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<< back to Dialogues October 2003 > Meeting of Community-Based Learning & Religious/Spiritual Life Offices at Sarah Lawrence College Irene King, Director of Community Partnerships at Sarah Lawrence College, hosted a meeting for Venture colleagues working in the community service, community-based learning, and religious and spiritual life areas. The goals of this meeting were twofold: offer Irene advice as she was preparing for the implementation of Sarah Lawrence's new Democratic Arts Program, and begin discussing what we wanted to present at our AAC&U conference presentation. All of us were able to articulate our hopes for the meeting and have a conversation about the larger questions concerning educating students for social responsibility that are most pressing for each of us. questions discussed include
> As we articulate the value of a liberal education for social responsibility, and given the important distinction between experience and knowledge, how do we actually learn from experience?> How can we engage more of our colleagues on our campuses to commit to a shared vision? How do we create a learning community that is an authentic process for articulating an institutionally shared vision? > Is it possible for institutions to sit with the discomfort that comes with self-critique, reflection and the work of educating students for social justice and social change? > How do we translate our individual programmatic or institutional successes [and failures] into a collective body of knowledge that can then be synthesized into something greater? (back to top) |
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