Prof. pk Langshaw, Design and Computation Arts
This event is free.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning
The Centre for Teaching and Learning (514) 848-2424 ext 2495
Faubourg Building 1250 Guy Room 620
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Empowering learners to transition from the role of student to confident worker requires the opportunity to operationalize newly acquired skills in a real-world setting. To facilitate the process of organizing, running and evaluating a leisure-based program, under the guise of experiential learning, student groups work with community partners to provide a one-time leisure-based experience for a client group. The relationship between student and community partner, when managed correctly, creates community-based experiential learning (CBEL) opportunities.
CBEL means that students (and teacher) leave the comfort of the university classroom and work face-to-face with community partners. These learning opportunities mostly result in a win-win. For example, using the Revised Bloom Taxonomy as a pedagogical approach, CBEL moves student learning beyond the base level called the knowledge stage, up the scale to understandings, application, analysis and creativity. Many students report that their CBEL reinforced their passion to work in the profession. As the professor (facilitator of CBEL) I am bias, but believe that the learning opportunity simultaneously transmits to the students what it means to be a professional in their chosen career.
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