Week 3: Applying Development Theory to Communications Practice

Introductory Post: Why did the EduSpots team create this course?

Week 1: Gaining critical self-awareness

One of the aims of this course is to together explore ways to close the divisions that exist between people through conversation and education – whether that divide exists between people of different places, cultures, religions, gender, sexuality or educational background—and to build critical and empathetic awareness of how our experience and positioning shapes what we see, and how we communicate.

Week 2: Centring Local Agency: From Beneficiaries to Participants

One problem with the 'soft' active citizenship approaches that Andreotti and others point to, and that globalisation of media can contribute to if local storytelling is not propelled, is that it can contribute to people outside a community thinking that they have superior knowledge to those within.

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