Importance Of Civic Engagement
Final blog post
Criterion A: Disciplinary Grounding/Knowledge
During this educating process I’ve learnt that civic engagement is so much more important than I might have thought. I also learned that civic engagement can be applied in way more than one environment. Before I thought that community was just your neighbor hood, and with dance, golf, and all the other activities our family is involved with we don’t really have much time to go to community meetings or fairs. This week I took some of my learning from week without halls and realized that a community is anywhere. Although this may have already been known by most I now realize that I am involved in civic engagement every day when I go to school and try to participate in activities and …show more content…
At the beginning of the project if you had asked me what I thought about those things I would have told you that Civic Engagement doesn’t matter and art is just art nothing more and I honestly thought that the entire week was going to be a total waste of my time (in the most respectful way possible to all the great teachers.) On Monday I was astonished by how much I had learnt and the knowledge of the importance of art and civic engagement and how it plays a major role in bring together a community. After this week I can say that not only was it better than regular school I’ve learnt and gained so much knowledge. My thinking on TTP also changed, on the second day when we visited TTP, and I didn’t even know what the project was, I thought “Ya, it’s grea t they bag birds! But how does this have anything to do with school and why should I care. Then I found out the purpose of the park and the legitimate troubles and issues the park needed help solving and I was ready to dive in. My thinking on the solution never really shifted our group was always totally on board with the festival idea (while maintaining an open mind.) We did and on and made tweaks and changes every day. For example at first the festival was just going to include an art workshop, flash mob, and a play (the obvious basics) then we decided to add on a mural that community would create together to strengthen the sense of family and
Criterion A: Disciplinary Grounding/Knowledge
During this educating process I’ve learnt that civic engagement is so much more important than I might have thought. I also learned that civic engagement can be applied in way more than one environment. Before I thought that community was just your neighbor hood, and with dance, golf, and all the other activities our family is involved with we don’t really have much time to go to community meetings or fairs. This week I took some of my learning from week without halls and realized that a community is anywhere. Although this may have already been known by most I now realize that I am involved in civic engagement every day when I go to school and try to participate in activities and …show more content…
At the beginning of the project if you had asked me what I thought about those things I would have told you that Civic Engagement doesn’t matter and art is just art nothing more and I honestly thought that the entire week was going to be a total waste of my time (in the most respectful way possible to all the great teachers.) On Monday I was astonished by how much I had learnt and the knowledge of the importance of art and civic engagement and how it plays a major role in bring together a community. After this week I can say that not only was it better than regular school I’ve learnt and gained so much knowledge. My thinking on TTP also changed, on the second day when we visited TTP, and I didn’t even know what the project was, I thought “Ya, it’s grea t they bag birds! But how does this have anything to do with school and why should I care. Then I found out the purpose of the park and the legitimate troubles and issues the park needed help solving and I was ready to dive in. My thinking on the solution never really shifted our group was always totally on board with the festival idea (while maintaining an open mind.) We did and on and made tweaks and changes every day. For example at first the festival was just going to include an art workshop, flash mob, and a play (the obvious basics) then we decided to add on a mural that community would create together to strengthen the sense of family and