the pedagogy of community-based learning
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CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN LEARNING AND
TEACHING
An-Najah National University
Nablus, May 30-31, 2014
3RD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
New Methods of Education
Community-Based Learning
The Pedagogy of Community-Based Learning What is it AND Why do we use it?
Professor Pandeli Glavanis (PhD)
Director, Academic Community Engagement Program. AUC
Associate Director. Center for Learning and Teaching, AUC
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A WORD FROM OUR
PRESIDENT
Dr Lisa Anderson
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The Challenge
As Lisa Anderson noted we need to
challenge the conventional dominant
market-led model of education and
instead build a more democratic process
that can meet the challenges of
environmental degradation, increasing
social inequality and a new sustainable
economic model for our communities.
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ACE (CBL) is in GOOD
COMPANY!!
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt
to provide the conditions in which
they can learn. (Albert Einstein)
There are two types of education: One
should teach us how to make a living
and the other should teach us how to
live. (John Adams)
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Quotes exemplify two core issues in modern
liberal arts pedagogy
Active Learning
Critical Thinking
Also exemplify the philosophy of ACE (CBL):
Interactive teaching/learning strategy, and
Enhancing civic qualities amongst our
students
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ACE(CBL): THEORETICAL
BACKGROUND The broad aim of ACE is to distinguish
theories of learning as a community process of transformation of participation in sociocultural activities from
Theories that cast learning as a one-sided process in which only teachers or learners are responsible for learning.
Either through transmission of knowledge from experts or acquisition of knowledge by learners by themselves.
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What is ACE?
Defined as experiential learning where students and lecturers collaborate with communities to address problems and issues.
Simultaneously both are gaining knowledge and skills and advancing personal development.
There is an equal emphasis on helping communities and providing valid learning experience to students.
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Goals of ACE
To enhance student learning by joining theory with experience and thought with action.
To fill unmet needs in the community through direct service which is meaningful and necessary.
To assist students to see the relevance of the academic module to the real world.
To enhance the self-esteem and self-confidence of students.
To develop an environment of collegial participation among students, lecturers, and the community.
To increase the civic and citizenship skills of students.
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Types of ACE Teaching
Direct service
◦ Placing students in direct contact with people
Indirect service
◦ Engaging students in performing service by providing goods or a product to a needy cause
Civic action or advocacy
◦ Addressing the cause of a social issue
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OUTCOMES OF ACE
Personal Outcomes
Social Outcomes
Learning Outcomes
Career Development
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Education is the Practice of
Freedom (Paulo Freire)
"This is a great discovery, education is
politics! After that, when a teacher
discovers that he or she is a politician,
too, the teacher has to ask, What kind
of politics am I doing in the
classroom?" Paulo Freire, A Pedagogy for Liberation
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For students to appreciate critical
thinking, and
Learn how to be good citizens
Students must act like citizens
And
Professors must facilitate such: i.e.
academic community engagement (ACE)
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of
awakening the natural curiosity of young
minds for the purpose of satisfying it
afterwards. (Anatole France)
What better way to do so than ACE
Not to do so is to fail our students
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Modern Teaching/Learning
Modern Pedagogy places the focus on LEARNING rather than TEACHING
Learner-centered and experience–based ways of acquiring knowledge , skills and attitudes
Required for us to live in an increasingly complex and changing world
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Cognitive Research & Reflection
Intelligence and expertise derive from an interaction with the environment and not in isolation from it.
Effective learning engages both head and hand and requires both knowing and doing.
BOTH REQUIRE REFLECTION TO LINK KNOWING WITH DOING
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CRITICAL REFLECTION
KEY COMPONENT OF ACE
(CBL) Students should not be given a grade for the
service hours performed
They are given a grade based on the learning that happens because of the service and therefore, the manifestation of that knowledge.
In other words, the reflection assignments are the evaluative measure of a service-learning experience.
Always remember, you do not grade the service, you grade the learning.
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"passive, fragmented, and
decontextualized instruction organized
around generating right answers adds
up to ineffective learning”
INSTEAD
“learning involves reproducing the real-
world environment for learning”
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ACE has been shown by extensive
pedagogic research to exemplify
what is best in the process of
learning.
Not to make use of it in our curricula,
syllabi and classrooms is to negate
our primary role as educators
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HEALTH
WARNINGS
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IT IS NOT……
An episodic volunteer program
An add-on to an existing school or college curriculum
Logging a set number of community service hours in order to graduate
Compensatory service assigned as a form of punishment by the courts or by school administrators
One-sided: benefiting only students or only the community
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TYPE OF SERVICE COMMUNITY
SERVICE ACADEMIC LEARNING
CIVIC LEARNING
VOLUNTEERING YES NO NO
INTERNSHIPS MAYBE YES NO
SERVICE LEARNING (ACE/CBL) YES YES YES
WHAT DISTINGUISHES ACE
FROM OTHER TYPES OF EXPERIENTIAL
LEARNING
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THANK
YOU