Liberating Adult Education and Competency Based Curriculum - The Proposed Paradigm and Praxis at the Alice Springs Clubhouse (Mental Health Rehabilitation Community Project) - Consumer Driven Dream or Bureaucratic Nightmare?Michael Robertson, Volunteer Curriculum Writer, Alice Springs Clubhouse AbstractThis paper examines the process of liberating adult education using a consultative curriculum model developed by Nadler (1984) the author has developed a curriculum for ÔconsumersÕ of the newly opened clubhouse in Alice Springs, a facility that was founded in New York some 50 years ago and has been established as a model of getting people back into the workforce after suffering from mental trauma. Under the influence of Friere (1970), Knowles (1970) and others, as well as the espoused need for the project to be consumer driven the Competency Based Curriculum is proposing to be mainly self, peer and consumer assessed, something of a departure for CBT format which sees the teacher as something of an all knowing ÔGodÕ. Under a social reconstructionalist model this consumer driven curriculum is likely to become more popular but in the past there has been difficulties in getting curriculum such as the above past various I.T.A.B.Õs and while high in ideals it is anticipated that something of a liberating education model may have difficulty in actually getting accredited. Much of this paper discusses the history of The Clubhouse movement, the mental health scene in Alice Springs and involved in consumer driven curriculum. |
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