Today@Dal

The deadline to submit proposals has been extended to Friday, February 6, 2015 at mid-night.

This year the conference theme is: The Significance of Community Engagement for Student Learning

Community-engaged learning can be defined along a broad spectrum of work-integrated learning and internship/practicum/co-op education through to community service learning, whether local or global. Everyone involved in community-engaged learning is impacted when students, faculty and community come together to support teaching and learning processes, in with and for community. Our hope is to spark conversation and to facilitate the sharing of evidence-based practices and authentic experiences so we can learn from one another about the myriad possibilities and partnerships that can enrich and deepen student learning.

We invite proposals for papers, workshops, panels, and interactive sessions. Individual submissions are welcome. Joint submissions involving community organizations, practitioners, faculty, staff and students, are highly encouraged. The Conference theme invites contributions that may focus on, but are not exclusively limited to:

• frameworks for understanding, conceptualizing and implementing community-engaged learning (How do we understand, conceptualize and implement community-engaged learning, whether curricular or co-curricular, long- or short-term, individual or group placements, local or global/cross-cultural?)
• addressing goals of community organizations (private, public, non-profit) through community-engaged learning (Can organizational goals be supported by students’ learning in the community? If so, how? What is the impact on partner organizations?)
• impact of community-engaged learning on student learning (What learning do students gain from community-engaged experience including cognitive development, professional skills, world view/social justice, citizenship, self knowledge/reflective opportunities and research? How do they bring their learning back to the classroom/university?) assessment and evaluation of community-engaged learning (How do we assess students’ learning in, with and for community? How do we evaluate our program effectiveness?)
  

To learn more and to download the call, please visit http://www.dal.ca/dept/clt/events-news/DCUTL/Call_DCUTL.html