{"id":53,"date":"2022-03-15T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/ethicalengagement\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2024-01-16T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:10:46","slug":"learning-modules","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/ethicalengagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical Community Engagement Modules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the last few years, our ideas about the global-local continuum have shifted: what is global is local, and what is local is global. As students and faculty engage with study abroad, study away, and academic civic engagement (ACE) courses and advance the mission of inclusive global engagement through the Smith Center for Global Engagement<\/a>, it is important to consider the ethics of these forms of engagement. The resources on this webpage reflect our commitment to creating reflection opportunities that will support more ethical community-engaged learning experiences, locally and globally. We invite you to explore the modules and reflect on the ethical dimensions and implications of Identity: Self-Knowledge, Social Understanding, and Action;<\/a>\u00a0Reciprocity<\/a>, and Communication<\/a> for building relationships and engaging with local and global communities.<\/p>\n

These modules were developed by faculty members Dana Gross (Psychology), Juliet Patterson (English), and Jason Marsh (Philosophy) through a National Endowment for the Humanities American Rescue Plan Grant in 2022, “Reflecting on How to Create a Just World: Ethical Engagement with Communities through Humanities.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Community engagement, at its core, is exactly what it sounds: intentional interactions between a person or people and a community. The community can be one in which that person belongs to, but is often talked about as engagement across difference.<\/p>\n

Community engagement can run across a spectrum in an academic context. It can look like guest-host relationship in a study abroad\/away program, or it can involve deeper relationships and collaboration between colleges and communities. Community engagement on this latter end of the spectrum, or what St. Olaf calls “Academic Civic Engagement (<\/span>ACE<\/span><\/a>)”, means how students apply their learning within a community context for the common good.\u00a0 Often an ACE experience involves collaboration with a <\/span>community partner<\/b>, but can also focus on the physical place, location, or general public as the community the students are engaging with. Sometimes, ACE can even happen through a study abroad\/away program where students are deeply learning with and alongside their local community–wherever that might be in the world!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\n

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As mentioned above, study abroad\/away programs often engage with the location of the program through a guest-host relationship, which can vary according to cultural traditions and norms. Sometimes, programs will go deeper into engaging with that location’s local community. Depending on the needs identified by the community or partner and the capacities of the students and faculty member, academic civic engagement (ACE) experiences, locally or globally, typically involve one of the following approaches to community engagement:<\/span><\/p>\n

Direct: <\/b>Students engage in in-person interactions with a community partner or members of a community through activities such as tutoring children after school or providing staff support for a community food shelf.
\nExample Course: <\/em>SW 254 Inclusive Practice: Individuals and Families: Story Circle collaboration between Northfield Retirement Community (NRC)<\/a> and St. Olaf students.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Indirect: <\/b>Students work \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d (without in-person community interactions) to address an issue in the community, such as gathering information that the community can use to write grants or inform plans for future action.
\nExample Course:<\/em> ENVST 381 Theo-Ethics of Climate Change<\/a>: Student teams partner with local Christian communities to create Dialogue and Discussion guides<\/a> and resources for the congregations to use when learning about and acting upon climate-related topics (i.e. food choices, renewable energies, climate refugees, environmental racism, etc.).
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Research: <\/b>Students use appropriate, discipline-informed methods, often through <\/span>participatory action research<\/b>, to collaborate and contribute to solutions and social transformation.
\nExample Course: <\/em>ID 242 Democracy and the Arts in Washington, D.C.<\/a> Students generated an arts-centered policy proposal that they delivered to those with the power to make change and in the arts.
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Advocacy: <\/b>Students investigate community-identified social needs and contribute to transformative change through activities such as increasing awareness of a policy issue, obtaining support for a social change initiative, or assisting community members who are engaged in advocacy.
\nExample Course: <\/em>MUSIC 245: Music and Social Justice<\/a> A musical advocacy project in conjunction with the MN Correctional Facility in Shakopee and Northfield-area nonprofits that included the Northfield Arts Guild,<\/a> Clean River Partners<\/a>, and Greenvale Elementary School.<\/a>
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