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C. Using Community as Text
Many professors who endorse experiential education as another valid route
to intellectual development contend that there is enormous academic value
to be found by systematically understanding how community activists analyze
and resolve complicated socio-economic, socio-political, and other thorny
issues in neighborhoods and workplaces. As such, the community itself
provides text for learning.
- Augsburg College - Engaging Minneapolis
An urban context is utilized to foster learning.
- College of Notre Dame,
Baltimore - International Cooperation in Service
Nanzan Junior College (Nagoya, Japan) offers new learning opportunities.
- College of St. Catherine - Using
Technology
Positive feedback is reportedly acting as a spur to progress and adding
to the will to do more with technology.
- Ithaca College - Cinema on the
Edge
The production of a short documentary, “Passin it On,” is
used in collaboration with members of a nearby community as well as
by using a multidisciplinary approach.
- Johnson C. Smith University -
Urban Research Group
By assisting community-based organizations in meeting their planning
and program implementation needs, students, directed by faculty members,
use the city as a learning laboratory for conducting research projects.
For example, they do assessments of: neighborhood demands, health and
illness surveys, analyses of perceptions of racial discrimination in
court proceedings, plans for social and infrastructure improvements,
applications for grants, and designing wellness and after-school programs.
- Maryville College - Just Connections
Service-learning and community-based research projects in the mountain
regions are conjoined. Projects provide learning value to students who
apply academic knowledge to community problems and to community members
who strengthen research capacity for achieving social justice goals.
- New England College - Project
Pericles
Focus is on knowledge of the fundamentals of a democratic society and
involvement rooted in community service.
- New England College - Teaching
the Pedagogy of Service-Learning to Pre-Service Teachers
The community is the text through which pre-service teachers develop
the skills, knowledge, and dispositions of highly effective, qualified
teachers. Working closely with professional development school partners,
pre-service teachers identify needs, review professional literature,
work with mentor teachers to better understand the policies and procedures
relating to those needs, and work to meet those needs.
- North Central College - The Dispute
Resolution Center
Various community settings provide the opportunity to become skilled
in mediation while doing something about local disputes that involve
real parties and real money.
- Rhodes College - The
Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies
The racial and cultural diversity of Memphis provides the setting for
this experiential learning project.
- Tougaloo College - Partnership in
Excellence
Students read materials related to community issues, research those
issues, and hear from outside resource people who are invited to class
to discuss these issues with them.
- University of St. Francis - Occupational
Therapy and Homeless Shelter
The occupational therapy lens of "occupational wholeness"
prompts a view of the residents in the homeless shelter as being in
a state of occupational dysfunction. Involvement at the shelter is to
utilize the scholarship of application to enhance the residents' occupational
performance with the intent of breaking the individual and population
cycles of homelessness. Students may choose to further their experience
by performing an intensive internship at the site, with faculty serving
as guides in similar fashion to the previous coursework. Students addressed
the needs of residents.
- University of the Incarnate Word
- Ministerio de Salud
Community partnerships via the nursing department have been expanded
to the work of other academic departments: business, physical education,
nutrition, English, communication arts, and Spanish.
- Wagner College - Learning by Doing
Use is made of distinctive learning communities to provide the text
for illustrating a theme that is common to lecturers from different
disciplines. Relevant experiential components include community-based
research group projects, community service activities, and prescribed
field trips.
- Wartburg College - Community Builders:
Fostering Intergenerational Civic Engagement
Students learn from public school 5th and 6th graders, at-risk adolescents,
and adult institutional partners.
- Wesleyan College, Macon - Aunt Maggie’s
Kitchen Table
The college neighborhood is plagued by drugs, violence, illiteracy,
poor health, and many other signs of decline. It is rich with potential
for learning and service.
- William Woods University - The
Rosa Parks Center
The community serves as teacher for learning about youth who undergo
therapeutic treatment for having been behavioral offenders.
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