{"title":"Adapting Experiential Learning in Times of Uncertainty: Challenges, Strategies, and Recommendations Moving Forward","authors":"Eileen O'Connor, Emily Marcogliese, H. Anis, Gaelle Faye, Alison Flynn, Ellis Hayman, Jamel Stambouli","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i4.70793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i4.70793","url":null,"abstract":"Experiential learning offers students the opportunity to gain practical experience with a community or industry partner in their field of study. During the Covid-19 pandemic, many workplaces transitioned from in-person to at-home work environments, and those that did not, often reduced or removed access for non-essential personnel. In this report from the field, multiple viewpoints are shared that emerged from an interdisciplinary panel on experiential learning in the June 2022 Spotlight Series hosted by Teaching and Learning Support Services at the University of Ottawa. These voices “from the field” shed light on the impact of uncertain times on experiential learning and, collectively, focus on identifying challenges, implementing strategies and good practices, and sharing recommendations moving forward. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114991551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Ground Up: Critical Reflections About Co-Constructing A New Non-Profit Sector Undergraduate Certificate","authors":"G. Desantis, Angela N. Tremka","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i4.70789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i4.70789","url":null,"abstract":"Community-university engagement is a growing field and takes many different forms. We explain and reflect critically on a community-university developmental process that we created to design a new non-profit studies undergraduate certificate. A steering group comprising students, non-profit organizations (NPOs), and faculty guided our process. We adopted a community-based, emergent, multi-tactic process that went from testing an idea, to collectively designing and co-constructing the certificate to building momentum to operationalize it, over an 18-month period. Our strategy was based on the convergence of three main bodies of literature—community-engaged scholarship, citizen participation, and naturalistic inquiry—and included seven tactics: community-university dialogues, e-communication, interactive booths in public places, presentations and learning circles, student research projects, student and NPO surveys, and pilot-testing undergraduate courses. The outcomes of our process revealed strong community support for a new certificate, which was then co-constructed and later approved by the University Senate. Today, five years later, we reflect on the ebb and flow of our process, in particular: emergent design challenges, the space-in-between, community/university black boxes, ownership, and facilitation work. This exploration contributes to the knowledge base on co-construction processes. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126967631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minds Alive: Libraries and Archives Now by Patricia Demers and Toni Samek (Eds.). Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 268pp. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0527-1.","authors":"Joel Salt","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i4.70782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i4.70782","url":null,"abstract":"Minds Alive comes at an important time for libraries and archives, which reside in both the world of books and kilometers of fonds and yet also need to adapt to the massive amounts of born-digital content that too require collection. This monograph, which features thirteen chapters split into five sections, also comes at an important time for memory institutions struggling to adjust to the Googlization of information. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115539828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We are the Salmon Family: Inviting Reciprocal and Respectful Pedagogical Encounters With The Land","authors":"Cher Hill, Neva Whintors, Rickey C Bailey","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i4.70802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i4.70802","url":null,"abstract":"Through this action research project, we endeavour to reconfigure pedagogical encounters involving children and the natural world to be more reciprocal and respectful, as well as responsive to the ecological crisis. The goal of our research is to advance understandings of how to educate children to become good relatives to all the beings on these Lands. We are guided by the question: How can we educate children to live like Salmon People (those Indigenous to this place), which is the sacred responsibility of all those residing on the Coast Salish territories? Practices that contributed to shifting relationship between people and the Land and moved our community beyond our human-centric engagement were participatory and embodied. They included acts to care for Salmon and other beings as relatives, as well as experiencing Land as agential and existing independently of human desire. We see our research as a site for what Kari Grain calls “critical hope.”","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123453139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Somewhere in the Prairies","authors":"Agnes Bellegris","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i3.70824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129521048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowing the Past, Facing the Future: Indigenous Education in Canada by Sheila Carr-Stewart","authors":"Jocelyne Vogt","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i3.70748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70748","url":null,"abstract":"A review for the book Knowing the Past, Facing the Future Indigenous Education in Canada. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"134 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133586524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Randy C Battochio, Andrea Dokis, Charlene Restoule, Paige Restoule, Natasha Mayer, Mallory Leduc, Tana Roberts
{"title":"Pathways Taken By One Canadian College to Advance Reconciliation and the Creation of a New Reconciliation Engagement Program with Indigenous Peoples","authors":"Randy C Battochio, Andrea Dokis, Charlene Restoule, Paige Restoule, Natasha Mayer, Mallory Leduc, Tana Roberts","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i3.70403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70403","url":null,"abstract":"Canada-wide efforts are being made to close the gaps that exist in the health and wellness of Indigenous Peoples besieged by a past of cultural genocide, oppression, and exploitation. The purpose of this essay is to provide members of Colleges and Institutes of Canada (CICan) access to a proposed program to engage in reconciliation, with the objective of facilitating Indigenous community engagement through social innovation, training, and applied research. The proposed program is exemplified through the relationship built between Collège Boréal and Dokis First Nation located in northern Ontario. The proposed Reconciliation Engagement Program consists of two streams that encourage CICan members to utilize, among other possible decolonizing methods, the tenets of a Critical Indigenous Methodology to value and foreground local Indigenous voices. The first stream would consist of networking activities to establish relationships, understand Chief and Council’s vision, and seek opportunities for capacity building within an Indigenous community. The second stream would be project-based so that capital costs and human resources can be accessed to complete each project. While proposing the new program is important, the present essay can also be used to exemplify how Canadian colleges and polytechnics can adopt a decolonizing approach during their engagement with Indigenous communities. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117310270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline Pei, Cheryl Poth, Elizabeth Carlson, Vannesa Joly, Danielle Mattson, Nicol Patricny, D. Badry, Richard Mugford, Tracy Mastrangelo, Audrey McFarlane
{"title":"Leveraging Community-University Partnerships to Develop a Strength-Based and Individualized Approach to Humanizing Housing Service Delivery for Individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)","authors":"Jacqueline Pei, Cheryl Poth, Elizabeth Carlson, Vannesa Joly, Danielle Mattson, Nicol Patricny, D. Badry, Richard Mugford, Tracy Mastrangelo, Audrey McFarlane","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i3.70753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70753","url":null,"abstract":"This field report summarizes and advances key learnings for leveraging community–university partnerships addressing housing service gaps for high-risk, marginalized populations with complex needs. We describe our navigation of existing and forged intersections to develop a strength-based and individualized approach to humanizing housing service delivery for individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Our account is framed by four questions: why community and university partners came together to develop a responsive approach through the CanFASD network; who became key stakeholders in the partnership; how our humanizing housing approach is guiding the navigation of complexities inherent in service delivery for individuals with FASD; and what insights about creating intersections are we applying to our community-university partnerships. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114250935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“How are we in the world”: Teaching, Writing and Radical Generosity","authors":"Lynn Caldwell, C. Leung","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i3.70814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70814","url":null,"abstract":"In the following exchange, Lynn Caldwell (member of the Engaged Scholar Journal Advisory Board, professor of theological ethics at St. Andrew’s College and sessional lecturer in Educational Foundations, Women’s and Gender Studies, at the University of Saskatchewan), and Carrianne Leung, Assistant Professor in creative writing, at the University of Guelph and writer of fiction, discuss radical generosity in the context of teaching in the Fine Arts. They remind us of how as engaged scholars, we carefully nurture generosity of thought, relations, and sharing in our work. They take that ethic one step further to show how radical generosity in the classroom rewards us with a well-informed society, and community of educators, activists, and change-makers. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115634658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Defenders of perversion”: Professing Same-Sex Marriage Rights in the Local Press","authors":"Geraint B. Osborne, S. Wilton","doi":"10.15402/esj.v8i3.70358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i3.70358","url":null,"abstract":"This case study provides an important socio-historical snapshot of the same-sex marriage debate in a small city in central Alberta between December 2004 and August 2005. We explore the relationship between professors and small-town newspapers in fostering democratic dialogues on key social issues through an analysis of faculty columns and the responding Letters to the Editor in a local paper. In so doing, this research focuses on two social groups located in a particular social environment, each representing a particular frame: the professors working in the local university who maintained an op-ed column in the local paper and supported a equality frame; and the general public living in Camrose and the surrounding rural area who supported a morality frame. This article contributes to our understanding of scholarly engagement in the town-gown context, the democratic role of the press, and how a particularly contentious social and political issue—same-sex marriage—was experienced and framed by concerned citizens in a small conservative rural city that is also the home to a liberal arts and sciences university campus. ","PeriodicalId":202523,"journal":{"name":"Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128126127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}