Learning Community
Community-Based Teaching
Teaching and Learning for Community Impact
This Spring 2024 learning community is a place where instructors can explore a range of topics, challenges, opportunities, and tangents that arise within the wide world of community-based teaching.
In this setting, we use "community-based teaching" as shorthand for practices such as community-engaged teaching, service-learning, social action teaching, and more. What these practices all have in common is that they bring students, faculty, and community partners together in pursuit of community-defined, mutually beneficial goals.
In practice this may look like:
A social action course that challenges students to identify and work to change policy
A service-learning course that combines classroom and experiential learning through student volunteering and reflection
A community-engaged course in which significant portions of the syllabus are co-planned, or even co-taught, with community partners
Or another form of community-based teaching and learning or engaged scholarship
MEETING DETAILS
There will be five in-person meetings. Meetings will be held from 12:00-1:00 PM in the first floor conference room of Booker House. Lunch will be provided.
Participants may be asked to complete readings related to community-based teaching prior to meetings.
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Wednesday, February 7 | CL Bohannon - Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture Department and the Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UVA School of Architecture Topics: Planning and delivering conference presentations on community-engaged teaching and public service work |
Wednesday, February 21 | Carah Ong Whaley - Academic Program Officer, Center for Politics Topics:
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Wednesday, March 27 | Steve Parks - Professor in the Department of English, Faculty Fellow on the Middle East & South Asian Track in the Global Studies Program Topics:
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Wednesday, April 10 | Speaker TBA Tentative topics:
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Wednesday, April 24 | Michael Palmer - Barbara Fried Director, Center for Teaching Excellence Topics:
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PARTICIPATION
These sessions are open to any UVA colleagues interested in community-based teaching, engaged scholarship, and university-community partnerships, including full-time and part-time faculty (tenured/tenure-track, AGFM), graduate students, postdocs, and staff.
SPONSORS
This learning community is organized with support from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.
Event Details
- When:
- Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
- Where: Booker House, first floor conference room
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs
Questions about the event?
Contact edb2q@virginia.edu.