27 June 2019
The first Service-Learning Celebration Gathering was successfully held on 27 Jun, celebrating the fruits and memories of pilot credit-bearing service-learning (S-L) projects completed in Semester 2, 2018-19. The theme of this gathering is “Convergence of Hearts and Minds”, expressing the dynamic collaboration where students, teachers and community partners merged their caring hearts for social service with their clever minds to design and implement useful and meaningful projects.
Prof Y V Hui, Vice-President (Academic and Research), who has been showing great support to our service-learning projects all along, attended our gathering and was impressed by the success of the pilot projects; he also encouraged future development of S-L projects. Dr Felix Tang, Associate Director (Service Learning) of Centre for Teaching and Learning, showed great appreciation of the S-L teachers and students who had put in immense effort in the hard work, and vouched to continue to provide more support and S-L opportunities in coming semesters. He also introduced Queenie and Iris, staff of the Service-Learning Section, who would help teachers in arranging the projects.
The three teachers who led the S-L modules were Dr Karen Yeung and Dr Kevin Zeng from the Department of Marketing, and Ms Maggie Wong from the Department of Social Science. They all had put in great efforts throughout the semester in preparing the logistics and materials, giving guidance and extra coaching to students, and spending extra time to organize and hold S-L services and activities.
Student representatives from all the three S-L modules also attended the gathering, in which Emmy Yip (student of ASI1002 Individual and Society) shared her interesting and rewarding experience from her S-L project. Isabel and Tracy, both social workers from our community partner (Caritas Lai Kok Elderly Center) also visited us in this gathering. They both gave very positive feedback about the projects at their Elderly Center. Other participants included some teachers who are interested in doing future S-L projects.
The Service-Learning Section is looking forward to helping more staff and students enjoy the fruitful S-L experience in the coming year!
Prof Y V Hui awarded certificates of appreciation to S-L students
Prof Y V Hui awarded certificates of appreciation to S-L teachers
Dr Kevin Zeng shared his ideas on S-L projects and his experience of integrating S-L projects in his classes
Ms Maggie Wong shared her S-L module project where students experienced a diversity of direct exposure to the culture of ethnic minority, as well as their living space, food and difficulties in life. Students also learnt to think and design a teaching activity with ethnic minority kids.
Student Emmy Yip of Ms Maggie Wong’s class “ASI1002 Individual and Society” shared her S-L experience
Ms Isabel Chan visited us in this gathering. She expressed that service-learning had provided a practical and good opportunity for students to get to interact with the elderly and to use their academic skills to help the elderly center to evaluate and improve the center’s services.
Group photo
