{"id":19668,"date":"2012-11-21T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=19668"},"modified":"2012-11-21T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:14:51","slug":"workshop-bridges-community-and-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/11\/workshop-bridges-community-and-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop bridges community and classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19669\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bridging.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19669\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19669\" title=\"Bridging Classroom and Community\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bridging.jpg\" alt=\"Guest speakers Howie Dayton (centre), Carolyn Fast (centre left) and Clarie-Tucker Reid (centre right) surrounded by current and former recreation and leisure studies students. \" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guest speakers Howie Dayton (centre), Carolyn Fast (centre left) and Clarie-Tucker Reid (centre right) surrounded by current and former recreation and leisure studies students. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 40 recreation and leisure students from Brock attended a one-day dialogue on current issues facing citizen engagement in recreation earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Bridging Classroom and Community Learning in Recreation workshop was held at the Welland Wellness Complex on Nov. 6 and included local professionals in recreation and community services and students from Niagara College and Brock University.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Barnes, associate professor of <a title=\"Recreation and Leisure Studies\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/applied-health-sciences\/academic-departments\/rec-leisure\" target=\"_blank\">Recreation and Leisure Studies<\/a> and member of the steering committee for the event, noted that the workshop was a great opportunity for students from different schools to network with one another, as well as community leaders and potential future employers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a former Brock student and graduate, I cannot say enough about the importance of taking advantage of any and all networking opportunities that occur,&#8221; said Sarah Ane, community development and volunteer co-ordinator for the City of Welland and steering committee member.<\/p>\n<p>Presentations were made by Howie Dayton, past president of Parks and Recreation Ontario and founding chair of the Task Force for Affordable Recreation, Claire Tucker-Reid, former general manager of Parks and Recreation for the City of Toronto, and Carolyn Fast, founding director of the <a title=\"Welland Neighbourhood Project\" href=\"http:\/\/wnponline.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Welland Neighbourhood Project. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Future bridging events are in the works and will focus on other key themes and issues related to community recreation and leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 40 recreation and leisure students from Brock attended a one-day dialogue on current issues facing citizen engagement in recreation earlier this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19671,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19668\/revisions\/19671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}