Service Learning COP

Purpose

Sharing and mutual support for service learning offices from different Institutes of Higher Learning

Peer exchange, learning and collaboration among partners

Collectively understanding information and resources useful for service learning practitioners 

Background and Rationale

Felt that service learning was inward looking within own institutions and realised there is opportunity for collaboration

Specific Objectives and Goals

1. Create a clearinghouse of service learning resources
2. Articulate and develop principles / code / guide for good practice

Other objectives previously raised, for discussion:

• capacity building for service learning practitioners
• project on history and landscape of service learning in Singapore?
• explore student collaborations across institutions
• Role that government can play in service learning (e.g. a national agenda) and the kinds of resources that can be brought in if there is. Currently, MOE, MCCY and MSF are the three key Ministries most relevant to the field of service learning. (suggested from TP)

Members

1. Members List & Contact Info

Ngee Ann Polytechnic - Office of Service Learning

https://www.np.edu.sg/Pages/servicelearning.aspx

Republic Polytechnic -

https://www.rp.edu.sg/shl/beyond-the-classroom/service-learning

Temasek Polytechnic - Centre for Character and Leadership Education

https://www.tp.edu.sg/centres/centre-for-character-and-leadership-education

Office started in April 2018

NTU - Local Community Engagement Office

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lceo/Pages/default.aspx

Position	Name	Email	Tel
Executive Director	Dr Toh Kian Lam	kltoh@ntu.edu.sg	+65 6592 2517
Deputy Director	Alvin Lee	alvinlee@ntu.edu.sg	+65 6904 1118
Senior Assistant Manager	Shi Jin Chen, Iona	iona.shi@ntu.edu.sg	+65 6904 1108

NUS Office of Student Affairs

http://www.nus.edu.sg/osa/

NUS Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Centre

https://ctpclc.nus.edu.sg/

SIT - Student Life

https://www.singaporetech.edu.sg/studentlife/

SUSS Service-Learning

http://www.suss.edu.sg/CET/Pages/Service-Learning.aspx

SMU Centre for Social Responsibility

https://c4sr.smu.edu.sg/

2. Observers and Associates

NYC Youth Corp

https://www.youthcorps.sg/en

Institute of Policy Studies

https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ips

Justin Lee - justin.lee@nus.edu.sg

Andrew Lim - andrew.lim@nus.edu.sg

Meeting Agenda for 2019

How Will the COP be Run

• Participants will submit agenda items, and rotating Facilitators will host as well as help structure each meeting based on the agenda.
• Issues selected for discussion will be spread out over 4 main meetings (one per quarter?).

Possible Issues for Discussion

-how to communicate what one another do?

-tension between community needs and student needs.

-community engagement vs service learning

-move towards skills-based, instead of more manual or just engagement work.

-implications also then is connecting with faculty for more faculty-led, skills relevant work. (if student led, just simpler modes of engagement).

-sustainability and long term partnerships, given student cohorts move.

-credit bearing, compulsory or voluntary?

-training and foundations for students so they know how to engage and work with community. -how to curate proper training for students. And problems with scale, especially if compulsory and student body is large (many have moved online)

-Administrative function and place of the service learning office. Under student life, student affairs, or specialised office etc.

Issues for Deliberation and Decision

To ARTICULATE AND CLARIFY: use a form to help them articulate vision, mission, roles, guiding principles, objectives, roles ?

To decide what info, how to share info that is useful for one another

1st COP Meeting

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2nd COP Meeting

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3rd COP Meeting

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2nd COP Meeting

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3rd COP Meeting

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