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Dec

Staff Symposium on Service-Learning: ‘Building an Engaged Service-Learning Community’

Staff

Dr. Carol Ma, Professor Daniel Shek

18 Dec 2020

9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Online Via Zoom

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Abstract

The Staff Symposium on Service-Learning is one of the initiatives of the UGC-funded project Cross-institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions (CoP-SLHE). We envisage the event would be an opportunity to bring together experts to present the results and findings from their action research projects on a series of diverse service-learning courses in various fields. The symposium will consist of a keynote session in the morning and two parallel sessions in the afternoon. Through the symposium, we hope to cultivate a sharing and collaborative culture among colleagues, especially those who are engaging in Service-Learning, so that we could work together to promote quality teaching and learning in Service-Learning.

Dr. Carol Ma from the Singapore University of Social Sciences, who is the former Associate Director of the Office of Service-Learning at Lingnan University, will be delivering a keynote speech on ‘Current and Future Trend of Service-Learning Development in the World’ in the symposium.

 

Professor Daniel Shek, the Associate Vice President (Undergraduate Programme) and the Li & Fung Professor in Service Leadership Education of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has also been invited to the symposium. He will give a talk on ‘Service Learning in Hong Kong: Questions and Reflections.’

  • To disseminate and share the resources that are produced through the UGC project “Cross-institutional Capacity Building for Service-Learning in Hong Kong Higher Education Institutions” 
  • To create a potential cross-institutional network of faculty members, students and, even, community partners with a common interest in Service-Learning To provide a platform for the participants to share their Service-Learning experience 
  • To facilitate and motivate collaboration between the institutions and disciplines