Connected Knowing: Can community-based learning transform students from collectors to integrators of experiences and knowledge?

For 2012-13 the Service-Learning Program has chosen to focus our work around the theme "integrative learning and connected knowing." We believe that this theme is an important one at this particular time in undergraduate education here at Duke.A Statement on Integrative Learning prepared by the AACU & Carnegie Foundation argues that "fostering students' abilities to integrate learning - across courses, over time, and between campus and community life - is one of the most important goals and challenges of higher education." We invite you to join us in a conversation about how community-based teaching and learning experiences facilitate students¿ integrated learning; how cognitive dissonance borne of engaged experiences develops students' thinking; and if engaged learning can facilitate Parker Palmer's challenge of "thinking ourselves and the world together."Lunch will be served. RSVPs optional but appreciated: http://doodle.com/nfx3xpk7v8sbma56