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Community Service-Learning in Graduate Planning Education

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Community service-learning (CSL) has gained popularity over the past decades in universities across North America. Although planning programs tend to involve more graduate-level community-engaged learning than other professional disciplines, learning outcomes have not been sufficiently examined. Based on a review of existing literature and analysis from four years of a CSL course at the University of Toronto’s Department of Geography and Planning, this article describes the implications of CSL for graduate planning education. We argue that CSL in graduate planning programs has a series of unique characteristics and thus requires distinctive pedagogical approaches.

Source: Journal of Planning Education and Research

DOI: 10.1177/0739456x18754318

Authors: Charles Z. Levkoe, Abigail Friendly, Amrita Daniere

Institutions: Lakehead University, Utrecht University, University of Toronto

Language: English

Topic: Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funders: Lakehead University, Canada Research Chairs