Learning the Development of Community-Engaged Scholars Through Course-Based Learning: A Student Perspective

Thomas Armitage,Leah Levac

doi:10.15402/esj.2015.1.a09

Abstract

Learning the Development of Community-Engaged Scholars Through Course-Based Learning: A Student Perspective

Highlights

In January 2010, I became the Director of the Canadian Alliance for Community ServiceLearning (CACSL)
From that and follow-up national meetings, CACSL came into being, with the “mothers” of community service-learning (CSL) in Canada—Cheryl Rose (University of Guelph, founding Director of CACSL), Sara Dorow (University of Alberta), and Sandra Patterson (Memorial University)—forming the
Back in 2009, while I was searching for something else, I stumbled upon the CACSL website

Summary

Introduction

In January 2010, I became the Director of the Canadian Alliance for Community ServiceLearning (CACSL). 3 In 2004, CACSL “received a 5-year grant from the McConnell Foundation to provide technical advice and support for universities and communities who [were] developing community service-learning programs and to promote the growth of CSL by educating people about CSL and creating national and regional networks of programs, practitioners, and researchers”

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