LibGuides UFV: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: 7: Collaborate with Families and the Local Community

Practitioner Reflections

To develop this competency, explore activities and resources that help you answer the following questions:

Do I consider myself a member of the community in which my students live? How can I actively develop relationships with community partners?
Which groups are most connected to my institution? Whose voices are typically heard, valued, and acknowledged?
How do I reduce participation barriers for community members, elders, and organizations?

Adapted from:

Embracing Elders and Knowledge Keepers: Beyond the welcome
Embracing Elders and Knowledge Keepers: Beyond the Welcome is to support UFV faculty, staff, and students who are interested in engaging Elders and Knowledge Keepers in their classrooms and or special events related to courses that occur both on and off the four UFV campus locations. This is a “living” guide that will continue to be updated based on wisdom from Stó:lō Elders. [From Author]
In their words: What Undergraduate Sociology students say about community-engaged learning
The rise of experiential learning initiatives, like community-engaged or service learning courses, attempts to give students real-world experiences to connect our classrooms with our communities. [From Author (p.198)]
How to be a good host for guest speakers in your class
Being a good host begins before a guest enters the room. I have developed a set of best practices for hosting guests, informed by my experiences of inviting scholars, writers and community organizers into my university classroom and being asked to lecture for free as a graduate student. At the heart of these practices is valuing guests’ labour and building reciprocal relationships. [From Author]

The Community Mapping Toolkit
Community Mapping (sometimes called asset mapping) is all about involving residents in identifying the assets of their neighbourhood, looking at opportunities and creating a picture of what it is like to live there. [From Website]