2012 Faculty Summer Institute on Service-Learning

This year the Centre for Community Partnerships is excited to feature the prominent education and academic service-learning scholar, Dan Butin, at our 4th Faculty Summer Institute on Service-Learning. In his keynote and workshop, Prof. Butin will lead us through an analysis of what brings each of us to service-learning and to consider the political, technical and epistemological underpinnings of our approach to the pedagogy.

Registration fee:
UT Faculty & Staff $80, Graduate Students $15, Non-UT Participants $100

Registration opens: March 26th

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Join us at the Centre for Community Partnerships for our faculty gatherings.

These are opportunities for faculty partners who have taught, are teaching, or plan to teach a service-learning course to come together for informal discussion. A Faculty Gathering provides a useful forum in which to connect with colleagues, share ideas and strategies, cross promote initiatives, and help the Centre for Community Partnerships in developing a suite of faculty development events.

Click here to see details of our next Gathering.

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Preparation for Service

Students' service-learning placements may require them to enter communities (physical and demographic) in the city that are unfamiliar. Entering and exiting communities respectfully are skills that can be acquired and are essential to having a meaningful and engaging service-learning experience. Service-learning training and placement preparation offers students the opportunity to develop new skills, new perspectives, and to critically reflect on their values and attitudes.

Please encourage your students to join us for our Walk the Talk workshop, offered four times this academic year.

Walk the Talk: Preparing for Service in Diverse Communities

Students can register here

 

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12th International Research Conference on Service-learning and Community Engagement

The theme for the 12th annual conference is the generative power of connections and relationships in research on service-learning and community engagement. A distinguishing characteristic of both the design of engaged research and the pedagogy of service-learning is its intended reciprocity and mutuality. As educators we develop partnerships with community partners and citizens, undergraduate and graduate students, teachers and K-12 students, and other faculty to participate in engaged research and teaching, and to study it. Such learning partnerships are at the center of how we connect research to policy and practice. These learning partnerships are also how we connect different theoretical and grounded perspectives to the research designs we choose, as they encourage interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to knowing and doing. Finally, these learning partnerships are how we engage in peer-to-peer mentoring and both mentor and learn from the next generation of engaged scholars, a particular strength of the IARSLCE. The 12th Annual IARSLCE Conference in Baltimore seeks to break new ground by focusing our attention on transformative learning partnerships in our research and scholarship on community engagement, in our research with community partners, and in the kinds of connections those learning partnerships leverage and facilitate. We are particularly interested in how our research provides evidence for how to improve these relationships.

• Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
• Campus Compact
• Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation
• Int'l Assoc. for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement
• Student Registration with CCP