Availabilities:
Not currently available in 2020
Unit description
Explores community engagement in higher education through the lens of community engaged scholarship. Community engaged scholarship refers to a mutually beneficial partnership with community through pedagogical or research activities. Principles to guide good community engagement practice will be identified through literature and case studies. Students will develop a plan to apply good practice principles to their work in either community based research or community engaged pedagogy in their own disciplinary context.
Unit content
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demonstrate an understanding of the scholarship and theoretical perspectives of community engagement as applied to higher education | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 2 | Identify and apply principles of good practice in community engaged pedagogy and community based research | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 3 | Articulate and demonstrate a community engaged scholarship approach in teaching and learning or research to their own disciplinary context/s | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 4 | Critically reflect on their own community engaged practice and scholarship | Intellectual rigour | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
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