GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES in Child and Youth Care practice
Timeline
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January 8, 2024Experience start
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April 9, 2024Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Community engagement EducationSkills
presentations social psychology learning strategies holistic health teachingCommunity Engaged Learning – No cost to community partners
Community Engaged Learning at MacEwan University is a project-based teaching-learning strategy that connects classroom theory to challenges experienced in the “real world” by our Community Partners.
Partnership Opportunity
Is your organization experiencing challenges that 3rd-year Child and Youth Care students can support? Using an international global perspective lens, students will examine how global policies, migration patterns, cross-cultural practices and therapies, holistic care, and the role of Child and Youth Care practitioners in various contexts impacts and implications.
Learners
How this works
Student teams will choose a community partner (CP) at the beginning of term. With the help of the CP, the team
will explore an agreed upon challenge through the lens of a social psychology methods.
Early Dec Experiential Learning Facilitator and course professor will discuss the potential projects to ensure a good fit with the learning outcomes and the mandate of the partnering organization.
Early Jan CPs join class (virtually) to pitch their challenges with Q&A with students (Jan 11 at 11 a.m.)
Mid Jan Student teams select a project and partners are informed of a match.
Late March Teams make final presentations to CP virtually
Your Commitment
Commitment to the visits (virtual or in-person), as indicated above is a must.
Projects are tied to a student’s overall course mark and must be completed within a tight time period and managed around varying student schedules. We ask our partners to ensure timely sharing and transfer of information and firm commitment to scheduled meetings to support project success.
What you get
You will receive a presentation and report
Interested? Organizations interested in participating can complete this Form: https://forms.gle/NHh6yLR1yyJd8pmJ7
(or cut and paste it into your browser) and register your request online. Please note that there are a limited number of spaces available.
Project timeline
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January 8, 2024Experience start
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April 9, 2024Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
Example Project ideas:
- Trauma experience that some refuges come with and how to support them
- Support international communities with language and culture barriers
- Obtaining, understanding and exploring the implications of language across culture, geographies and field of practice
- Assistance in navigating social barriers to help meet basic needs.
- Childcare and parenting through the Canadian lens.
- Child and youth groups/mentorship.
- Assistance with job search and interview preparedness.
- Fostering community connections.
- Social programming navigation.
Timeline
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January 8, 2024Experience start
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April 9, 2024Experience end