NOCN Resource Pack 8
Reflective community development work practice

Unit: Reflective Community Development Work Practice
Level One: Mandatory. NOCN Unit Code EE31QQ006
Level Two: Mandatory. NOCN Unit Code EE32QQ011
Level Three: Mandatory. NOCN Unit Code EE33QQ031

This pack is designed to support the Reflective Community Development Practice National Open College Network (NOCN) unit at levels 1, 2 and 3; it is a mandatory unit at all levels.

This resource pack is different from the others in this series. Reflective practice is central to the national community development occupational standards and community development workers need to be reflecting on their practice as part of the way they operate. Reflective practice requires people to reflect on their experiences and to learn from them. Reflecting is a skill that can be learnt and developed - not everyone is an intuitive reflector.

In all the other NOCN units there are opportunities for people to learn from each other. The exercises, case studies, scenarios and the reflective journals all require participants to make the links between their learning and their practice.

A different model based on short workshops and drew upon the work already undertaken by participants in the other units was felt to be more useful. This pack contains material for 4 two-hour workshop sessions which can be run singly or together:

- Workshop 1 explores what this unit requires and how to plan to gather the evidence to show peoples' achievement of the learning outcomes.
- Workshop 2 explores the concept of reflective practice within community development work and examines key role F.
- Workshop 3 explores how people can use the NOS to determine their learning needs and plan to meet them.
- Workshop 4 explores different ways to record practice.