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Forging Partnerships In Health Care: Process And Measuring Benefits, Cobie Rudd
Forging Partnerships In Health Care: Process And Measuring Benefits, Cobie Rudd
EDU-COM International Conference
Universally, there is concern that much academic learning has dealt mainly in theory, removing knowledge from context with a resultant lack of practical experience. Here, the catalyst for strengthening university-community engagement, emanated from a desire to foster greater propensity within students to make connections between their academic courses and responsibility toward the community and people in need, and thus develop enhanced skills in social interaction, teamwork and effectiveness. This paper explores a variety of models of university-community engagement that aim to achieve and model good practice in policy making and planning around healthcare education and service development. Ways of integrating …
Initiating Community Engagement For Enhancing Preservice Teacher Education, Peter Hudson, Sue Hudson
Initiating Community Engagement For Enhancing Preservice Teacher Education, Peter Hudson, Sue Hudson
EDU-COM International Conference
Facilitating community engagement in education is promoted and emphasised in university policies and strategic plans. How can a university facilitate innovations to develop collaborative partnerships with its community? This paper presents leadership processes for initiating community engagement with an Australian university and highlights examples of innovations in Science Education for Sustainable Living (SESL) with preservice teachers‘ reflections on their teaching practices. Data collection included observations of practice, interviews, minutes of meetings, and written correspondence with a wide range of participants (i.e., senior QUT staff, lecturers, preservice teachers, principals, school executives and teachers, and other community members). A four-step process for …