Event Title
Models of Engagement: Fostering Service Based Community Partnerships
Location
Hart 117
Start Time
15-5-2008 10:15 AM
End Time
15-5-2008 11:00 AM
Description
College partnerships involving service-learning projects build student and community engagement through an integrated curriculum. This approach improves academic skills, problem-solving, ethical development, social responsibility, political efficacy, and community diversity building. College and community partnership and service learning models and examples will be used to illustrate the potential of this approach. This presentation discusses theoretical relationships between community partnerships and service learning as well as models of engagement. Examples include: 1) BOND – student organization engages with NGOs to build organizational capacity; 2) Community Sustainable Development – high schools, a college; and Roots/Shoots – the Jane Goodall Institute resolves environmental issues; 3) Dubai Project – distance education tools develop international service learning; 4) Brockton Mentoring Program – reduces drop-out rates at an inner city high school through college mentoring program; 5) Plymouth Aquifer – student research guides citizen water conservation project; 6) Carbon Offsets Alternatives – alternative carbon offset models reduce the impact of travel emissions.
Models of Engagement: Fostering Service Based Community Partnerships
Hart 117
College partnerships involving service-learning projects build student and community engagement through an integrated curriculum. This approach improves academic skills, problem-solving, ethical development, social responsibility, political efficacy, and community diversity building. College and community partnership and service learning models and examples will be used to illustrate the potential of this approach. This presentation discusses theoretical relationships between community partnerships and service learning as well as models of engagement. Examples include: 1) BOND – student organization engages with NGOs to build organizational capacity; 2) Community Sustainable Development – high schools, a college; and Roots/Shoots – the Jane Goodall Institute resolves environmental issues; 3) Dubai Project – distance education tools develop international service learning; 4) Brockton Mentoring Program – reduces drop-out rates at an inner city high school through college mentoring program; 5) Plymouth Aquifer – student research guides citizen water conservation project; 6) Carbon Offsets Alternatives – alternative carbon offset models reduce the impact of travel emissions.
Comments
Moderator: Suzanne Miller