On this website, you will find an exploration of various Community Service-Learning (CSL) projects completed at the University of Calgary and the impact these and other projects have on participants.
Created by students at the University of Calgary in a Communications Studies CSL course from January to April 2010, this website features Partnership. Teamwork. Collaboration. These are the central features that you will find at the core of Community Service-Learning (CSL). The CSL experience is built on a partnership between instructors, students and community partners through which these participants collaborate on projects that commuicate course information, develop students' skills and provide valuable services to the community. This website is designed to break through the academic bubble, just as CSL itself does. Through CSL, students and instructors go beyond the academic community and community partners are welcomed into it. Together, all participants in CSL bring a piece of the puzzle to the CSL experience, building collaboratively a new sphere of influence that can encompass all participants. As the picture illustrates, the experience is complete because it is shared. Therefore, each participant perspective must be understood and explored and you may explore these various perspectives here as you read about previous projects and the particular benefits and challenges that came out of these projects for students, as well as instructors and community partners. We encourage you to explore this website, understand the CSL experience, and hopefully invest your own time and interests in a project you may be inspired to as you read about breaking the academic bubble. Author: Heather Laursen References Lumaxart. (2007, December, 25). Linkware.jpg. [image]. Retrieved March 24, 2010 from Wikimedia Commons website at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linkware.jpg. Creative Commons License. |
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