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Real world learning through civic engagement: Principles, pedagogies and practices

Mason O'Connor, Kristine; McEwen, Lindsey

Authors

Kristine Mason O'Connor

Lindsey McEwen Lindsey.Mcewen@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Environmental Management



Contributors

D.A Morley
Editor

M.G Jamil
Editor

Abstract

Civic engagement offers students transformational opportunities to experience ‘real world learning’. This chapter identifies key principles of critical community-based learning that emerge from appraisal of different histories and paradigms of learning through civic engagement. It presents changing drivers to community-based learning from local to global, including newer imperatives of learning for sustainability, citizenship education and building resilience. It explores pedagogies that form a nexus around community-based learning – building on understandings of different forms of knowledge, through transformative learning to learning for citizenship. It concludes by reflecting on the means by which radical real world learning through civic engagement can advance and thrive.

Online Publication Date Nov 6, 2020
Publication Date Jan 1, 2021
Deposit Date Jan 5, 2021
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 63-89
Book Title Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education. Real World Learning and Innovation across the Curriculum.
ISBN 9783030469504
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46951-1_4
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5587014
Publisher URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-46951-1_4
Additional Information Mason O’Connor, K. and McEwen, L. J. (2020) Real World Learning Through Civic Engagement: Principles, Pedagogies And Practices. In Dawn A. Morely and Md Golam Jamil (eds.) Applied Pedagogies in Higher Education. Real World Learning and Innovation across the Curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.