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The Context and Content of
Community Integrated Teaching
and Learning
Community Integrated Teaching and Learning
CONTEXTUALIZING CITL
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Classical theories of education by Plato and Aristotle as intended to produce good persons; to act on knowledge in the pursuit of good ends
Classical liberal thinkers like Locke and Kant argued for character education, Mill for capable and sensible civic participation, and Rosseau’s sympathetic and civil interaction with other members of the society
These philosophers have envisioned university graduates prepared to contribute to alleviation of human suffering, insurance of human rights and development of a productive society
(Speck and Hoppe, 2004)
YET
Academy implicated in the fracturing of the
community
“during the past fifty years, American Universities have come
to be dominated by powerful interrelated values: materialism,
individualism and competitiveness(Astin, 1993)”
A GLIMPSE OF THE
COMMUNITY FRACTURING
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
American culture has lost a sense of community;
socially relevant virtues have fallen apart Robert
Putnam: Bowling Alone
Evidence of the loss of social capital; there is
alienation
Speck and Hoppe, 2004
IMAGE OF HIGHER
EDUCATION
Educational institutions are expected to play a
significant role in social development and nation
building BUT……esoteric research, failure to
promote moral character, and civic consciousness,
etc
HIGHER EDUCATION: SEEN AS
AN “IVORY TOWER”
For producing abstract research unconnected to real
life problems; for being indifferent to societal and
community problems and for producing poorly
educated students who are not only unprepared for
work life but who also have no souls. (Thomas,2000)
REMEDY FOR A
FRACTURED COMMUNITY
HEIs are challenged to respond beyond its traditional
function of providing knowledge through teaching and
research.
The emerging role is to contribute to public service
with the community through collaborative discovery,
learning, engagement and application.
Create a classroom that would rebuild the fracture: link
theory in classroom with student participation in community
affairs (Speck and Hoppe, 2004)
HENCE,
THE FOUNDATIONS OF HEI’S CE
SUCH AS CITL ARE:
HEI’s commitment HEI’s fundamental goal:
To nation building: Student learning and
Social Responsibility development
CITL
TWO MAJOR STRATEGIES OF
REBUILDING
Renew historic commitment of HEI’s to nation building
and in addressing society’s problems : Scholarship of
Engagement (Boyer 1990, 1993)
Effectiveness in achieving its most fundamental goal which is
student learning and development: Following Dewey
(Pedagocic Creed), Freire(Critical Pedagogy), Kolb
(Jacoby and Associates)
PURSUE
SCHOLARSHIP OF
ENGAGEMENT
The triumvirate of teaching , research and service has ruled …
yet service remains to be less rewarded and respected (Jay, 2012)
The challenge is to broaden the scope of scholarship and pursue
scholarship of engagement (Boyer, 1990).
SE: bridging the gap between community/societal needs and
academic resources (Boyer, 1996)
THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS
OF CITL Dewey (1859-1952)- “to prepare him for the future life means to
give him command of himself; it means to train him that he will have the full and ready use of all this capacities.”
making sense of knowledge or what has been learned through (community) experience
meaning making facilitated by reflective problem solving
Dewey’s Progressive education involves CE that grapples with
real social problems, requiring students to come up with
solutions and applying ideas studied in the classroom
THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF
CITL
Freire:
Balance between theory and practice=praxis (informed action)
Conscientization (using education as a means of consciously
shaping the person and the society
Action-reflection (interconnected when one is sacrificed the other
suffers) ; -clear course of future action is possible when there is
authentic reflection renewed reflection
KOLB’S INFLUENCE TO CITL
• Experiential Learning Model (ELM) 4 stage cyclical process
AND THE P R A C T I C A L M O D E E N R I C H I N G H E ’ S
C I V I C R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y A N D S T U D E N T D E V E L O P M E N T
Connect learning and community via academic
curriculum
Align the perspectives of the academe to the nature of
community work and student’s learning methodology as
they realize school’s mission to contribute to social
transformation.
Deprogram instructors and students away (partly) from
traditional classroom roles, relationships, and norms
HOW DO WE OPERATIONALIZE THE
COMMITMENT?
PERSPECTIVE-SETTING
Curriculum Integration
1. Community based sources of knowledge
included in the curricular content
2. Learning thru community interactive and experiential
process
3. Student learning outcomes that reflect the
impact integrated and experiential learning process
CITL
Conceptualizing CITL
Student development
2.Community integration, identification of relevant issue, reflection on the
issue
1. Expose students to fundamental knowledge,
skills and values relevant to the discipline
3. Application and action in partnership with the
community
CITL
Conceptualizing CITL
Community Impact 2.Community needs
matched with scholarly resources
1. Community Profiling
3. Contributed in promoting poverty
alleviation, democratization process, etc
CITL
Conceptualizing CITL
PRINCIPLES
Appropriateness of the pedagogy to the desired learning outcomes; student enhancement
Meaningfulness of the student activity to the community; community is involved
Evidence of link of the partnership and scholarship
PRINCIPLES
That the community are also sources and "creators of knowledge"
Learning also happens in the actual interaction, exposure and exchange with the community
Individual and collective reflection and action
C O M M U N I T Y I N T E G R A T E D T E A C H I N G A N D L E A R N I N G
Community
Students Faculty
Context & Concepts
Types &
Models
Reflection & Way
Forward
Implementing Mechanism
END
A growing number of educators are recognizing the
power of the community for civic learning, drawing upon
the educational philosophies like Dewey. These
educators have found that thinking more broadly about
where and how learning takes place is equally as
important as what is learned. It also unleashes a vast set
of resources for learning and allows education to be more
connected to democratic revitalization.
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