SERVICE-LEARNING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT SCHOLARSHIP

The SL&CE Units are actively involved in supporting and encouraging university staff to develop their projects into tangible research outputs. Theoretical and philosophical concepts are introduced to students to enhance the scholarship of engagement. Students are encouraged to pursue further studies.

Scholarship in SLCE is built on the following principles as outlined by Boyer (1990):

◦The scholarship of discovery: Closely resembles the notion of research and contributes to the total stock of human knowledge. ◦The scholarship of integration: Underscores need for scholars to give meaning to their discovery by putting it in perspective and interpreting it about other discoveries and forms of knowledge. ◦The scholarship of application: Theory leads to practice and practice leads to theory

Community engagement is viewed apractisedced as a scholarly activitand activity and context for dialogue between theory and practice through reflection. ◦The scholarship of teaching: Within the framework of a scholarship of engagement, the traditional roles of teacher and learner become blurred. What emerges is a learning community including community members, students, academic staff and service providers.

The Department of Science and Technology has launched a framework which promotes the consideration of engaged scholarship for community engagement. Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Units consider this framework as an ideal vehicle to promote a more scholarly approach to community engagement.

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