Civic Engagement in Learning and Teaching

Prof Brendan Stone

The Engaged Curriculum Achieve More

Civic Engagement in Learning and Teaching

Civic Engagement

Goddard, J., ‘Reinventing the Civic University’

“... our citizenship has an inescapable global dimension...”

“...civic universities should be strongly connected to people and to place.”

Parekh, B., ‘Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship’

The Priority Themes 1. Focus on inspiring our students and broadening their understanding of academic

study within its wider intellectual context. 2. The creation of communities of learning. 3. The creation of a significant personal research experience for all students on all

programmes. 4. The creation of an employability strategy for the University, to be adapted by

each Faculty to suit disciplinary contexts, with an identifiable skills spine running through every programme.

5. The creation of opportunities for all students to learn and develop personally through experiences outside the university, in particular reflecting the University’s mission as a civic institution.

6. The development of cultural agility, flexibility, and the ability of our graduates to compete strongly in the global labour market.

7. The provision of consistent and effective academic and personal support for student learning and development.

8. Extending the Sheffield Graduate concept. 9. The maintenance and enhancement of the university’s high reputation for the

quality of the student experience and for the university’s academic standards. 10. The effective and efficient use of available resources.

Broaden understanding within wider intellectual

context.

Communities of learning

Personal research experience

Employability

Learn & develop outside the university

Cultural agility & flexibility

Extending Sheffield Graduate

The Engaged Curriculum The Engaged University (Health/Wellbeing)

…combines academic rigour and disciplinary knowledge with opportunities for students to learn with and from external partners, 'real-world' challenges, and experiences outside the University. … a focus on engaging with, learning from, and addressing issues of local, national, or international public concern.

…partnership working on challenges to wellbeing in a wide range of areas … building major new projects to understand and intervene in creative cross-agency projects …combining academic research and practitioner expertise

Building connections

…combines academic rigour and disciplinary knowledge with opportunities for students to learn with and from external partners, 'real-world' challenges, and experiences outside the University. … a focus on engaging with, learning from, and addressing issues of local, national, or international public concern.

The Engaged Curriculum

25-30 sustainable learning & teaching projects supported

Exemplar interdisciplinary & cross-faculty projects developed

Influencing & contributing to Achieve More

Working with Enterprise, Public Engagement, Widening Participation, Volunteering

Developing principles for TUOS ‘engagement’

The Engaged Curriculum

The Engaged Curriculum

Examples include: - Oral Histories in Dentistry Outreach - Computer Science Ambassadors - Supporting isolated adults via the Six Book Challenge - Improving knowledge of dementia research across disciplines - Black Firsts in Criminal History - Mapping social accountability in Medicine, Dentistry and Health - The Literacy Exchange and Achievement Project - Musical engagement in population groups with special needs - Living Library Legacy Project - Shakespeare in schools - Engaging people with communication impairments - Urban Design Methodologies and Tools - Archive Making: Material Stories in Refugee Communities - Improving knowledge of dementia research across disciplines - Developing partnerships with people-with-dementia in dementia education - Deep-mapping the Seven Hills of Sheffield - Voices of the Bottle Ovens: Oral history in Stoke-on-Trent

Civic Engagement

Goddard, J., ‘Reinventing the Civic University’

“... our citizenship has an inescapable global dimension...”

“...civic universities should be strongly connected to people and to place.”

Parekh, B., ‘Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship’

Civic Engagement