Engaging & Transforming Communities

Enduring Understanding:

The Learning Community…

• seeks community wisdom to shape our interdisciplinary learning, teaching, and service.

• encourages creating value out of challenge (e.g. transforming poison to medicine).

• nurtures pleasure in learning while respecting the need for social critique.

• fosters a democratic learning environment that honors student voices, experiences, and interests.

• supports intergenerational learning, teaching, and service.

• supports intercultural learning, teaching, and service.

• transforms personal and public communities through learning, teaching, and service.

• promotes resiliency in communities through learning, teaching, and service.

Essential Questions:

• How does community wisdom shape our interdisciplinary learning, teaching, and service?

• Why is it important to create value out of challenge?

• How is pleasure in learning, while respecting the need for social critique, present in the learning and teaching design?

• How can a democratic learning environment be designed to honor student voices, experiences, and interests?

• How can learning, teaching, and service be designed to support intergenerational and intercultural knowledge and experiences?

• How will learning, teaching, and service transform personal and public communities?

• To what extent does learning, teaching, and service promote resiliency in communities?

• To what extent does the study in question have value beyond the classroom and how will students take this learning and own it beyond the walls of LJA?