{"id":1785,"date":"2016-06-20T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:24:36","slug":"service-learning-project-disability-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/service-learning-project-disability-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Service-Learning Project with Disability Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Positive Approaches to Disability Through Service-Learning<\/em> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/strategic-education-grants\/2015\/educational-innovation-grants\/\">Round 2 Educational Innovation Grant<\/a> funded project led by <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education_social_work\/about\/staff\/profiles\/michelle.bonati.php\">Dr Michelle Bonati<\/a> and implemented through a partnership between the <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education_social_work\/\">Faculty of Education and Social Work<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cds.org.au\/cds-53\">Centre for Disability Studies<\/a> Inclusive Education Program (IEP). It gave Bachelor of Education students the option of completing their <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/courses\/uos\/EDUF3031\">EDUF3031<\/a> fieldwork experience by developing a service-learning project in small groups in collaboration with students in the IEP.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cds.med.usyd.edu.au\/education-a-training\/inclusive-education\">IEP<\/a> provides adults with an intellectual disability an opportunity to participate in The University of Sydney by auditing courses. <a href=\"http:\/\/ro.ecu.edu.au\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1579&amp;context=ajte\">Service-learning<\/a> is a transformative pedagogy in which students engage in service activities that are linked to their learning outcomes through reflection, which has been implemented in teacher preparation programs to develop pre-service <a href=\"http:\/\/tes.sagepub.com\/content\/34\/1\/21.abstract\">teachers&#8217; knowledge of disability<\/a> and improve <a href=\"http:\/\/tes.sagepub.com\/content\/35\/1\/49.abstract\">attitudes toward inclusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each group of students developed a service-learning project that addressed learning outcomes; for example, a student from the IEP participating in <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/courses\/bachelor-of-education-early-childhood\">EDEC 1001<\/a> Early Childhood Settings and Communities collaborated with her group to create a resource book for teaching arts and crafts to preschool children using photo-supported directions. Another group created a <a href=\"http:\/\/healthfit4kidz.weebly.com\/\">website<\/a> on healthy lifestyles for children. A student from the IEP who was auditing <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/courses\/uos\/EDHP1001\">EDHP1001 Physical Education<\/a> demonstrated one of the lessons at a local YMCA. Nine participating groups from Semester 1 created reflection videos to share at a celebration event demonstrating their new knowledge related to their respective courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle Bonati, Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friederike Gadow, Research Fellow, PhD Candidate, Centre for Disability Studies, Sydney Medical School\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positive Approaches to Disability Through Service-Learning is a Round 2 Educational Innovation Grant funded project led by Dr Michelle Bonati and implemented through a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[79,78],"coauthors":[489],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational-excellence","tag-disability-studies","tag-service-learning","post-item","post-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}