Understanding Undergraduates’ Perceptions of Civic Engagement Across Countries

• In Event: Civic Engagement Pedagogy Across the Globe

Abstract

Freehand drawing is a visual representation technique sometimes employed to bypass cognitive verbal processing routes as part of a critical pedagogy. This allows students to produce clear, more critical and inclusive images of their understanding of a topic irrespective of their vocabulary. This chapter presents an interpretation of freehand drawings produced by a sample of final year degree students in response to the question: ‘What is Civic Engagement?’ The students were pursuing the same degree, with some studying in an Irish, and others in an Egyptian, university. The drawings presented here provide insights into how they perceived civic engagement and their roles in their societies.

Authors

• Sharon Mary Feeney, Technological University (TU) Dublin

• John W. Hogan, Technological University Dublin