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I think first and foremost the one

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particular benefit is that students get

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just what they're learning in the

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classroom in a community setting so

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attached to real-world challenges

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real-world opportunities students get to

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see what they're doing in the classroom

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come alive in and through their work

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with with different organizations or

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offices secondly I think there's some

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job skills attached to right so there's

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real benefits to going out and trying

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out new things that you're learning in

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classroom learning how particular

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organizations communicate with the world

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learning what an office environment

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looks and feels like I think really has

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a positive relationship and then third I

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would say networking getting to know

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what's happening in a community can lead

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to all kinds of different things we've

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had students stay on in their placements

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for full-time jobs afterwards or

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discover what they want to study in

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graduate school so I think that ability

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to do some networking outside of the

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classroom is really quite valuable I

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think the benefit of community engaged

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learning over like regular placements is

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really the idea of creating shared value

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between three key partners so the

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student the University and the community

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and it really isn't finding that shared

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value and reciprocity that the community

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really sees a benefit in terms of moving

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an important issue forward or an

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important piece of work forward the

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student has a great experience hopefully

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and the University deepens that

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relationship with the community I think

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for myself

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you've t could feel like you're really

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large and sometimes isolating space and

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in taking part in community engaged

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learning courses I had the opportunity

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probably for the first time in my

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studies to feel a part of a bigger

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picture to sort of see how my academic

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knowledge could really be applied to

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real-world scenarios I also got to see I

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think in reality though I was a social

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science student for the first time that

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community knowledge is really important

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and compliments really nicely with

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academic knowledge but doesn't always

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align directly with it so do you have

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the opportunity to see myself as being

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kind of a whole person beyond just a

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student identity

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was really something that was especially

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valuable I'd say for me I engage

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students in

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a community-based participatory research

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because I really want them to develop an

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appreciation for different approaches to

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community engagement different

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approaches and methods to community

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engaged research but perhaps even more

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importantly I want the students to

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develop an understanding and also an

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appreciation of the principles the

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values and importantly the ethics of

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community-based participatory research

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so those are really the benefits that I

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see on the student side but I think when

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engaging in community engaged learning

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we have to be really mindful of the

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benefits for the community and the

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community partners that we work with and

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in the context of a community-based

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research course I would emphasize that

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we're always trying to respond to a need

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for research identified by the community

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partner so we're not coming in imposing

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a research question on the community so

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in anticipation or in preparation for

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the course I always try to work with

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community partners and really find out

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what would be most meaningful to them

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and then throughout the duration of the

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course we really emphasize collaborative

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knowledge production and hopefully

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building some capacity in the community

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that goes beyond the duration of a

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semester so those I would see as the

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main benefits of of my teaching practice

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in community well I find that it's

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actually a reciprocal relationship

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between yourself as a student and the

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community partner where you're placed at

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so the benefit for the student being you

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get a more kind of intimate experience

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with what it's like working in the

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social purpose sector something you

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wouldn't necessarily have gotten just as

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a volunteer but not as much agency as

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you have as an employee so it's a very

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interesting kind of in-between stage

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where you get enough of a taste of what

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a career in this field could look like

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and as someone who might be approaching

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this course with an interest in that

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field that's one of the benefits of the

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course on the other hand you have the

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community partner who then gets another

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eager set of hands and also some outside

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input into maybe their programs or

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whatever the nature of your contract is

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so it's a very interesting benefit on

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both sides there I see the benefits of

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virtually community engaged

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anything in my mind if we want the

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society that we're going to have in the

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future we need community engaged

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citizens so the idea of starting that as

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a practice in university is just a

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wonderful way of grounding people in

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understanding the sort of complex

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interplay of relationships in

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communities and how you can contribute

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to that to improve wellbeing for

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everyone