David Peacock, PhD, MCEd, BComm

Area of Study / Keywords

institutional ethnography student equity community engagement experiential learning

About

David is the Director of the Community Service-Learning Program at UAlberta (North Campus).

David gained his PhD on “Student Equity Policy and Practice” from the University of Queensland in August 2014. 

David is a dual Australian-Canadian national who was instrumental in the development of the CSL program at the University of Saskatchewan, where he also completed his Master’s thesis on “Transforming Lives through International Community Service-Learning”. He was a founding steering committee member of the Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning (CACSL), and also worked as the Service-Learning Coordinator at Queensland University of Technology where he held the role of Community Engaged Learning Coordinator.. 

Research

David's research interests and publications span institutional ethnography, student equity in higher education, critical modes of university-community engagement, international service-learning and student mobilities, and curriculum theory. David is currently researching how low income students participate in community engaged learning, and the 'wilification' of Canadian experiential learning.  

Teaching

David teaches CSL 350/550, An Introduction to Community-Based Research.  CSL 350 is an introduction to the theory and practice of community based-research. It involves students in 30 hours of voluntary, research activities with Edmonton NGOs, such as EMCN (2016), e4C (2018), EndPovertyEdmonton (2020) and Edmonton Community Foundation's Hilltop student awards programme (2022).  CSL 350 introduces Community Based-Research as an action-oriented, participatory form of research that is aimed at the democratization of knowledge production and positive social change and social justice. Students will actively contribute to data collection (interviews, observations) and begin a process of analysis and coding designed to produce research posters and blogs on community identified research questions.  

CSL 480 - Individual Study in Community Service-Learning

Individual study opportunity on topics for which no specific course is currently offered. Prerequisites: Consent of Community Service - Learning Director, consent of instructor, and completion of a 3 credit course with a CSL component.

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