Reading Journal
“CH 1: What are Service Learning and Civic Engagement”-100 words Cress (2013) stats that service learning and civic engagement is a concept that helps others and yourself, that everyone should take some type of service learning to understand the way of our environment. She talks about community-based learning which is that students engage in actively addressing mutually defined community needs as vehicle for achieving academic goals and course objectives. Students who engage in activities where the emphasis is on service for the sake of the beneficiary or recipient is what Cress calls volunteerism. Internship is where students engage in activities to enhance their own vocational or career development (Cress 2013).
Exercise 1.4:
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Being a good citizen would be to volunteers at a local food back and donating to local homeless stores. Being able to understand what your community really needs by educating yourself.
What is a global citizen? Global citizens who identity with a global community, who believes that global community is more important than their identity as a citizen of a nation or place.
What, in your view, are the pros and cons of requiring community-based learning course? Pros for community based learning mutually defined community needs, with being able to work with community partners, faculty, and students. Cons I believe would be students would work on to much things at once and might overwhelm themselves and not be able to focus on one thing.
What specific knowledge or skills have you learned in your course that you can apply to this community site? I feel that my knowledge of sociology I have learned that we as a community needs to work together to make our community great. That volunteering helps everyone not just the people who needs it, because it helps yourself
Service-learning is defined as a “course-based, credit-bearing educational experience in which students (a) participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and (b) reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility” (Bringle & Hatcher, 1995).
4Lopez, Hugo and Benjamin Brown. 2006. Civic Engagement among 2-year and 4-year College Students. Somerville, MA: The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
The functional area of service-learning is currently emerging as an acknowledged department at an institution of higher education. The theoretical roots of service learning go back to John Dewey, and the early twentieth century. However, current research on service-learning pedagogy dates back only to the early 1990’s. Best practices for the field are still being created as more and more new offices are springing up on campuses throughout the United States and institutions internationally. The reason this functional area is becoming ever popular is due to the positive impact it has on students and most all educational outcomes.
In my view, a good citizen is someone who not only fulfills their duties as a citizen, but exceeds expectations. As a citizen it is our duty to know and exercise our rights & freedoms, as well as not to infringe on the rights and freedoms of others.
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Waldstein, F. A., & Reiher, T. C. (2001). Service -learning and students' personal and civic development. [Electronic Version]. Journal of Experiential Education, 24(1), 7-13.
important issues, gain new perspectives and provides learning experiences for volunteers as well as individuals from underserved groups. Because of the numerous benefits, college students should enroll in the Service Learning courses or service learning based programs. These programs allows students to move away from the dualism versus unity point of view and focus on reciprocity and provides the skills necessary to approach future service experiences with a service learning perspective.
* A citizen is a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized. What makes a “good” citizen? * Good citizenship means to conduct oneself in accordance with the rights, duties, and privileges of being an inhabitant of a geographical location by means of birth or naturalization.
Following participation in an Engaged Department Institute sponsored by Campus Compact, a service-learning requirement was instituted for all majors in the department studied beginning Fall 2002. All faculty were encouraged to incorporate service-learning in their courses. A training session on service-learning was the centerpiece of a departmental retreat in January 2002. In order to develop closer relationships with community agencies, the department hosted a faculty-partnership luncheon the following fall semester. Potential community partners were invited to meet with faculty in an effort to forge new relationships with the University. In order to institutionalize service-learning, all recruitment advertisements specifically mention service-learning and all new hires are expected to include service-learning components in their courses. As a consequence of these efforts, this department has gone from teaching only a few courses with service-learning components to offering twenty five different classes (thirteen courses) by Fall 2002.
When you think of a good citizen what do you think of? Naturally we think of someone who is active in their community, and takes responsibility for their actions. So what is a good citizen on a global level? What is Global Citizenship? Well, opendemocracy.net states that,
Activities and philosophies that advocate for the connecting of communities with socially sentient beliefs and actions is what have come to be referred to as civic engagement. They are thus individual or collective actions aimed at addressing issues that are deemed to be of public concern. They can be manifested in many ways including; public service, civil activity, service-learning, crusading and advocacy to mention but a few as the list is endless.
Community service: What a wonderful opportunity for students! A chance for our younger citizens to learn responsibility, experience the satisfaction that comes with helping others and to acquire new skills.
As young people’s civic and political participation continues to decline, a number of organizations are working to reverse the decline by increasing opportunities for youth to participate. Communities around the country are taking steps to engage young people through a variety of methods that allow youth to actually participate in policy development and take action on local issues. The effectiveness of such community programs on long-term civic engagement is not well documented, however. This paper presents preliminary research about the effectiveness of one community participation program, the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Youth Advisory Council. Quantitative and anecdotal evidence, while not conclusive, suggest this community problem solving approach may encourage its participants to engage in other civic and political activities. The paper also discusses the benefits that organizations and communities receive when young people participate in this way, and provides recommendations for developing a similar youth participation program.
Doing so means helping others out with our resources and talents. Lastly, responsible citizenship means to care for all of creation. Further, this means to go global and care for all the world. One example of responsible citizenship comes when you go out of your way to help people in your own community. In April of 2011, multiple tornadoes hit Cleveland and left many without homes.
Community engagement is the active participation of local residents and community groups in the decisions that affect their lives (Herefordshire Council, 2013). Therefore, community engagement should be about engaging in open communication to ensure the council understands the needs of the local community.