Ch. 9: Facilitating Learner Development Through Civic Engagement EXPs Flashcards
Civic engagement
-Individual or collective actions to identify & address issues of public concern
-Provides opportunity for students to learn about diversity & good citizenship
Examples of Civic engagement
Incl volunteering, org involvement, & advocacy
Four basic types of Civic Engagement
1) Civic Action
2) Civic Commitment or Duty
3) Civic Skills
4) Social Cohesion
- Civic Action (Type of Civic Engagement)
Participating in service learning (SL) activities or volunteering to help improve a community
Example of Civic Action
Participating in activity that promotes racial equality
- Civic Commitment or Duty (Type of Civic Engagement)
Working actively to make “pos contributions to society”
- Civic Skills (Type of Civic Engagement)
Active involvement in civil society, politics, democratic processes
- Social Cohesion
Building & sustaining “sense of reciprocity, trust, & bonding to others”
Example of Social Cohesion
Develop long-term relationships thru SNA
Service Learning (SL)
-Integrates learning activities w/ voluntary, community-based activities that develop civic responsibility & engagement (to address human & community needs)
-Form of experiential edu
-Incl structured reflection & debriefing to facilitate building connections b/t EXP & curricular content
Benefits of using SL as learning activity:
-Can be used to enhance cultural competence to work w/ diverse pop’s for learners in variety of settings
-Can change attitudes towards homeless ppl
What is goal of SL?
Fundamentally infl long-term actions of students (not to practice skills)
Four elements of global health (prereq content for study abroad trips)
1) Epidemiology
2) Environ health
3) Community resources
4) Social welfare
1) Epidemiology (Element of global health)
Causality, risk, rates of occurrence of health & illness
2) Environ health
Environ factors affecting health (i.e. food, water)
