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Civic Engagement: Our Role in Community Education and Development
Type of Presentation
Workshop (60-75 minutes)
Session Abstract
Adult Education practitioners have long been called upon to engage in community development by means of education. As issues of undereducation, underemployment, poverty, and violence continue, in urban as much as rural contexts, our role is changing ... or is it? ... or ought it?
Target Audience
AE practitioners; instructors of education (k-12 and AE); parents; students; principals/administrators; program designers
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Identify and analyze the concept of civic engagement in the context of education programs
- Define the role of education in community development. economic sustainability, and public institutions (e.g., K-12 schools)
- Identify and analyze the roles educators have, will, can, and ought to play in community development and community well being
Session Description
The workshops will identify what impact to prevailing concept of civic engagement has on public and private education institutions and the preparation of educators, design of education programs, and collaboration across society's sectors. It also takes a look at the opportunities and possibilities for collaborating across age-specific education programming and examines models of education that are intergenerational, project-based, competence-based, and formal as much as non-formal. The key ideas are grounded in action research conducted with an urban community of primarily African-American and Latino residents.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Dr. Gabriele Strohschen, DePaul University
Work Title
Associate Professor