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 Photos for S'11 Holyoke Bound: "You Better Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself" workshop scene and emcee Carlos "REC" McBride opens Holyoke Bound in Holyoke High's gym |
What Do Students Need to Know? From the Holyoke Bound Planning Committee: A note about Holyoke Bound learning ojectives & focus! Holyoke Bound aims to provide a basic, central orientation to the city of Holyoke for Pioneer Valley college students who are considering or already working in Holyoke. The hope is that through this basic orientation, decentralized strain put on community organization to provide a similar training to student-workers can be lightened and accountability can be fostered between campuses and community organizations. Furthermore, in part, because college students have been working in Holyoke for a series of decades, Holyoke Bound also aims to provide a space for critical reflection and discussion about the limitations as well as benefits of doing community-based work in Holyoke. We feel that contextualization of this general campus-community history is important because it can promote awareness of the temporality of the work we do in the city. Thus, the learning objectives of Holyoke Bound are two-fold. Emphasis is split between: 1) providing basic, Holyoke-specific information (such as “A History of Holyoke” and the “Holyoke Today & Tomorrow” panel) and 2) creating a space for more general conversations focusing on campus-->community engagement. This includes but is not limited to discussion(s) of privilege, i.e. resource access, educational capital, race & class based privilege (whether structural, institutional or interpersonal), and temporal (semester system). As a planning committee, we recognize the dynamic and diverse places Holyoke Bound participants come from. Perceived effectiveness of the orientation varies from person to person and the question of what aspects/topics to emphasis in this basic orientation is an on-going conversation between the planning committee, Holyoke community, as well as the Five College Committee for Community Based Learning. If this conversation may be of interest to you, please consider getting involved in the Holyoke Bound planning process by emailing holyokebound@gmail.com or cjc06@hampshire.edu.
It is important that all students involved in community-based partnerships in Holyoke have some basic knowledge of the history of the Holyoke community. In understanding the sociopolitical context in which Holyoke citizens live, students will be better equipped to enter the community effectively and responsibly as learners, researchers, volunteers, interns and citizens. Of the following power point presentations two were prepared by panelists presenting to the Five College Holyoke Bound About Holyoke Bound orientations in 2008-2009 and one by a student at Amherst College in 2008. They are intended to help orient and prepare students for entry into the Holyoke community. This model will provide students with an understanding of Holyoke we hope will contextualize their experiences and enable more fruitful and productive community-based learning. Holyoke Bound Fall 2009 Power Point Holyoke Bound Spring 2009 Power Point Holyoke Bound 2008 Power Point More Information download file > | |