A two-and-a-half day forum on global perspectives on service-learning, community-based research and civic engagement will be presented jointly in Bloemfontein by the University of the Free State and the Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA, from Tuesday 23 March 2010 until Thursday 25 March 2010.
Lecturers and students of the two universities will participate in the forum that will be held at various venues in and around Bloemfontein.
The opening address will be by Prof. Tim Stanton of the Stanford School of Education on the topic: Going global: A comparative analysis of service-learning’s development in the USA and South Africa. He is a pioneer in service-learning in the USA.
Please contact Prof. Mabel Erasmus at 051 4013732 or
erasmusm@ufs.ac.za for more information.