Campus Digest

Education Studies scholars obtain Quality Education Fund for Intergenerational Learning Community project

03 Oct 2016

Professor Atara Sivan (right) and Professor Vicky Tam (left) say that their successful QEF application signifies recognition from the government of the intergenerational learning community model. Professor Atara Sivan (right) and Professor Vicky Tam (left) say that their successful QEF application signifies recognition from the government of the intergenerational learning community model.
Professor Atara Sivan (right) and Professor Vicky Tam (left) say that their successful QEF application signifies recognition from the government of the intergenerational learning community model.

 

Professor Atara Sivan, Head of the Department of Education Studies and Associate Head Professor Vicky Tam received a HK$1.9 million grant for their Quality Education Fund (QEF) project entitled: “Promoting Positive Youth Development through School-University-Elderly Learning community”. 

The two-year project, involving active participation of HKBU students and staff, secondary school students and teachers and older adults in the community, aims at promoting youth development and cultivating their sense of belonging and positive social values through collaborative intergenerational engagement in issues of healthy living and well-being. 

The QEF project builds on the success of an earlier project, namely “Building learning community through a transdisciplinary multi-layered approach”, which has been carried out since 2013 and supported by HKBU’s Strategic Development Fund. Drawing on its unique learning community model, the project integrates action learning and service learning approaches. 

In view of the keen competition for QEF, Professor Sivan and Professor Tam view their successful application as recognition from the Government of the intergenerational learning community model developed at HKBU. They regard it as a great opportunity to further enhance HKBU’s mission of whole person education and wish to thank the Faculty of Social Sciences and the University for their support, making this important and invaluable undertaking possible.