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Critical Community Engagement: Exploring contemporary pedagogy related to service and action

🗓️ November 28 - 29, 2025
🧭 Bangkok, Thailand (Marriott Executive Apartments, Sukhumvit Soi 24)
🕣 9.00 am - 3.00 pm
🗓️ Register by October 17, 2025
🧑‍🧒 This is a PD Alliance Workshop - two participants can attend for the price of one.

The Professional Development (PD) Alliance is a network that connects educators with valuable training opportunities.

Workshop Overview

Many schools highlight the development of global citizens as part of their mission, with service at the heart of an IB education and beyond. Yet, even with the best intentions, school-led service activities can sometimes have unintended negative impacts.
This workshop invites educators to pause and reflect:
Are we practicing what we teach?
Are our choices and actions truly ethical in how we guide students’ engagement with communities?
Participants will:
→ Explore practices and pedagogy for meaningful community engagement.
→ Inquire into what ethical and principled engagement looks like.
→ Consider the role of critical reflection when working with local and global communities.

Target Audience

Designed for all educators passionate about guiding students—and schools—towards impactful, sustainable, and principled action.
🧑‍🧒‍🧒 We encourage school teams to attend together to foster shared language, mutual growth, and collective transformation within your learning community.

What participants will inquire into in each session

Day 1

🔹 Session 1 - From Service to Community Engagement
- Potential issues with traditional service learning

- The meaning of community engagement

- Community Engagement and Global Citizenship

🔹 Session 2 - Critical Community Engagement
- The critical consciousness perspective

- Charity compared to transformative action.

- The relationship between systems thinking and Community Engagement

🔹 Session 3 - Reflexivity and reflection
- Reflexivity
- The role of critical reflection
🔹 Session 4 - The E in Community Engagement
- Ethical consequences in community engagement

- Role of schools to support ethical engagement

Day 2

🔹 Session 5 - Community Engagement processes

- The how of Community Engagement
🔹 Session 6 - Is Community Engagement enough?
- The need for a broader approach to enriching our spaces
🔹 Session 7 - A culture of engagement
- Establishing and maintaining a school culture of Community Engagement
🔹 Session 8 - Your next steps
- Barriers and solutions to developing opportunities for Community Engagement 

- Reflect upon workshop learning 

 - Personal action plans

Workshop Facilitator

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Peter Muir In his 21st year of teaching in international schools in Asia, Peter has 15 years’ experience as a Coordinator of various IB programmes.
He has been a IB workshop leader since 2009 and has various other roles with the IB, including curriculum development activities, workshop design and a member of the team that developed the current IBDP CAS guide.
More recently, he was a member of the working group developing new guidelines for the MYP Community Project and was a co-author of 'Creativity, Activity, Service, (CAS) for the IB Diploma: An Essential Guide for Students' published by Cambridge University Press. 
Peter is currently the Director for Teaching and Learning at KIS International School Bangkok and has a keen interest in guiding students to take ‘principled action’.

Workshop Fee

Individual
USD 630 per participant
Discount for a team of two registering together (PD Alliance)
USD 315 per participant
Meeting Package
A meeting package fee of USD 110 per participant will be added to the workshop fee.
The meeting package is inclusive of coffee breaks, lunch and workshop materials

FAQ

Will I get a certificate of participation?
Yes.
If I cannot attend the workshop. Will you offer me a refund?
If you are unable to attend the workshop, you can transfer your registration to another colleague.  The fee will not be refunded.  
What if the workshop is cancelled by the organiser (KSIPD)?
If the workshop is canceled by the organizer (KSIPD) due to lack of participants or any other unforeseen reason, the workshop fee will be refunded.

Contact

For further queries:
Email: [email protected]