scholarly journals Learning from "Listening to Communities"

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Valliant ◽  
Megan Betz
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Community Voice ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
The City

Community voice has persistently, and to degrees, been present in pockets of curricular and co-curricular community engagement at Indiana University – Bloomington (IUB). The Bloomington Volunteer Network (BVN), a program of the City of Bloomington, was instrumental in creating service-learning infrastructureon campus over 20 years ago and continues participation in regular meetings of campus-community stakeholders.

scholarly journals The Future of Community Service-Learning in Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
Geri Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Future ◽  
Support Students

Anchored by the question of what is needed for community service-learning (CSL) to continue to grow in Canada, this paper proposes three principles for effective campus-community engagement (CCE): 1) communities need to feel ownership of community-campus partnerships; 2) post-secondary institutions need to make the route to engagement clearer and easier to navigate for their communities; and 3) post-secondary institutions need to ensure infrastructure to support students, staff, faculty, and community involved in CCE. Aspiring toward better futures for CSL in this country, the author offers possible solutions for and approaches to CCE based on her observations, reflections, knowledge, and experience as former Director of the Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning (CACSL).

scholarly journals Exploring Heritage Archaeology at Indiana University

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Watts Malouchos ◽  
Carey Champion
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
University President ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Research Mission ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
House Museum ◽  
Historic House ◽  
The University ◽  
Remote Sensing Methods ◽  
The City

This article is an overview of a collaborative Indiana University (IU) Bicentennial Project designed to explore and raise awareness of the cultural heritage on IU’s historic Bloomington campus, protect the university’s archaeological resources, contribute to its teaching and research mission, and enhance documentation and interpretation of its historic house museum. The primary project partners were IU’s Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology and the Wylie House Museum, a unit of IU Libraries. Using state-of-the art remote sensing methods and traditional archaeological excavations, the project sought to locate the buried subterranean greenhouses at the home of first university president, Andrew Wylie. Historical research focused on the position of the Wylies and IU in the development of the city of Bloomington, particularly on the transition from subsistence farming in the mid-19th century to the development of leisurely gardening and floriculture later in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Through campus archaeological field school opportunities, internships, talks, exhibits, presentations on campus, and outreach opportunities throughout the university and Bloomington communities, the project contributed to the IU curriculum and promoted a better understanding of IU’s cultural heritage. Importantly, this campus archaeology project provided a unique opportunity to pursue place-based education and experiential learning that connected students, university, and community stakeholders to their local heritage.

scholarly journals Collaborative Service-Learning Partnerships between Government, Community and University for Implementing Social Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-315
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Scheepers
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Learning Partnerships ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Service Learning Projects ◽  
The Government ◽  
Learning Projects

AbstractCommunity Engagement, the third pillar of Higher Education, requires South African universities to engage in projects that benefit society. Service-Learning, a form of community engagement, is a powerful pedagogical tool that lends itself to the enrichment of diversity and conceptualisation of innovative curriculum activities towards the positive transformation of students, academic staff and the broader society. Meaningful government and community partnerships are assets for universities who strive for relevant engagement with communities. In Service-Learning triad partnerships, the government, university and community stakeholders collaboratively conceptualise Service-Learning projects. These partnerships are composed of representatives from diverse institutional cultures and individual backgrounds. Through Participatory Action Research (PAR), the systems approach is applied to understand and critically examine the interconnectedness between the aims and objectives of government, community and the university. Service-Learning partnerships can be viewed as a powerful tool for actualizing community development strategies; moving these from policy to implementation in communities. This paper encourages universities to build meaningful partnerships with external stakeholders through service-learning projects. By engaging actively with their partners, universities could strengthen their Service-Learning initiatives and partnerships.

Teaching Interreligious Encounter

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Guest Speakers

This chapter offers instructors in higher education some basic tools and elements of course design for interreligious encounter in the undergraduate classroom. Aiming at practice over theory, it provides practical suggestions for fostering interreligious understanding from the first day of class through the end of the semester. These suggestions include the use of guest speakers, interdisciplinary case studies, in-class reflections, and interreligious community engagement (i.e., “service learning”), among others. Further, it provides a concise bibliography of basic introductory texts for both students and instructors in the areas of comparative theology, theologies of religions and religious pluralisms, and interreligious studies and dialogue.

scholarly journals What makes or breaks higher education community engagement in the South African rural school context: A multiple-partner perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Gabriel Machimana ◽  
Maximus Monaheng Sefotho ◽  
Liesel Ebersöhn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Context ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Multiple Partner ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Wide Range

The purpose of this study is to inform global citizenship practice as a higher education agenda by comparing the retrospective experiences of a range of community engagement partners and including often silent voices of non-researcher partners. Higher education–community engagement aims to contribute to social justice as it constructs and transfers new knowledge from the perspectives of a wide range of community engagement partners. This qualitative secondary analysis study was framed theoretically by the transformative–emancipatory paradigm. Existing case data, generated on retrospective experiences of community engagement partners in a long-term community engagement partnership, were conveniently sampled to analyse and compare a range of community engagement experiences ( parents of student clients ( n = 12: females 10, males 2), teachers from the partner rural school ( n = 18: females 12, males 6), student-educational psychology clients ( n = 31: females 14, males 17), Academic Service-Learning ( ASL) students ( n = 20: females 17, males 3) and researchers ( n = 12: females 11, males 1). Following thematic in-case and cross-case analysis, it emerged that all higher education–community engagement partners experienced that socio-economic challenges (defined as rural school adversities, include financial, geographic and social challenges) are addressed when an higher education–community engagement partnership exists, but that particular operational challenges (communication barriers, time constraints, workload and unclear scope, inconsistent feedback, as well as conflicting expectations) hamper higher education–community engagement partnership. A significant insight from this study is that a range of community engagement partners experience similar challenges when a university and rural school partner. All community engagement partners experienced that higher education–community engagement is challenged by the structural disparity between the rural context and operational miscommunication.

Establishing Partnerships for Effective Academic Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna L. Morrissey ◽  
Joseph A. Beckett ◽  
Ross Sherman ◽  
Lisa J. Leininger
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Specific Service ◽  
Internship Programs

As undergraduate students prepare to enter the workforce and become engaged members in their communities, it is necessary for universities to provide students with opportunities and resources to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to be successful in their professional, personal, and social pursuits. Experiential learning is one approach that may be used to facilitate and strengthen the learning process for undergraduate students. Grounded in experiential learning, Kinesiology-specific service learning and internship programs can help students develop the skillset needed to be successful in their major and future careers. To best facilitate students’ learning, it is imperative that such academic programs build collaborative, sustainable and genuine campus-community partnerships. This paper presents a series of practical and successful partnership-building strategies from three unique institutions.

scholarly journals The "Art" of the Right to the City: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning in Pointe-St-Charles

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Vaughan ◽  
Emanuelle Dufour ◽  
Cynthia Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teaching ◽  
Concordia University ◽  
The Right ◽  
Oral History Interview ◽  
The City ◽  
Teaching Initiative

What does it mean for artists within academia to make art, teach and learn with and in community, in particular the challenged and challenging Montreal neighborhood of Pointe-St-Charles? This article addresses community engagement in "The Point" from the perspectives of a doctoral student and two instructors involved in "The Right to the City" (TRTC), a three-year, interdisciplinary, placed-based teaching initiative of Concordia University (Montreal). Showcasing the student’s graphic novella, based on the oral history interview of a longtime resident, this article affirms the importance of reciprocity—learning with rather than about—within academic and artistic outreach.

scholarly journals Stefanny Margaretha PERANCANGAN INTERIOR UNTUK KOMUNITAS RECYCLE SAMPAH PLASTIK SEBAGAI TEMPAT WISATA DAN PEMBELAJARAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Stefanny Margaretha ◽  
Alicia Inneke
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Plastic Bags ◽  
The Government ◽  
Form Transformation ◽  
The City ◽  
Beautiful City

The city of Surabaya is the second largest city after Jakarta and of course is inhabited by millions of peoplewho produce trash every day, especially plastic waste which is mostly produced from used food containers,plastic cups, straws and plastic bags. Various methods are used by the government to overcome this problemso that the city of Surabaya can become a cleaner and more beautiful city. One community in Surabaya calledthe Waste Recycling Project is a caring community, focusing on the waste recycling activities in Surabaya.The Waste Recycling Project community is able to change the form (transformation) of waste into functionalgoods. This encourages this community to have a place where it can be developed into a community tourismdestination with a Human Centered Design approach where people and tourists can come to visit the WasteRecycling Project to tour and learn together about plastic waste management. This interior design is focusedon designing a community place that can accommodate gathering activities for service learning, space forplastic waste recycle workshop activities, and as a forum for aspirations of creative ideas as well as a gatheringplace for people who have interests and concerns for the surrounding environment.

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