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Legette, Roy M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of music education pre-service teachers with respect to providing musical experiences for young children as part of a pre-kindergarten music service learning practicum. The research question was: What are the perceptions of university music education pre-service teachers regarding teaching music…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Preschool Education, Student Attitudes, Music Education
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Amspaugh, Christina M.; Siegle, Del – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Recent widespread implementation of service-learning initiatives reflects increased commitment to civic engagement and service in higher education. Data regarding students' diverse orientations to service could be a powerful tool to inform thoughtful development of differentiated service-learning opportunities, contributing to better alignment and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Service Learning, Higher Education, Factor Analysis
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Stemhagen, Kurt; Hall, Amanda Faith – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
With this project, we seek to add historical and philosophical depth to the theoretical foundations for critical service learning and offer a philosophical framework that allows for a critical pedagogy of place. Lewis Mumford's Regional Survey is offered as a means to augment Deweyan democratic education. Regional Survey positions students out in…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Democracy, Progressive Education, Place Based Education
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Vaughns, Ashley Brailsford – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Although reflection is a critical component of service-learning experiences, few studies explore the learning outcomes associated with various types of reflection activities. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore what photo journals and structured narrative reflections reveal about learning outcomes for graduate preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Photography, Student Journals, Journal Writing, Reflective Teaching
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Nerren, Jannah Walters; Reily, Susan – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
A service-learning mentoring project was designed to impact two groups of participants. Five cohorts of pre-service teachers in an elementary preparation program provided weekly mentoring to elementary students identified as needing additional support. During this longitudinal study, thirteen elementary students were randomly paired with a…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Mentors, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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McLean, Mandy; McBeath, Jasmine Kyle; Susko, Tyler; Harlow, Danielle Boyd; Bianchini, Julie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
There is a growing demand in the US for more trained engineers, yet attrition rates from university engineering programs are high and diversity in engineering is low. Few resources have been dedicated to the improvement of freshman engineering courses even though freshman students have the highest rates of attrition. Through a synthesis of the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Engineering Education, Design, Active Learning
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Vaughan, Ashley Kathryn; Cunningham, Reanne – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Service-learning practices vary drastically across programs, courses, and locations with little consideration for these variations in the research. This study serves as an introduction to a research agenda exploring the components of service-learning practices--particularly those "best practices" recommended with little or no basis in…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Best Practices
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Stallworth-Clark, Rosemarie – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study, conducted in a Business/Technology course in a large public high school in Southeastern USA, Fall Semester, 2014, supports the use of Service-Learning in the schools for empowering students to serve the public good. Ninety-two students created classroom "DREAM TEAMS" for researching and seeking solutions for selected…
Descriptors: Service Learning, High School Students, Student Empowerment, Civics
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Oonk, Carla; Gulikers, Judith; Mulder, Martin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Boundary crossing competence is needed to tackle complex problems and should therefore be facilitated in education. The Regional Learning Environment, a typical service learning environment practiced in Dutch life sciences education, offers students ample opportunities to develop boundary crossing competence through multi-stakeholder…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Cooperation, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement
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Stewart, Kristyn; Sutherland, Danielle Morris – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study uses ethnographic methods to generate an understanding of college students' experiences participating in an immersive service-learning program located in an urban, high poverty neighborhood. While living in the community, students learned from organizers and participated in activities designed to build relationships that enhanced their…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Service Learning, Urban Schools
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Thomas, Christopher Lee; Tancock, Susan; Zygmunt, Eva M.; Clausen, Jon M.; Cipollone, Kristin; Clark, Patricia – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a 16-week program of community-engaged teacher preparation on preservice teachers' perceived efficacy in enacting culturally responsive teaching as well as their beliefs in the outcomes associated with such practice. Results of the examination revealed involvement in the community-engaged…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Culturally Relevant Education, Self Efficacy
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Jagla, Virginia M.; Lukenchuk, Antonina; Price, Todd Alan; Zilla, Kate – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Members of the National Louis University Civic Engagement Team developed research and evaluation tools for scholarly analysis of data on community engaged research and service-learning at our university then piloted them with students, faculty, and community partners. This study results from the pilot. We examined perspectives on service-learning…
Descriptors: Democracy, Service Learning, Learner Engagement, College Faculty
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Song, Wei; Lopez, Isabel; Furco, Andrew; Maruyama, Geoffrey M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Underrepresented students have been identified as being less likely to attain a college degree than their majority counterparts. Experiential pedagogies, specifically service-learning (SL), offer students an opportunity to engage in community work and improve skills that might contribute to their educational success in college. The present study…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Access to Education, Teaching Methods, Service Learning
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Burke, Christopher – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper reflects on the impact of engaging pre-service teachers in an academic service-learning project working with urban students on a place-based science project. This collaboration seeks to provide pre-service teachers with experiences that encourage them to recognize the importance students' funds of knowledge and help them develop the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Service Learning, Science Instruction
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King, Teresa C.; Garcia, Miguel – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this study was to conduct a longitudinal examination of the relationship between sustained after-school participation and a district's Early Warning Index associated with school dropout in a large urban school district. The study included 64,351 students participating between 2000-2001 and the 2011-2012 school years. Data were…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Academic Persistence, Student Participation, Dropouts