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Community engagement

07 June 2024

Community engagement gives you direct examples of how your work can bring about positive change. It involves connecting with the public to improve some part of their community. It's also a good way to understand how diverse society is. Learn more.

HOW TO APPLY

Much like a workplace setting, working within the community will show you how to co-operate with different processes, resources and values. This is a useful exercise in learning ways of communicating with others.

The community partners can be local, national or international and therefore integrate well with the other graduate attributes.

The social change wheel gives some examples of rich ways that community engagement can be passed on to our students.

Social Change Wheel

Engaged with the Community Kaupapa

Orientation

Engagement: Gaining knowledge and understanding of a community by interacting with a community


Self

Reflection: Gaining knowledge and understanding of a community through reflection on one’s experience with that community.


Self and local

Application: Understanding and articulating how the content and/or skills of the subject/programme enhances the community.


Local

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