Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Presented by
Dr CJ Gerda Bender
Department of Curriculum Studies
Faculty of Education
Tel: 4203331 or 4604244
gerda.bender@up.ac.za
Outline of Orientation
• Community Engagement: What is it?
• Community engagement at UP Who is the community?
Where and who are involved? CHESP
• Curricular Community Engagement
What is it?
Why CCE Learning?
Partnership
Community Services/Organisation
Curricular Community Engagement
• What is it?
Scholarship of Engagement
(Boyer, 1990)
The scholarship of engagement (Boyer, 1990)
• The scholarship of discovery: Closely resembles the notion
of research and contributes to the total stock of human
knowledge.
• The scholarship of integration: Underscores the need for
scholars to give meaning to their discovery by putting it
in perspective and interpreting it in relation to other
discoveries and forms of knowledge.
• The scholarship of application: Theory leads to practice and
practice leads to theory. Community engagement, viewed
and practised as a scholarly activity, provides the
context for a dialogue between theory and practice
through reflection.
• The scholarship of teaching: Within the framework of a
scholarship of engagement, the traditional roles of
teacher and learner become somewhat blurred. What
emerges is a learning community including community
members, students, academic staff and service
providers.
Forms of Community Engaged
Learning (CEL)
• Community Service remains the one most widely used
term in HE institutions in SA to describe student activity in
community settings. The primary focus is on service and
the beneficiary of service – there is no planned intention to
link the formal learning process with the actual community
service. (national community service) (e.g.: Faculty of
Health Sciences)
• Community – based education denotes a mutual linking of
community service and academic training aimed at
addressing needs in society, at deepening/strengthening
students’ learning experience and at enriching the
teaching actions of lecturers ( Community-based projects;
CS projects and programmes, linked to learning
programmes as well as CS research) (e.g.: Faculty of
Health Sciences; EBIT)
Forms of Community Engaged
Learning (CEL)
• Internships (also referred to as 'clinical practice or practicals’ in
many instances in the final year of academic programmes) are
used extensively in many professional programmes such as
Faculty of Humanities: Social Work, Psychology; Health
sciences: Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Nursing;
Education: Teaching internships; Law; Veterinary Science;
Theology; Economic and Management Sciences.
• Service-Learning / Community-based Learning (e.g.: Faculty of
Health Sciences; Education; Humanities). Reciprocity and
Reflection are central characteristics of service-learning. The
primary focus of courses/modules in programmes is on
integrating community service with scholarly activity such as
student learning, teaching, and research. An integrated
curriculum model for Service-Learning at UP has been proposed
and included in a training programme for academic staff and
administrators (SLTP).
Service-Learning (SL)
• Students
• Academic staff
• University
• Community / Service agencies
Academic Benefits
National Policies
National Policies Theoretical
Theoretical
And Policies
And Policies of
of the
the Institution
Institution Framework
Framework
An Integrated
Curriculum
model for CEL
Theory and
Quality
Quality Practice Partnership
Partnership
Management
Management development
development
Risk
Risk
management
management