Inclusive Dialogue and Mutual Responsibility in The Citizenship Project
Presentation Format
Interactive Workshop
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Presentation Description
The Citizenship Project: Commitment to Community is part of the first-year experience, which incorporates high-impact educational practices to provide students with an integrated learning environment centered on citizenship. The Citizenship Project is a collaborative effort involving Academic Affairs and Student Life which provides the opportunity for all Lynn students, faculty, and staff to participate.
In The Citizenship Project, first-year students take a course as part of the Dialogues of Learning core curriculum in the January Term. That course focuses on a civic issue, problem or topic, and provides students the opportunity to engage in experiential learning opportunities and community service work with local, community-based partners. Thematic areas for the courses include homelessness, environmental sustainability and urban renewal. The university works with local partner organizations to enhance students’ understanding of civic engagement. These themes and partners were selected with sense of place in mind. Students address ongoing challenges facing our South Florida community, which have both local and global dimensions.
Within this framework, The Citizenship Project promotes further integration between first-year students’ academic and co-curricular learning. The Citizenship Project creates a common, required educational experience for all first-year students that links the thematic components of the Dialogues of Learning core curriculum, the Dialogues of Self and Society, the Dialogues of Innovation, and the Dialogues of Justice and Civic Life. The learning paradigm for The Citizenship Project is based upon the pedagogical structure successfully implemented in The Dialogues of Learning and incorporates dialogue, common readings, and assignments to contribute to students’ cumulative education.
As a member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Initiative, The Citizenship Project is also part of our larger commitment to promoting civic learning as a necessary component of liberal education. The Citizenship Project prepares students for active citizenship through engaged and guided learning with an emphasis on personal and social responsibility.
Participant Outcomes:
- Discuss ideas to design and implement a common, dialogue-based experience involving active citizenship or to further enhance a civic engagement program already on your campus.
- Learn about a common first-year experience in active citizenship at Lynn University. Courses will be highlighted and first-hand accounts will be provided from participating Lynn University first-year students, Peer Mentors, faculty and staff as well as community partner organizations.
- Strategies to encourage and further dialogue in the classroom and on-site with community partner organizations relative to active citizenship will be highlighted. Methods to further dialogue through in-class discussion and writing opportunities will be discussed with a sample of student work will be provided to demonstrate community-engaged scholarship.
- Methods to ensure mutual responsibility between the university and participating community partner organizations and recipients to ensure inclusivity will be identified.
- Engage in discussion on program strategies involving active citizenship on your campuses and on incorporating lessons learned.
Location
Room - 1220B
Start Date
4-15-2016 8:15 AM
End Date
4-15-2016 9:30 AM
Recommended Citation
Krift, Anna L. Ph.D., "Inclusive Dialogue and Mutual Responsibility in The Citizenship Project" (2016). Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning 2016. 28.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gss/2016/2016/28
Inclusive Dialogue and Mutual Responsibility in The Citizenship Project
Room - 1220B
The Citizenship Project: Commitment to Community is part of the first-year experience, which incorporates high-impact educational practices to provide students with an integrated learning environment centered on citizenship. The Citizenship Project is a collaborative effort involving Academic Affairs and Student Life which provides the opportunity for all Lynn students, faculty, and staff to participate.
In The Citizenship Project, first-year students take a course as part of the Dialogues of Learning core curriculum in the January Term. That course focuses on a civic issue, problem or topic, and provides students the opportunity to engage in experiential learning opportunities and community service work with local, community-based partners. Thematic areas for the courses include homelessness, environmental sustainability and urban renewal. The university works with local partner organizations to enhance students’ understanding of civic engagement. These themes and partners were selected with sense of place in mind. Students address ongoing challenges facing our South Florida community, which have both local and global dimensions.
Within this framework, The Citizenship Project promotes further integration between first-year students’ academic and co-curricular learning. The Citizenship Project creates a common, required educational experience for all first-year students that links the thematic components of the Dialogues of Learning core curriculum, the Dialogues of Self and Society, the Dialogues of Innovation, and the Dialogues of Justice and Civic Life. The learning paradigm for The Citizenship Project is based upon the pedagogical structure successfully implemented in The Dialogues of Learning and incorporates dialogue, common readings, and assignments to contribute to students’ cumulative education.
As a member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Initiative, The Citizenship Project is also part of our larger commitment to promoting civic learning as a necessary component of liberal education. The Citizenship Project prepares students for active citizenship through engaged and guided learning with an emphasis on personal and social responsibility.
Participant Outcomes:
- Discuss ideas to design and implement a common, dialogue-based experience involving active citizenship or to further enhance a civic engagement program already on your campus.
- Learn about a common first-year experience in active citizenship at Lynn University. Courses will be highlighted and first-hand accounts will be provided from participating Lynn University first-year students, Peer Mentors, faculty and staff as well as community partner organizations.
- Strategies to encourage and further dialogue in the classroom and on-site with community partner organizations relative to active citizenship will be highlighted. Methods to further dialogue through in-class discussion and writing opportunities will be discussed with a sample of student work will be provided to demonstrate community-engaged scholarship.
- Methods to ensure mutual responsibility between the university and participating community partner organizations and recipients to ensure inclusivity will be identified.
- Engage in discussion on program strategies involving active citizenship on your campuses and on incorporating lessons learned.
Program Abstract
This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about a common first-year experience in active citizenship at Lynn University. Strategies to encourage and further dialogue in the classroom and on-site with community partner organizations relative to active citizenship will be highlighted. Methods to ensure mutual responsibility between the university and participating community partner organizations and recipients to ensure inclusivity will be identified and discussed.