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