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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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