Module 3: McMaster’s Principles of Community Engagement
In partnership with our local community, McMaster developed a set of principles during its community engagement strategic planning process. These principles are important as they shape McMaster’s engagement with local and global communities and ensure that there is a consistent approach at the foundation of this engagement. These principles include:
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McMaster’s 6 Principles of Community Engagement:
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- Relationships
- Reciprocity
- Equity
- Continuity
- Openness to Learning
- Commitment to Act
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This module will consider the six principles of Community Engagement in more detail, providing scenarios and examples to clarify the concepts.
Module 3 Learning Objectives
By the end of Module 3, learners should be able to:
- Identify the six principles of community-engaged learning and differentiate them from other, more problematic approaches to charity work and volunteering
- Analyze how the principles of community-engaged learning intersect and function as a whole
- Envision how they will carry out the principles of community-engaged learning in their own service-learning experiences
- Identify which components of community engagement come into play in presented scenarios
- Analyze how well a particular community engagement project aligns with McMaster’s views on community-engaged learning
- Create their own scenarios that make use of their newfound understanding and practical knowledge of the principle
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In the following chapters, we detail the different principles and sketch out how best to live up to them.
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