Community engagement, extending higher education student learning and raising aspirations of primary school children: initial reflections

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-177
Author(s):  
Philippe Crisp
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Educational Aspirations ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Innovative Practice ◽  
Sport Type

This innovative practice paper reflects on how a university community engagement (CE) project, run at a higher education (HE) institution in the south of England and established in 2014 as a series of community sport type initiatives, has had two elements related to widening participation emerge. Firstly, the CE has played a role in extending the learning of over 100 students enrolled on sports coaching degrees. This is demonstrated through some of them explicitly stating that their experience of the CE has informed their decisions to continue their education and enter Initial Teacher Training (ITT) programmes. The second element relates to the specific experiences of a local primary school that visits the HE to participate in the CE programme. Here, by linking community needs and resources, some of the key personnel from the school have explained how the visits have contributed to the schoolchildren's educational aspirations. Whilst this element is not necessarily certain in its eventual outcome, given the young age of the participants, this innovative practice paper does extol the benefits of community collaborations and uniting efforts; it shares some of the key principles necessary for others to replicate the CE programme in order to support widening participation and lifelong learning.

Pengenalan Literasi Sampah Pada Anak-Anak Melalui Video Dan Permainan

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Septin Puji Astuti ◽  
Ardhi Ristiawan ◽  
Annida Unnatiq Ulya ◽  
Purwono Purwono ◽  
Nurwulan Purnasari
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
School Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
Social Agent ◽  
Game Simulation ◽  
Waste Separation ◽  
The Right

Environmental education creates environmental behaviour of people. Children are social agent who plays prominent role for shaping future life. In order to create environmental consciousness generation environmental education should be delivered to children. This paper reports community engagement activity through providing environmental education for first to third grade of primary school children. The delivery process of environmental education to children was transferred through movies and games. Two movies were played to children have attracted them to understand of the prominent of putting trash to the right litter bin. Meanwhile, game simulation for practicing waste separation resulted 96% of children were able to put rubbish in the right litter: organic, paper and plastic litter. Children who did wrong argue that they made mistakes due to time limit which influenced them to put to the right litter.

scholarly journals Introduction and Editorial

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
John Butcher ◽  
Samantha Broadhead
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
Innovative Practice ◽  
Value Of Learning

I am delighted to introduce a new edition of Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, and to thank our colleague on the editorial board, Dr Samantha Broadhead, for her sterling work in bringing this wide-ranging collection to publication. As Sam suggests in her editorial, the articles, reports of innovative practice and book review demonstrate a lively and buoyant interest across the sector in access to higher education and the value of learning opportunities for adults. I am lucky to have just returned from a conference in Madrid at which there was much discussion amongst European colleagues of inclusive teaching and personalised support to enable more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in their studies. This edition of the journal makes a significant contribution to those debates.

scholarly journals Student Teachers and Kindergarten Children Talking about Picturebooks Focusing School in Didactic Research Labs at University

2021 ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Jeannette Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Kindergarten Children ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Literacy Studies ◽  
Primary School Student ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Selection Of

Within the project“Lehren, Lernen und Forschen in Werkstätten” (Teaching, Learning and Researching in Laboratories) from 2016-2019, German didactic seminars were held in the “Lern- und Forschungswerkstatt Grundschule” (LuFo) (Primary Education Research Lab) at the Technische Universität (TU) of Dresden. The seminars, which were attended by primary education student teachers, dealt with telling stories to wordless picturebooks, reading aloud picturebooks about school or other literary themes. The student teachers dealt with selected picturebooks from the perspective of literature didactics, visual literacy studies and empirical research on reception of literature. They designed didactic arrangements in the sense of inquiry-based learning and invited kindergarten and primary school children to the LuFo to explore the stories told in the picturebooks together with them. The study is based on the student teachers' seminar papers in which they describe their projects, give didactic reasons for the selection of literature and analyse their interactions with the children around the picturebooks. Using the example of picturebooks about school, the study uses the Key Incident Analysis to ask which books the student teachers choose and how they receive them, in what form they discuss them with the children and how they shape the reading situations and finally, how they reflect on their own learning processes. The results give an insight into both the processes of reflection of the primary school student teachers and the processes of literary learning of the children.

scholarly journals Widening participation and higher education. Students, systems and other paradoxes

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.W. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Participation In Higher Education

This paper has developed from research that the author initiated. The data were derived from an outreach project that aimed to increase awareness of and participation in higher education amongst Muslim women within a major English city. The paper elevates some of the author's findings into a general discussion on the role of higher education (HE) and the paradoxes that are revealed when considering how concepts of widening participation and lifelong learning fit within the HE system. Readers are invited to think of different approaches to widening participation, for example through civic and community engagement, and consider sustained research that relates access to wider debates within the study of HE, such as lifelong learning and civic responsibility.

Conceptualising scholarship within college-based higher education

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Higher Vocational Education ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Rich

Purpose – During a period of significant crisis within HE on a global scale, there is a clear need for colleges to clearly articulate the distinct nature of their higher vocational education provision. This need is particularly acute given the current financial and political pressures impacting on a diverse HE landscape. The purpose of this paper is to argue that colleges are well placed to develop and implement an approach to scholarly activity which revitalises links with local communities. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a synthesis of recent research on scholarly activity within college-based higher education (CBHE) and the concept of a “civic university”. It also provides a brief case study of how scholarship within the college context can be utilised to promote meaningful community engagement. Findings – Working productively with community organisations, groups and individuals, colleges will be provoked to recast the complex relationship between teaching, research and community engagement in a manner appropriate to their immediate context rather than a national agenda. Moreover, a strengthened relationship between colleges and their local communities will recapture the rich heritage of vocational education in widening participation and raising aspirations towards education in general. Originality/value – This paper attempts to relocate current discussions of CBHE scholarly activity within the context of civic engagement. It will be of interest to colleagues across the higher vocational education sector, both nationally and internationally, in situating their institutional and departmental scholarly activity strategies within the context of the communities which they serve.

Thriving in Academia: Understanding and Managing the Complexities of Faculty Work

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ketevan Mamiseishvili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Higher Education Research ◽  
Faculty Work ◽  
College And University ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
University Settings

In this paper, I will illustrate the changing nature and complexity of faculty employment in college and university settings. I will use existing higher education research to describe changes in faculty demographics, the escalating demands placed on faculty in the work setting, and challenges that confront professors seeking tenure or administrative advancement. Boyer’s (1990) framework for bringing traditionally marginalized and neglected functions of teaching, service, and community engagement into scholarship is examined as a model for balancing not only teaching, research, and service, but also work with everyday life.

The prevalence of allergic diseases in primary school children in Edirne, Turkey

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. TOROS SELCUK ◽  
T. CAG-LAR ◽  
T. ENUNLU ◽  
T. TOPAL
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Allergic Diseases ◽  
Primary School Children
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