Welcome Back

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Welcome Back
Barbara Armstrong Programme Director, Business
Programmes Birmingham Business School
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Service Learning IS

• meshing service tasks to learning opportunities
  in a structured and reciprocal way
• a learning exchange, bringing value to both
  community and student.
• letting students put into practice what they
  have learnt in the classroom
• while providing structured time for reflecting on
  their experience
• and developing a sense of caring for others

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Service Learning IS NOT

• an add on
• A quick fix way of earning credits to graduate by
  performing community service
• and it is certainly not a form of punishment.

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Beyond the ClockService Learning At Birmingham
University

• The Quaker legacy passion for social reform
• Active Community Fund
• 1000 volunteers
• Old Joe can be seen for miles around
• The original ivory tower?

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Beyond the Clockthe path the University of
Birmingham travels

• UB is here
• Critical mass building
  sustained institutionalisation
• Furcos continuum (2002)

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Beyond the Clock 5 pilot projects

• Business
• Dentistry
• Health Sciences
• the Institute of Applied Social Studies
• the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies/the
  Institute of Local Government Studies.

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Beyond the Clock 5 pilot projects

• developing a Birmingham Model for community
  based learning
• best fitted to the University and community in
  which we live and work
• in keeping with the Universitys reputation as a
  place of scholarship

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Beyond the ClockThe Birmingham Business School
project

• Embedded in the skills agenda
• An in programme work experience module
• Working for not for profit organisations
• Development of 2007 pilot project
• Develops the schools mission for community
  involvement

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A model for Birmingham?

• We are not America!
• The Learning Exchange
• U21 survey
• Please give us feedback on our paper

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• We welcome any input and debate