In 2008, Macquarie University instituted the Participation and Community Engagement (PACE) initiative. This initiative embeds units in the curriculum that involve learning through participation (LTP) that is mutually beneficial to the student, the University and the organisation or community in which student participation activities take place.…

The growing complexity of urban industrial society necessitates adequate planning techniques to insure future livability, but traditional methods of training planners have emphasized technology and ignored the human element. To remedy this deficiency, training programs should be expanded to include the social and political aspects of planning.…

Uses a longitudinal design to explore the impact of one popular alternative to conventional courses in political education--a technique which encourages political learning by political doing--on changing black students' feelings of efficacy and cynicism and their perceptions of citizen duty. (Author/AM)