Team led by Dr Grace NGAI
(Dr Grace NGAI and Dr Stephen CHAN)
Recipient of 2016 UGC Teaching Award
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General Faculty Members/Teams
Affiliation at the time of the award
- Dr Grace Ngai
Associate Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Dr Stephen Chan
Head, Office of Service Learning and Associate Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Award Citation
Dr Grace Ngai and Dr Stephen Chan, with a view to advancing the practice of Service Learning (SL), have formed multicultural student teams through partnerships with local non-government organisations, organised student-exchange programmes, and piloted an innovative 'global SL classroom' initiative. Over the last 10 years, Dr Ngai and Dr Chan have increased the coverage of their service projects from Hong Kong and the Mainland to Cambodia, Myanmar, Rwanda and Kyrgyzstan. They have helped the university management conceptualise SL as an integral component of the undergraduate curriculum, and implement SL as an institutional teaching and learning strategy. Dr Ngai and Dr Chan plan to use the award grant to launch an SL Development Programme to establish a sizeable seed community of SL practitioners from across Hong Kong's universities and a set of rigorous academic SL subjects.
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