NCKU hosts experience-sharing workshop on service learning
Tainan, Taiwan, Mar. 28, 2013
The National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Office of Student Affairs has organized an experience-sharing workshop on service learning, Mar. 23, where students and teaching staff took the opportunity to share their service learning experience which they had gained both locally and abroad.
The organizers of the workshop have invited institutes which NCKU has collaborated with as well as local social service agencies in Tainan to observe and share their experience in service-learning.
Dr. Chii-Jen Lin, NCKU President for the Office of Student Affairs, said that NCKU opens the service-learning course for 10 years already. This is why this year, the course has been named “Gleaner” (拾穗shí suì in Chinese), with its Chinese meaning sounding the same as the Chinese word, “十歲” (10 years old).
“Service learning involves action; it also represents a way to realize social responsibility,” stressed Dr. Lin. “At the same time, service learning is also an act of reflection.”
Kevin Chen, founder of ELIV International Service, was invited to give a keynote speech on What Can Undergraduates Do for Service-learning?
There were also discussions on topics including “Special Research on Serving Learning” led by the NCKU Institute of Education Associate Professor Dr. Nai-Wen Guo and “Psychopathology” led by the NCKU Institute of Behavioural Medicine Professor Dr. Huei-Chen Ko.
Attendees from other universities included representatives of Department of Management Information Systems at National Chiayi University (NCYU), who provided information on service-learning of volunteers, as well as representatives from Tainan National University of Arts (TNUA), who presented a service-learning documentary on Lanyu Island.
Apart from sharing local service-learning experience, there was also a special sharing session focusing on international service-learning, such as the Yunnan Service Learning Project jointly organized by both NCKU and China’s Nankai University during the winter break, the NCKU-Singapore elderly care international service-learning project, as well as National Cheng Chi University (NCCU) International Volunteer Association’s service-learning project focusing on the education of Tibetan kids.
In his keynote speech, Chen shared his own personal experience and revealed that he’d like to not only travel around the world by himself, but also live with the people at a particular place, helping them to change their lives.
In the past two years, Chen has visited many Asian countries, including Cambodia, Myanmar, Inner Mongolia, India, where he helped the local people build houses, maintain their land, educate their children. Chen is determined to make volunteer service as his lifetime career.
I-Hsing Chang, a student from NCKU Department of Nursing, has experienced service learning at the nursing homes for the elderly and children’s hospital. She said that her service-learning experience has not only enabled her to fully apply her professional skills to help others, it has also helped her understand the importance of being a medical staff in helping the needy.
Presentations and speeches by students and teaching staff during the workshop have shown to have applied the skills and reflection, enhancing the depth of the course and learning process as well as to practice social responsibility.
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The National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Office of Student Affairs has organized an experience-sharing workshop on service learning, Mar. 23, where students and teaching staff took the opportunity to share their service learning experience which they had gained both locally and abroad.
The organizers of the workshop have invited institutes which NCKU has collaborated with as well as local social service agencies in Tainan to observe and share their experience in service-learning.
Dr. Chii-Jen Lin, NCKU President for the Office of Student Affairs, said that NCKU opens the service-learning course for 10 years already. This is why this year, the course has been named “Gleaner” (拾穗shí suì in Chinese), with its Chinese meaning sounding the same as the Chinese word, “十歲” (10 years old).
“Service learning involves action; it also represents a way to realize social responsibility,” stressed Dr. Lin. “At the same time, service learning is also an act of reflection.”
Kevin Chen, founder of ELIV International Service, was invited to give a keynote speech on What Can Undergraduates Do for Service-learning?
There were also discussions on topics including “Special Research on Serving Learning” led by the NCKU Institute of Education Associate Professor Dr. Nai-Wen Guo and “Psychopathology” led by the NCKU Institute of Behavioural Medicine Professor Dr. Huei-Chen Ko.
Attendees from other universities included representatives of Department of Management Information Systems at National Chiayi University (NCYU), who provided information on service-learning of volunteers, as well as representatives from Tainan National University of Arts (TNUA), who presented a service-learning documentary on Lanyu Island.
Apart from sharing local service-learning experience, there was also a special sharing session focusing on international service-learning, such as the Yunnan Service Learning Project jointly organized by both NCKU and China’s Nankai University during the winter break, the NCKU-Singapore elderly care international service-learning project, as well as National Cheng Chi University (NCCU) International Volunteer Association’s service-learning project focusing on the education of Tibetan kids.
In his keynote speech, Chen shared his own personal experience and revealed that he’d like to not only travel around the world by himself, but also live with the people at a particular place, helping them to change their lives.
In the past two years, Chen has visited many Asian countries, including Cambodia, Myanmar, Inner Mongolia, India, where he helped the local people build houses, maintain their land, educate their children. Chen is determined to make volunteer service as his lifetime career.
I-Hsing Chang, a student from NCKU Department of Nursing, has experienced service learning at the nursing homes for the elderly and children’s hospital. She said that her service-learning experience has not only enabled her to fully apply her professional skills to help others, it has also helped her understand the importance of being a medical staff in helping the needy.
Presentations and speeches by students and teaching staff during the workshop have shown to have applied the skills and reflection, enhancing the depth of the course and learning process as well as to practice social responsibility.
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