so reflection is where the bulk of the
learning happens in this type of course
the reason I say that is because if
you're if you add an organization and
you're just a volunteer you go you do
the tasks and then you go back home but
as a community engaged learning student
you're urged to do to take what you see
and what you hear and what you're
actually doing and reflect on that what
does that mean for yourself as an
advocate as a student what does it mean
for the field and what does it mean for
nonprofit work and also as a community
engaged learning student you're kind of
in a unique position because you have
one foot in at the organization and then
you have one foot in the university so
reflection allows you to bridge that gap
and like I said before it's where the
learning happens and it's where you'll
find value in this experience reflection
is based on students experience in their
placements so it is absolutely key to
students learning students are evaluated
on their capacity to make meaning and
deepen their learning through reflection
and what they experiencing in their
placements and an and also in the
seminars where students are learning
from one another's ideas and narrated
experience I think the value would be
that it really kind of gives you a
concerted space to explicitly kind of
sit down and really consider choices
you're making the policeman how
interactions are playing out maybe
unconscious biases that you might have
and not be aware of I think that in
taking the time to reflect you really
have the opportunity to connect the
academic to what's going on in your
placement site and then to really think
through how it is you're moving through
space and really identify the learning
and growth that's happening for you that
we don't always do in kind of the hustle
and bustle of the everyday