Answer to Question #323860 in English for Harfa

Question

1. How does this course and your project relate to what you would like to study at Old Westbury, your future career, and your activities and concerns as an engaged community member? How might this project contribute to your future as a college student and as a professional?

2. What strengths and experiences do you bring to your Community Learning project? What challenges might you face?

3. Whose story are you going to tell? What is the story about? What do you want your audience to gain from reading the story you choose to share? How might your story connect with civic engagement?

4. How does storytelling provide a voice for marginalized groups, who are often underrepresented or misrepresented? How do stories help develop empathy, create connection, and strengthen civic engagement?

Answer 1

1.Community engagement pedagogies, often called “service learning,” are ones that combine learning goals and community service in ways that can enhance both student growth and the common good. In the words of the National Service Learning Clearinghouse, it is “a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.” 

2.Be ambitious and outward-looking—use the local environment and community as hands-on learning resources and encourage parents, community organizations and businesses to bring their issues to the school. Take students out into local wild places and community venues, and invite community members into the school.There are many challenges in today's education system. However, one of the biggest challenges is always the outdated education model. The education model is not designed to meet the needs of modern students. The old curriculum that never links with the practical world never let students progress forward.

3.Be ambitious and outward-looking—use the local environment and community as hands-on learning resources and encourage parents, community organizations and businesses to bring their issues to the school. Take students out into local wild places and community venues, and invite community members into the school.

4.This aspect of storytelling – presenting a different perspective of the world – is important when it comes to connecting with each other. It gives us an opportunity to learn from another person’s experience and it can shape, strengthen or challenge our opinions and values. When a story catches our attention and engages us, we are more likely to absorb the message and meaning within it than if the same message was presented simply in facts and figures.