Community Service Learning: Social Entrepreneurship

Waterloo, ON

Friday, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:00 PM EST 

{ "name":"Community Service Learning: Social Entrepreneurship", "description": "https://ticketfi.com/event/2702/community-service-learning-social-entrepreneurship\n\n\"Crossing the Town\\/Gown Divide: Students' Learning for Good Community of Practice\\nSession Host: Sean Geobey, Assistant Professor, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development\\n\\nCan the complexity of problem-based learning in the community be coupled with in-class pedagogical supports? This talk will outline the approach in INDEV308: Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship that brings students and community members from industry, government, academic and the social sector together in the classroom to explore complex problems. Over the course of a semester external partners selected for their shared interest in a common issue (ex. sustainable food systems in Waterloo Region) are brought into the classroom twice for three-hour long world café-style discussions to help students identify opportunities for entrepreneurial interventions and to provide them with feedback on early versions of their concepts.\\n\\nJoin us for gourmet lunch and some brainstorming ways to bring EL to every corner of our campus.\\n\\nLunch is included so please RSVP if you are planning to attend. \\n\\nAbout the Crossing the Town\\/Gown Divide: Students' Learning for Good Community of Practice\\n\\nMany UW undergraduate students never venture very far from campus, yet students often report a desire for a sense of community and connectedness. Students report increasingly more stress and feelings of isolation across almost all university campuses; one way to reduce those feelings is to replace them with a sense of meaningfulness in their studies. Community service learning (CSL) can do just that.  According to Taylor and Raykov (2014), over 95% of students felt that “participation in community organizations is important for overall social development, developing employability skills, and developing networks”, and 90% said they would probably recommend this form of learning to others.  Given that many employers report that they want students who can collaborate, this kind of experiential teaching and learning should be an integral part of post-secondary education.\\n\\nWe know students love these experiences and gain a great deal from them. Faculty, however, may not know how to connect students with community partners- or even how to identify those partners and\\/or experiences. This Community of Practice is designed to allow faculty across campus to meet, talk about, and share the ways we identify, build, nourish, and sustain community connections for our students’ (and the community’s) benefit.\\n\"", "startDate":"2018-11-23", "endDate":"2018-11-23", "startTime":"12:00", "endTime":"13:00", "location":"QNC 1201 - ", "label":"Add to Calendar", "options":[ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "Outlook.com", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone":"US/Eastern", "trigger":"click", "inline":true, "listStyle":"modal", "iCalFileName":"invite.ics" }