Community Education

Community Education will be used in the Post Grad Group. Community Education highlights the importance of people recognising that they are part of a society and connected to others within it.

Community Education can lead to sustainability as community members have ownership over change processes and engage in knowledge and capacity-building dialogue and activities. Community education is holistic, recognising the interconnectedness of varying aspects of participants’ lives (Freire, 1996). In holistic practice, we must recognise barriers in people’s lives and engage in dialogue to determine how to gain the best results. Needs can be interconnected. In the case of the UQ Post Grad Group, barriers include competing demands in life and the feelings of social isolation from the rest of the university.