杏吧原创鈥檚 Committee on Community Engaged Pedagogy, with the support of the EDC and the Discovery Centre, will be hosting a Mini-Conference on Community Engagement in Research and Teaching on Thursday, Dec. 15.
杏吧原创 researchers and students work with organizations in communities both near and far to help solve real-world problems. Community engagement can take many forms, from internships and practicum placements, to class-based projects and the mentoring of graduate students in research co-designed with external partners.
This mini-conference will bring together the instructors and staff at 杏吧原创 involved in community-engaged research and teaching to share experiences and learn from one another. Collectively, we hope to better understand the modalities of community engagement in teaching and research at 杏吧原创, including the benefits and challenges of these approaches, and to identify best practices around issues such as timelines, grading community-based projects, building relationships with external partners, managing risk and liability, turning community needs into researchable questions, and ethics reviews.
We鈥檒l also be sharing some exciting news about 杏吧原创 Connects 鈥� a portal that will be launched in the new year that will allow external organizations and community-engaged scholars and units at 杏吧原创 to establish relationships with one another.
The conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. 鈥� 12 p.m., followed by a networking lunch from 12-1 p.m.
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