Associate Professor Ohio State University College of Social Work
This study explores how integrating community-engaged, place-based, and experiential pedagogies in social work education fosters collaborative learning. By partnering with a nonprofit urban farm, it examines how these methods address food justice, environmental issues, and social inequities, creating meaningful learning experiences for students and strengthening community partnerships.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
Examine how integrated experiential, place-based and community-based pedagogies can foster participatory and collaboratory learning experiences with community partners to co-create knowledge and address real-time environmental, social, and economic challenges.
Describe effective experiential, place-based, and community-engaged activities utilized in environmental justice and community courses that can support critical thinking, reflection, and individual and collective conscientization in/with communities.
Engage in critical reflection about alignment of community social work teaching strategies with embedded principles and practices of environmental justice as they related to participatory processes, interdependence, and power redistribution.
