Location

MD203, Paul Cardinal Shen Medical Building, Fu Jen University

Start Date

28-5-2015 4:30 PM

End Date

28-5-2015 5:40 PM

Description

The Office of Service-Learning (OSL) at Lingnan University is taking the initiative to organize different non-credit bearing community based projects. These projects help to build a strong relationship among community agencies and the higher education through various events/activities which involve both local and international context. This concept aims to building a real-life experiential classroom for students and community members to work closely together and create an effective learning platform for students' based on experiential learning.

In this paper, The 4 highlighted projects focus on Intergenerational Partnership (include LingnanU Elder Academy (EA), Sustainable Development Fund (SDF) Project: Cultural Sustainable Project Through a Group of Cultural Service-Learning Ambassadors, Think-Act-Contribute (TAC) and Age-friendly City) will become the show cases to demonstrate the effective way to involve community agencies in collaborating with the tertiary institutions. A model of Community-University Partnership are applied and used as an analysis framework in Hong Kong.

By making a community into a real-life laboratory, it allows our stakeholders (students, community members and faculty members) to work closely together in three important elements (research, service, teaching and learning). To create a sustainable collaboration, here are some steps:
1) Issue identification, identify community vision and goal setting
2) Community capacity building & leadership development
3) Consensus building
4) Multi-stakeholder partnership and leveraging of resources
5) Constructive engagement by relevant stakeholders
6) Implementation
7) Evaluation, lessons and replication of best practices

Recommended Citation

Ooi, N. (2015, May). Intergenerational partnership community projects: A case study in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 5th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Love Journey: Community Engagement through Service-Learning, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.

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May 28th, 4:30 PM May 28th, 5:40 PM

Intergenerational partnership community projects : a case study in Hong Kong

MD203, Paul Cardinal Shen Medical Building, Fu Jen University

The Office of Service-Learning (OSL) at Lingnan University is taking the initiative to organize different non-credit bearing community based projects. These projects help to build a strong relationship among community agencies and the higher education through various events/activities which involve both local and international context. This concept aims to building a real-life experiential classroom for students and community members to work closely together and create an effective learning platform for students' based on experiential learning.

In this paper, The 4 highlighted projects focus on Intergenerational Partnership (include LingnanU Elder Academy (EA), Sustainable Development Fund (SDF) Project: Cultural Sustainable Project Through a Group of Cultural Service-Learning Ambassadors, Think-Act-Contribute (TAC) and Age-friendly City) will become the show cases to demonstrate the effective way to involve community agencies in collaborating with the tertiary institutions. A model of Community-University Partnership are applied and used as an analysis framework in Hong Kong.

By making a community into a real-life laboratory, it allows our stakeholders (students, community members and faculty members) to work closely together in three important elements (research, service, teaching and learning). To create a sustainable collaboration, here are some steps:
1) Issue identification, identify community vision and goal setting
2) Community capacity building & leadership development
3) Consensus building
4) Multi-stakeholder partnership and leveraging of resources
5) Constructive engagement by relevant stakeholders
6) Implementation
7) Evaluation, lessons and replication of best practices