Title: Award in Child Participation in the Neighbourhood Community
MQF/EQF: 4
ECTS: 3

Mode of Delivery: A combination of face-to-face lectures, workshops, group work, discussions, tasks and presentations.

Programme Duration: 8 Weeks Part-Time

Languages of Instruction: Maltese and English

Accreditation Category: Further education course/programme

Course

 

Course Outline

Session 1 – Foundations of Child Participation
Session 2 – The Neighbourhood’s Impact on Child Wellbeing
Session 3 – Listening to the Child – Tools and Environments for Effective Engagement
Session 4 – Assessing a Neighbourhood and Organising Activities with Children
Session 5 – Listening, Communicating, Reflecting and Changing

Total Contact Hours: 15

Self-Study Hours: 40

Assessment Hours: 20

Total Learning Hours: 75

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes
Competences At the end of the module/ unit, the leader will have acquired the responsibility and autonomy to:

a)         Guide community leaders on how to best incorporate strategies that enable child participation.

b)         Collaborate with colleagues in order to see how a specific physical and social context in the neighbourhood community environment can be adapted so that all children can participate.

c)         Ensure that children have an important role in the neighbourhood community, and that they should be provided with time and space where they can participate.
Knowledge Knowledge obtained at the end of the programme:

The learner will be able to:

a)         Recall basic knowledge and understanding of the rights and roles of children in the neighbourhood community.

b)         Describe the positive impact of child participation on the neighbourhood cohesion in the community.

c)         Identify challenges that children encounter in participating in the neighbourhood community

 

At the end of the module/ unit, the leader will have been exposed to the following:

a)         Describe the required process for child participation to occur in the neighbourhood community.

b)         Identify the various social, religious, sports and civic contexts, where children can participate effectively.

c)         List the benefits child participation can do of the neighbourhood community.

d)         Describe and reflect on collaborative methods where children, adults and elderly can participate in unison as equal members of the neighbourhood community.
Skills

·       Module-specific learner skills

·       Module-specific digital skills & competencies

Skills obtained at the end of the programme:

The learner will be able to:

a)         Advocate for children’s rights of participating in the neighbourhood.

b)         create and prepare ways of how child participation can be effectively enabled in the neighbourhood community.

c)         Assemble a plan of how a specific neighbourhood community can give more opportunities to children and enable them to participate effectively.

 

At the end of the module/ unit the learner will be able to:

a)         Support leaders in the community on how child participation can be incorporated effectively.

b)         Encourage the development of opportunities for children to participate in all aspects of the neighbourhood community

c)         Assess the type of inclusion children and youths are being provided with through the various opportunities in the neighbourhood community

 

Module-specific digital skills and competencies

At the end of the module/ unit the learner will be able to:

a)         Communicate with children and youths in the neighbourhood through the use of digital means such as a poster.

b)         Present approaches that are effective and that can enable child participation in various contexts of the neighbourhood community.

The target group for this award are adults in the neighbourhood community.

Grading System

Pass mark: 45

Grading system as per below:

Mark Range Grade
90%-100% A+
80%-89% A
75%-79% B+
70%-74% B
60%-69% C+
55%-59% C
50%-54% D+
45%-49% D
0%-44% F

Reading List

Core Reading List

 

  1. Hart, Roger A. (2013) Children’s Participation: The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care, Routledge.
  2. Pia Christensen, Margaret O’Brien (2003) Children in the City: Home Neighbourhood and Community,
  3. Satariano, B., Cole, M., Sollars, V., Hili Vassallo, S., & Schembri, X. (2021). Fil-Beraħ : children’s use of public open spaces. The Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society. Floriana
  4. Satariano, B., Cole, M., Sollars, V., Hili Vassallo, S., & Schembri, X. (2021). Fil-Beraħ : children’s use of public open spaces [toolkit]. The Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society. Floriana

 

Supplementary Reading List

  1. Nordbø, Emma Charlott Andersson; Nordh, Helena; Raanaas, Ruth Kjærsti; Aamodt, Geir. (2020). Promoting activity participation and well-being among children and adolescents: a systematic review of neighborhood built-environment determinants. JBI Evidence Synthesis 18, 3, p 370-458.
  2. Janet Loebach, and Jason Gilliland. (2010) “Child-Led Tours to Uncover Children’s Perceptions and Use of Neighborhood Environments.” Children, Youth and Environments, 20, 1, pp. 52–90.
  3. Victoria Derr & Ildikó G. Kovács (2017) How participatory processes impact children and contribute to planning: a case study of neighborhood design from Boulder, Colorado, USA, Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 10,1, pp.29-48.

 

Registration and Fees

For registration or further information, please send an email on: info@mfws.gov.mt

Next intake dates: TBC (To be Confirmed)

Course Fees: TBC (To be Confirmed)

 

About the Awarding Body

The Malta Foundation for the Wellbeing of Society became a licensed higher education training institute in June 2024.

Licence Type: Further and Higher Education Institution

Licence Number: 2024-021

Location
Maison Notre Dame, St Calcedonius Square, Floriana, FRN 1530
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