The Potential of Community Service Learning
6pm-7pm
Want to hear how to incorporate Service Learning into the curriculum? Come hear Prof. Ann Abbott, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talk about situating learning within language communities and especially on the potential of Spanish community service learning.
Hilliard Lecture sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages, the Latino Research Center, the Spanish Club, and the Office for Service Learning and Community Engagement
Thursday, December 4, 2014 to 7:00 pm
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Civic and Service Engagement, Academic Lectures and Seminars
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College of Liberal Arts, Latino Research Center, Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
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Dr. Abbott is a national expert on community service learning. She is author of the forthcoming book "Community Service Learning in Foreign Language Instruction" (Prentice Hall) and of the only Spanish community service learning textbook published to date, "Comunideades" (Prentice Hall, 2010). She maintains a blog at http://spanishandillinois.blogspot.com
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As more language programs turn to community service learning, they have an opportunity t both ground students’ learning within local contexts and forge partnerships that address community- identified needs. While good community service learning planning models do exist to help educators build sustainable programs, they must be adapted to the specificities of teaching in a second language and working with language communities other than English. In this talk, Dr. Abbott will share a variety of models for Spanish community service learning, outline what the research shows about its effects, and confront the challenges it presents. In times of declining enrollments, public debate about the humanities, and questions about the connections of a liberal arts education to job prospects, language departments can view community service learning as one important element in their responses to the evolving role of languages in higher education.
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Casilde A Isabelli November 28, 2014
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