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CELebrate Learning: A podcast about community-engaged learning and teaching

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The Community-Engaged Learning Office has something new in the works.

To diversify our storytelling and provide new ways for students, faculty, and community partners to learn about community-engaged learning (CEL) praxis, UVic’s CEL Office brings you the CELebrate Learning Podcast!

This podcast highlights diverse perspectives and experiences of CEL, aiming to provide useful insight, tools and inspiration to students, faculty and community members alike. Our episodes will cover a range of topics, such as intersectionality, reflection, the spectrum of engagement, and stories of the power of learning in community to help deepen understandings of CEL possibilities.

Tune into our student-led first episode and keep an eye out for the release of our instructor-centered series, coming this fall.

Student-created and led series

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“Being Truly Myself”: Queer and Trans+ Perspectives on CEL

For the first episode of CELebrate Learning, host Garry-Grace Ribeiro (they/them) speaks with three self-identifying queer and trans+ UVic students on topics such as students' roles as educators in community, the connection between community and self, place and belonging, and how our engagement with community leads to social change. 

Listen to episode 1
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"Rooted in Community": Emerging Engineers for Climate Action

In this episode, co-hosts Matilde Cervantes (PhD candidate and project manager contractor at the CEL Office) and April Vannini (CEL Coordinator) invite you to learn from Engineering MA student, Shukooh Goodarzi and Engineering PhD candidate Kelsey Shaw, who are conducting community-engaged research. 

Listen to episode 2

Instructor series: The spectrum of engagement

Episode 1: Inform

For the first faculty-focused episode in the CELebrate Learning, Host and former CEL Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her) leads former UVic professor Nathan Lachowsky (he/him), current UVic faculty member and UNBC postdoctoral research fellow Aki Gormezano (he/him) and their community partner Jennifer Gibson (she/her) from Island Sexual Health, through a conversation about what doing community-engaged teaching looks like, the nitty gritty practicalities, and the value it brings to students, faculty and community partners.

Episode 2: Consult

In this episode, Host and former CEL Office Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her), and CEL Coordinator Rosa McBee (she/her) sit down to talk to guest professor Daniel Hogg (he/him) about his course and how it can include community-engaged learning or not, depending on the student interest and projects. They chat about what community-engaged teaching looks like in his class and touch on student well-being and ethical representation when working with community. 

Episode 3: Involve

Host and former CEL Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her) and current CEL Coordinator Rosa McBee speak with UVic faculty member Erin McGuire (they/them) about what doing community-engaged teaching can look like. They chat about the motivation to teach with CEL as a pedagogy, how to navigate and adapt to changing expectations and timeframes, and share tips for instructors who want to try teaching with community for the first time.

Episode 4: Collaborate

Host and former CEL Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her) speaks with UVic faculty member Nigel Mantou Lou (he/him), PhD canadidate Jess Willows (she/her) and their community partner, Jennifer Lei King (she/her) from the Intercultural Association of Greater Victoria. They discuss what community-engaged teaching looks like for their upper-level psychology course. Plus, they share tips on how to prepare and support students for their relationships with community partners, and how to create reflective activities. 

Episode 5: Co-Create

For the fifth and final faculty-focused episode in the CELebrate Learning Podcast Instructor series, Host and former CEL Manager Rhianna Nagel (she/her), and current CEL Coordinator Rosa McBee (she/her) speak with UVic professor Sarah Marie Wiebe (she/her) about what doing community-engaged teaching looks like for her. Sarah shares her thoughts  relationship-building, navigating logistical surprises, and the joys of this kind of teaching. 

About the podcast

The motivation for this podcast came from the CEL’s office’s desire to answer instructor’s and students' questions about community-engaged learning and teaching, creating an accessible resource while highlighting the expertise in CEL that already exists here at the University of Victoria. We are excited to share with you all.

CELebrate Learning is recorded at the University of Victoria. We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən people on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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