Inquiry into Service Learning: From Learning Outcomes to Dissemination

Posted by on September 26, 2011

Inquiry into Service Learning: From Learning Outcomes to Dissemination

Friday, November 4, 2011

2:00pm – 3:30pm Eastern / 1:00pm – 2:30pm Central / 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific

Register at http://servicelearninginquiry.eventbrite.com/

Service learning has the potential to change the world.  Inquiry into our own service learning practice has the potential to change our teaching, our students’ learning, and scholarship in the academic disciplines and service learning itself.

In this webinar, learn how to ask good questions about your practice and your students’ learning that get at the big ideas and goals of your community-based work.  Develop your capacity to embed assessment that is ongoing, actively engages students, and provides documentation for future reflection.  Gain practical strategies for systematic and critical reflection on your success and failures.  And finally, learn how to share your new knowledge from inquiry in publications and other scholarly products to advance the field.  This webinar is appropriate for faculty who engage in service-learning or community based learning, or plan to engage in these pedagogies, and for staff and administrators who work with faculty.

Presenters:
David M. Donahue, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Mills College, Oakland, California, works with teacher credential students preparing to teach art, English, and history in secondary schools and with graduate students investigating teaching and learning with a focus on equity in urban contexts.  His research interests include teacher learning generally and learning from the arts and service-learning specifically.  Most recently, he is co-editor of the book Artful Teaching:  Integrating the Arts for Understanding Across the Curriculum published in 2010 by Teachers College Press.  He is also co-editor Democratic Dilemmas of Teaching Service Learning:  Curricular Strategies for Success published by Stylus in 2011.  In 2008, he was selected by Campus Compact as one of 10 Engaged Scholars for New Perspectives in Higher Education.

Jennifer M. Pigza is the chair of the graduate program in leadership for social justice and the associate director of the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action at Saint Mary’s College of California. Jennifer has been invested in engaged pedagogy and social justice education for nearly 20 years, beginning with four years of non-profit work through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Her latest professional joys include the development of a new graduate program and co-teaching a course to Rwanda this January. Jennifer holds a bachelors degree in English literature (Loyola University Maryland) and a masters of education degree in higher education and student affairs administration (University of Vermont), and a doctorate in the social foundations of education (University of Maryland).

REGISTRATION DETAILS:

These webinars are part of an ongoing professional development series sponsored by California Campus Compact, Iowa Campus Compact, Kansas Campus Compact and Minnesota Campus Compact.  Faculty, staff, students, and other affiliated individuals at member institutions of the Compacts in these states qualify for half-price, discounted ticket rate; as do individuals from campuses that belong to Campus Compact, but are not members of a state compact.

Registrants will receive a confirmation email with log-in information for the webinar.

The regular registration fee is $60.00 per login
The discounted registration fee is $30.00 per login

Multiple people may participate in the webinar under one registration as long as they are using one computer.  While the registration fee is non-refundable, all registrants will have access to the webinar slides and materials.

For more information, contact John Hamerlinck at john@mncampuscompact.org or 320-308-4271.