Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program
The Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program meta microcredential recognizes a fellows sustained participation in a two-year social change leadership curriculum consisting of five semester-based practicums, for which they earn a microcredential.
Five individual semester-long seminars focused on identity, society, culture, ethics and values, and place-based leadership, fellows integrate academic coursework, community-based service, cohort learning, and reflective practice. This meta credential affirms mastery of core civic competencies, ethical leadership, and community engagement, and serves as a formal recognition of the programs high-impact, experiential learning framework.
Earning Criteria
- Complete 5 out of 5 Peaceworker practicum-based microcredentials:
1] Prac 097: Introduction to Social Change Leadership
2] Prac 090: Service, Peace, and the Individual
3] Prac 091: Service, Peace, and Society
4] Prac 092: Service, Peace, and Culture
5] Prac 093: Worldviews, Wisdom, and Wellsprings
- Create and publicly share a digital portfolio which reflects the growth and learning over the course of the fellowship.
1] Prac 097: Introduction to Social Change Leadership
2] Prac 090: Service, Peace, and the Individual
3] Prac 091: Service, Peace, and Society
4] Prac 092: Service, Peace, and Culture
5] Prac 093: Worldviews, Wisdom, and Wellsprings
- Create and publicly share a digital portfolio which reflects the growth and learning over the course of the fellowship.
Additional Details
Learning Outcomes
1. Demonstrate sustained engagement with service-based learning and civic leadership across diverse settings and themes across the 21 months of the program.
2. Integrate personal reflection, community engagement, and academic learning into a coherent leadership philosophy across the five semesters of the practicum progression.
3. Apply theories of social change, cultural humility, and ethical decision-making to real-world service experiences.
4. Facilitate peer learning, model professional communication, and contribute to a community of practice through at least four facilitated sessions that the fellow designs and leads.
5. Reflect critically on ones evolving identity, motivations, and commitments to social impact work through ethical reflection sessions, creation of a digital story, and creation of a culminating digital portfolio which reflects the growth and learning over the course of the fellowship.
2. Integrate personal reflection, community engagement, and academic learning into a coherent leadership philosophy across the five semesters of the practicum progression.
3. Apply theories of social change, cultural humility, and ethical decision-making to real-world service experiences.
4. Facilitate peer learning, model professional communication, and contribute to a community of practice through at least four facilitated sessions that the fellow designs and leads.
5. Reflect critically on ones evolving identity, motivations, and commitments to social impact work through ethical reflection sessions, creation of a digital story, and creation of a culminating digital portfolio which reflects the growth and learning over the course of the fellowship.
Time to Earn
Approximately 24 months
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