Sheila Cordner ServiceLearning Project Goals To gain a new perspective on your study of literature To bring literature in some way to a group of people in our city outside of Boston University ID: 477265
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Engaging Students through Service-Learning
Sheila CordnerSlide2
Service-Learning Project Goals
To gain a new perspective on
your
study of literature.
To bring literature in some way to a group of people in our city outside of Boston University.
To become more engaged students of literature.
To relate what you are learning as college students to important issues in our contemporary society.Slide3
Service-Learning
vs.
Community Service
Service-learning:
“
a form of experiential learning where students
and faculty
collaborate with communities to address problems and issues, simultaneously gaining knowledge and skills and advancing personal development”
-
- UCLA’s Higher Education
Research InstituteSlide4
“
While service-learning may have been taken up originally (and enthusiastically) by faculty in occupational fields such as business and education and social science fields such as sociology and political science,
we believe that community service learning certainly can play an equal role, and may even play a larger one, in humanistic disciplines such as philosophy.
In order to thrive, these fields need to demonstrate their relevance to a new generation of young adults, and community service learning represents an important vehicle for doing
so.”
--Scott
Seider
& Jason
TaylorSlide5
EN 220: SEMINAR IN LITERATURE
Seminar theme of
EDUCATION
Course texts included:
Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B”
William Wordsworth, “
The Tables Turned” and “Expostulation and Reply
”
Ama
Ata
Aidoo
,
Changes: A Love
Story
Thomas Hardy,
Jude the
Obscure
Margaret
Edson
,
Wit
Slide6
EN 220 SERVICE PROJECTS
Students participated in 4 educational projects in Boston:
Book Club at Hale House
, a low-income senior center and nursing home.
Writing workshop for inner-city youth at
826 Boston
.
Prison Book Program
Sudanese Education FundSlide7
Project Requirements
1) Sign up for
project
2)
Participate with a group in one of the service
projects
3)
Report back to the
class
4)
Write a reflection relating the experience to course
texts
and class
discussionsSlide8
Student Feedback
“
…Seniors need to expand their minds the
same way
students do. I point this out to prove that seniors and students may seem very different, but at the core, we are all humans and need to fulfill the same basic need for education.
”
-- Seminar in Literature Student
(Computer Science Major; Hale House Book Club participant)Slide9
Service-Learning in Your Courses?
Introduce
the idea
early in the semester – build up to the service project
Use
resources to build
partnerships:
Boston
University Community Service Center
Boston
Cares
–
www.bostoncares.org
www.volunteerboston.org
S
ervice
projects
in
upper-level
courses:
Students choose placements and submit proposals
Specialized
projects
Research
elementSlide10
Brainstorming Service-Learning in Different Disciplines
Possible ideas…
Foreign Languages
– partner with elderly immigrants looking for people to speak their native language
Sciences
– participate in a project with Science Club for Girls
Film
– screen a film and lead a discussion at a homeless shelter Slide11
Why Service-Learning
at Boston University?
“
We remain dedicated to our
founding principles
: that higher education should be accessible to all and that research, scholarship, artistic creation, and professional practice
should be conducted in the service of the wider community—local and international.
”
--
Boston University Mission StatementSlide12
“My service project with the Prison Book Program truly put our study of world literature into perspective … the prisoners were simply looking to become more educated and more aware of themselves and those around them, which is an important part of being human: the drive to learn. . .”
– World Literature Student
(Biochemical Engineering Major; Prison Book Program participant)
~
“
Personal experience truly gives meaning to education because
it connects
you to the subject that seems so far away in the books or on the chalkboards.”
– Seminar in Literature Student
(English Major; Hale House Book Club Participant)
~
Thank you and feel free to contact me:
scordner@bu.edu
“