| Status | 已發表Published |
| Enhancing University Students’ Community Engagement and Social Awareness through Residential College Whole-Person Development Programs | |
| Wan, S. | |
| 2015-02-01 | |
| Source Publication | Post-Secondary Education for Sustainability in Asia: Curricula, Case Studies and Community-Building
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| Publication Place | Singapore |
| Abstract | The new residential college (RC) system of the University of Macau is aimed at integrating students’ in-class and out-of-class experiences so as to foster their whole-person development. RC students take part in various types of programs and activities that not only enrich their university life, but also help foster their generic skills and civic awareness. In order to enhance students’ global citizenship and local community engagement, the RC under study partnered with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to organize a “Community Walk” series in the first semester of 2014/15. This series comprised two parts: The first was a community walk, including simulation tasks, and visits to various disadvantaged groups of people (e.g. elderly, single parent family, migrant workers and homeless people) in Macau. The second was inviting these disadvantaged groups in the local community to the University and the RC for a half-day visit. This ‘Community Walk’ series was attempted to allow students to explore the meaning and causes of poverty, and discuss the relationship between poverty and every one of us. It was also attempted to raise students’ social and service awareness, as they would visit, learn real stories from and interact with residents and families of disadvantaged groups in Macau which has a widening wealth disparity despite rapidly growing economy. This paper details how the RC and the NGOs came together to coordinate this program. It explains how the RC is attempting to integrate such voluntary, non-credit bearing activities of co-curricular nature into the RC system, particularly as an extension of students’ formal learning experiences. Key lessons about partnerships with NGOs which are vital to whole-person development programs of RCs are also discussed. |
| Keyword | community engagement civic awareness residential college co-curricular non-governmental organizations |
| Language | 英語English |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 15924 |
| Document Type | Conference paper |
| Collection | STANLEY HO EAST ASIA COLLEGE |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Wan, S.. Enhancing University Students’ Community Engagement and Social Awareness through Residential College Whole-Person Development Programs[C], Singapore, 2015. |
| APA | Wan, S..(2015). Enhancing University Students’ Community Engagement and Social Awareness through Residential College Whole-Person Development Programs. Post-Secondary Education for Sustainability in Asia: Curricula, Case Studies and Community-Building. |
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