Develop and innovateLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can identify and assess the problems of the professional field together with different working groups and target groups.
You know how to design new products and services in an entrepreneurial and customer-oriented way.
You can use project work as a method of development work.
You can plan, implement, assess and report a goal-oriented development process or project.
You can work as a member of a project team in a goal-oriented way.

Content

What kind of development needs arise in community pedagogues' work fields?
What is development work?
What are development methods and how can these methods be applied?
How is project work used in development work?
What work life skills are needed in project work?

Accomplishment methods

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary systematically.
b. look for information in the key information sources in the field.
c. identify interrelated tasks.
d. work together with clients, users and target groups.
e. use the key development methods of the professional field.
f. work as project team members in a goal-oriented way.