Education, Community, and Social Engagement

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby S. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Graduate Faculty ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Approach To Teaching

In many higher education and student affairs graduate programs the responsibility for providing field-based learning often falls on the graduate assistantship. Programs often situate theoretical learning inside the classroom and practical engagement at the assistantship site. The growing urgency for educators to create transformative learning experiences and to integrate deep interactions with issues of social justice into the classroom challenges graduate faculty to re-evaluate their approach to teaching and learning. In this chapter, the author makes the case for adopting a creative, community-based, and culturally engaging approach to teaching in graduate education programs.

Education, Community, and Social Engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Toby S. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Graduate Faculty ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Approach To Teaching

In many higher education and student affairs graduate programs the responsibility for providing field-based learning often falls on the graduate assistantship. Programs often situate theoretical learning inside the classroom and practical engagement at the assistantship site. The growing urgency for educators to create transformative learning experiences and to integrate deep interactions with issues of social justice into the classroom challenges graduate faculty to re-evaluate their approach to teaching and learning. In this chapter, the author makes the case for adopting a creative, community-based, and culturally engaging approach to teaching in graduate education programs.

Cultural Pedagogy and Transformative Learning: Reflections on Teaching in a Māori Environment in Aotearoa/New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
Ksenija Napan ◽  
Helene Connor ◽  
Lynda Toki
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Transformative Teaching ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Pedagogy ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Approach To Teaching

This article explores a synergy of inquiry-based learning and a cultural pedagogy within a Māori environment, the marae (communal meeting place) while using Academic Co-Creative Inquiry (ACCI), an innovative approach to teaching and learning which enables teachers and students to cocreate the content and the process of the course through personalized inquiries. Three areas form the focus of this article: an exploration of cultural pedagogy within a marae space, an ACCI process, and the culturally responsive Māori pedagogy of ako (teaching and learning). These three areas created a context for transformative learning. Authors reflect on how three academic women, two Māori and one Pākehā (person of European descent) each explored how the physical space of Ngākau Māhaki (name of the carved meeting house, meaning respectful heart) at Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae (name of the marae complex) contributed to transformative teaching and learning processes.

CONSTRUCTIVE ALIGNMENT: A JOURNEY FOR NEW EYES

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. 291-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLIN JONES
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Constructive Alignment ◽  
Enterprise Education ◽  
Approach To Teaching

The needs of students engaged in enterprise education programs are of ever growing importance. This paper considers the pedagogical challenges that confront the designers of such-programs. It is argued that it is the designer's mindset that will most likely determine the program's outcomes. That, regardless of where such programs reside, their development should be guided by a learner-centred approach. The recently developed hic et nunc framework, provides an example of such a student-centred approach. The process through which student learning outcomes occur is argued to be essentially Darwinian in nature. Taking into account both knowledge and skills, it is also argued that assessment of desirable learning outcomes should occur in visible interaction spaces. That the failure to eliminate invisible interaction spaces from such programs is an invitation for criticism from those who favour a more traditional lecturer-centred approach to teaching and learning.

scholarly journals El alineamiento constructivo de un curso online de aprendizaje-servicio

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Joana Bezerra ◽  
Sharli Paphitis
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Curriculum Alignment ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Constructive Alignment ◽  
Approach To Teaching

Service-learning is gaining traction worldwide, including South Africa. This pedagogy requires a different approach to teaching and learning and few resources are available to provide such support. A course for lecturers that either already teach a service-learning course or are interested in doing so, would address this need, but, as with any other course, its constructive alignment is key. Online courses reach more people, but also add another layer of complexity. The aim of this paper is to discuss the constructive alignment of an online community-based service-learning course and to provide a roadmap for other institutions to develop such courses. A community-based service-learning course that brings together the critical elements of how to develop such  course and, is revised using a curriculum alignment lens, offers a more critical and relevant experience, for the lecturers, which will lead to more critical and sound service-learning courses for the students. 

Interconnectedness of Adult Basic Education, Community-Based Participatory Research, and Transformative Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 074171362110441
Author(s):  
Monika Kastner ◽  
Ricarda Motschilnig
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Adult Basic Education ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Education Community

This article argues for the beneficial interconnectedness of adult basic education as an educational practice, community-based participatory research as a methodological approach, and the framework of transformative learning, for exploring and theorizing about adult learning and education. It is elaborated that these three approaches are connected by shared core values that counter the dominant economistic discourse on adult basic education. A community-based participatory research project, comprising researchers with an adult basic education learners’ background, adult basic education practitioners, and the two authors as university-based researchers, serves as a local empirical example. Selected data from the research process illustrate how these three approaches complement each other and can show their inherent potential. Together, these three approaches establish a democratic space of learning and thus act as a resource of hope for education and research aimed at (self-) empowerment, emancipation, participation, and collective action toward humanization, democratization, and social justice.

scholarly journals “I Think of my Classroom as a Place of Healing”: Experiences of Indigenous Students in a Community-Based Master of Education Program in Saskatchewan

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-107
Author(s):  
James Alan Oloo ◽  
Michael Relland
Keyword(s):  
Education Program ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Western Canada ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Master Of Education

An increase in the number of Indigenous teachers and education administrators is an important way to help improve Indigenous educational outcomes. However, while Indigenous teacher education programs in western Canada are registering increasing enrolments, master of education programs that prioritize Indigenous perspectives and pedagogies are rare in Canada. Using conversational method, this study examines experiences of six Indigenous students in a community-based master of education program that is a first of its kind in western Canada. The program is delivered by an Indigenous institution in partnership with a public university. The study is grounded in an Indigenous paradigm, namely, the Nehinuw (Cree) concepts of teaching and learning. Content analysis of data revealed five themes and sub-themes: (a) self-doubt; (b) a feeling of guilt as a result of family-work-school conflict; (c) self-advocacy; (d) re/connection with self, culture, and heritage; and (e) professional transformation. In general, a master of education degree is a requirement for educational administration positions including vice principal, principal, and superintendent. Understanding and acting upon the kinds of strategies that could enhance the success of Indigenous students in graduate programs is a key policy step in addressing the existing gaps in educational attainment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.

1. The Neoliberal Logic of Service-Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Snider Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Community Based ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

<?page nr="1"?>Abstract This article investigates the ways in which service-learning manifests within our neoliberal clime, suggesting that service-learning amounts to a foil for neoliberalism, allowing neoliberal political and economic changes while masking their damaging effects. Neoliberalism shifts the relationship between the public and the private, structures higher education, and promotes a façade of community-based university partnerships while facilitating a pervasive regime of control. This article demonstrates that service-learning amounts to an enigma of neoliberalism, making possible the privatization of the public and the individualizing of social problems while masking evidence of market-based societal control. Neoliberal service-learning distances service from teaching and learning, allows market forces to shape university-community partnerships, and privatizes the public through dispossession by accumulation.

Book Review: Shifting Paradigms in Student Affairs: Culture, Context, Teaching, and Learning

NASPA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carney Strange
Keyword(s):  
Student Affairs ◽  
Teaching And Learning

Are you the kind of person who yawns through a conference schedule to automatically eliminate any program containing pedagogy, Eurocentric, praxis, emergent or hegemonic in the title? Does the word paradigm evoke images of Andy Rooney whining at the end of "60 Minutes" about having to learn new things all over again ("When will it stop shifting?"), just because somebody cooked up a fancy word for describing how we think? If this whole discussion about changing worldviews sends you packing for a couple of pills of super-strength Tylenol, then 'Shifting Paradigms' may not be for you. If, however, you are the perceptive sort who has become genuinely and increasingly frustrated with the fact that the old, "tried and true" ways of doing things just do not seem to work all that well anymore, then this book might just offer a means for understanding how and why a change in our thinking is a must for continuing survival today's world.

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