Community engagement (CE) offers opportunities for students to learn in, from, and with communities as well as to apply knowledge and skills acquired in other areas of learning.
CE invites student to engage with communities in dialogic, reciprocal, reflective, and reflexive ways, and to expand their understanding from a personal to a relational to a systems dimension.
Aim of Community Engagement:
- Relationship & reciprocal collaboration
- Awareness & appreciation of diversity
- Compassionate Integrity
- Start conversations with others
Community Engagement Learning Outcomes:
- Foster reciprocal and dialogic engagement
- Explore systems and develop awareness of their roles within these
- Develop, articulate, and enact ethical thinking and action
- Engage in reflective and reflexive practice