This project involves creating an eBook that will illustrate the impact that experiential education opportunities have on learners, navigating (professional) conduct and relationships through a socio-legal lens, and examining the tensions that arise in human rights law. Consequently, success indicators will be found in their ability to “legal issue spot” or grapple with how the OHRC gets activated when human rights violations occur, and hone the skills (i.e. empathy, civility, effective communication, and critical thinking and emotional intelligence) necessary to respond appropriately.
The eBook will be accessible online and can be viewed by the York university community and public who are interested. The content can be reused by different users as educational tools and can also be embedded into a wide array of teaching learning contexts from undergraduate to graduate programs to staff and administrators professional training and development, as well as use at faculty development. The content can be combined with other teaching tools such as faculty workshops on experiential education at the Teaching Commons and expanding the Learning Commons on ways students can become more attractive to future employers through experiential education and shared by learners and educators within a variety of relevant organization and institutional websites.
FUNDED BY:
Academic Innovation Fund, Open Access Teaching and Learning Category IV – York University, 2020