[xmca] Re: Featuring EDUC259 on Japanese Public TV

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Hi Eugene--

Nice picture of your students and the community center and the activities.
One aspect of the program seemed misleading to me. Perhaps you could
clarify. It appeared that the students were not, in the commonly understood
use of that term, volunteers. They appeared to be students who were engaged
in this practice as a part of a college course for which they got credit and
perhaps a grade?

As you know, I am very much in favor of this kind of course at the college
level for many reasons, but I distinguish it from volunteers from the local
community, for example, who come and help out at the center, who are not
paid, get no institutionalized credits, and see it as a part of "giving back
to the community."

Could you clarify? At this particular moment, momentum for *courses* linked
not only to teacher preparation, but for a variety of reasons, is building
at
UCSD and I would like to be able to show this video to administrators, but
fear of mis-speaking about the basis of student participation and how
volunteer work becomes a part of a professor's lectures.

mike

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Eugene Matusov <ematusov@udel.edu> wrote:

>  Dear everybody—
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> On January 7th, 2010, NHK Japanese TV broadcasted a report about our Fall
> 2009 EDUC259 course “Diversity in community contexts”. I placed the report
> on
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> http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/EDUC259.09F-10_NHK_Japan.wmv. Emily is our
> star! You can see our class and West End kids (see Darnell!)
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> Take care and congratulation,
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> Eugene
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