Community-Based & Community-Engaged Learning Pedagogy
The Lindy Center for Civic Engagement supports faculty in creating and advocating for Community-Based and Community-Engaged learning pedagogy. This pedagogy unites classroom learning, engagement opportunities, group dialogue, and guided introspection to make students more informed, more proximate, and more reflective about pressing issues that shape society. Community-engaged learning facilitates opportunities to further relationships between students, faculty and local/global community partners to pursue a public good and to—whether onsite or online—strengthen their collective capacity to address real problems that will generate a more just world in their careers and lives.
Community-engaged courses and initiatives are those where:
- Student learning takes place in some form beyond the traditional classroom, whether it be through dialogue with guest participants, case studies relevant to community issues, or other forms of experiential or applied learning
- Students critically reflect on their individual and shared experiences to engage with course topics
- Students create a learning community within and beyond the classroom based on mutual trust, co-creation of knowledge, and a sense of collective ownership
- Students analyze issues of justice and conditions of critical concern to local and global communities
Community-engaged learning creates spaces where students can experience needed connection to one another and to their communities as they participate in meaningful civic activity regardless of their social or physical location.
The Lindy Center for Civic Engagement supports faculty in creating and advocating for Community-Based and Community-Engaged learning pedagogy. This pedagogy unites classroom learning, engagement opportunities, group dialogue, and guided introspection to make students more informed, more proximate, and more reflective about pressing issues that shape society. Community-engaged learning facilitates opportunities to further relationships between students, faculty and local/global community partners to pursue a public good and to—whether onsite or online—strengthen their collective capacity to address real problems that will generate a more just world in their careers and lives.
Community-engaged courses and initiatives are those where:
- Student learning takes place in some form beyond the traditional classroom, whether it be through dialogue with guest participants, case studies relevant to community issues, or other forms of experiential or applied learning
- Students critically reflect on their individual and shared experiences to engage with course topics
- Students create a learning community within and beyond the classroom based on mutual trust, co-creation of knowledge, and a sense of collective ownership
- Students analyze issues of justice and conditions of critical concern to local and global communities
Community-engaged learning creates spaces where students can experience needed connection to one another and to their communities as they participate in meaningful civic activity regardless of their social or physical location.
Learn more about current and past course offerings.
Watch a recording of our virtual Community-Engaged Learning Open House from July 2020, where we describe the fundamentals of the pedagogy and some methods that instructors have been using in remote classrooms.
Read a write-up about Community-Based and -Engaged Learning from the Teaching & Learning Center's Teaching Tips blog.
This diagram is a visual representation of the elements of CB/EL pedagogy with some explanation on each:
Watch a recording of our virtual Community-Engaged Learning Open House from July 2020, where we describe the fundamentals of the pedagogy and some methods that instructors have been using in remote classrooms.
Read a write-up about Community-Based and -Engaged Learning from the Teaching & Learning Center's Teaching Tips blog.
This diagram is a visual representation of the elements of CB/EL pedagogy with some explanation on each:
At Drexel, most courses fall into one or more of the following categories: