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<p><font color="#33711E"><strong>Day 1 – Session 2C: Towards Participatory and Sustainable Development? Service Learning in the University</strong></font></p>

Queen's Park 5, 16:00 - 17:30

Chair: Chan Lean Heng, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Panellists:

  • Ethel Agnes, SEAMEO, Philippines
  • Leonora Angeles, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Lim Pek Hong, International Medical University, Malaysia
  • Vallai Panich, University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand.

Service learning has been recognized as a powerful experiential, reflective learning pedagogy which encourages students to make connections between classroom learning and real-life activities in the wider community. Such authentic service learning experiences have enabled students to identify important issues in the real world and have generated emotional responses in students while challenging their values and ideas. Service learning thereby supports the social, emotional and cognitive learning and development of students, as well as contributing to community development. Most existing service learning programmes have their own specific objectives and have not been structured with participatory development (PD) or sustainable development (SD) principles as part of their framework. This panel will examine how the issues, concerns, values and principles of PD and SD can be incorporated into service learning programmes as a strategy to re-orientate service learning as education for sustainable development (ESD). In particular, this panel will examine the role of service learning as a strategy in fostering education for participatory and sustainable development in higher education institutions.

 

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