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Keesler, John M.; Presnell, Jade A. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2022
Service learning, an often-cited pedagogical approach in social work education, may be one strategy to assuage student anxiety about research course work and create continuity in siloed course content. The present study sought to provide an understanding of the impact of a service-learning project embedded in a first-year, graduate-level research…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Study, Service Learning, Graduate Students
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Pettit, Jennifer; Rathburn, Melanie; Calvert, Victoria; Lexier, Roberta; Underwood, Margot; Gleeson, Judy; Dean, Yasmin – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter describes a multidisciplinary faculty self-study about reciprocity in service-learning. The study began with each coauthor participating in a Decoding interview. We describe how Decoding combined with collaborative self-study had a positive impact on our teaching practice.
Descriptors: Interviews, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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O'Meara, Casey – Critical Questions in Education, 2017
This instrumental case study describes students' experiences in an academic cluster gateway course through social justice service-learning as civic learning pedagogy. The case under study recognized institutional factors supporting participatory off-campus community learning, and social justice service-learning as a type of civic learning pedagogy.
Descriptors: Student Experience, Social Justice, Service Learning, Citizenship Education
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Smith-Tolken, Antoinette; Bitzer, Eli – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
This study addresses underlying principles to interpret scholarly-based service-related teaching and learning. Such principles include addressing specific concerns of communities, transforming theoretical knowledge into lived experiences for students, making the knowledge generated within communities meaningful and forging constant growth and…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College School Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Dunn, Leah S.; Ceo-DiFrancesco, Diane; Srivastava, Rakhi – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to establish a shared vision between the academic program and the international service-learning partner. Through the use of photovoice (Collier & Collier, 1986), we conducted a needs assessment to determine the partner's priorities. Analysis of interview transcripts and photos yielded themes representing the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Service Learning, Study Abroad, Needs Assessment
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Leon, Kendall; Pinkert, Laurie A.; Trauth Taylor, Kathryn – Composition Studies, 2017
In this article, we detail our findings from a case study of three instructors as they newly implemented service-learning pedagogies into their first year writing classes. Drawing on the instructors' perspectives as part of a larger programmatic assessment, we demonstrate that a service-learning curriculum can broadly foster learning outcomes for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Service Learning, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction
Baker, Amanda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation consists of a theoretical essay and two empirical studies exploring the associations between students' perspectives on knowledge, the processes they use to negotiate dissonance, and their subsequent service-learning outcomes. The overarching goal of this research is to better understand why some students productively negotiate…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Postsecondary Education, Service Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Thompson, Julia D.; Jesiek, Brent K. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2017
This paper examines how the structural features of engineering engagement programs (EEPs) are related to the nature of their service-learning partnerships. "Structure" refers to formal and informal models, processes, and operations adopted or used to describe engagement programs, while "nature" signifies the quality of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Interviews
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Bailey, Megan Snider – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2017
This article represents the culmination of a two-year qualitative case study concerning how 33 students in a service-learning course understood poverty as they prepared taxes for low-income families through the IRS's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. Because the tax site communities are seen as community partners in their own right, this…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, College Students
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Wilson, Rachel E.; Bradbury, Leslie U.; McGlasson, Martha A. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2015
The purpose of this article is to explore how preservice elementary teachers (PSETs) interpreted their service-learning experiences within a pre-methods environmentally focused course and how their interpretations shaped their science teaching identities. Along a continuum of service-learning experiences were events that emphasized science…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Science Instruction
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Fogle, Elizabeth M.; Franco, Savio D.; Jesse, Edel M.; Kondritz, Brent; Maxam, Lindsay; Much-McGrew, Heidi; McMillen, Cody; Ridenour, Carolyn S.; Trunk, Daniel J. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2017
Students participating in sustained community service at an urban Catholic and Marianist university were volunteer informants in this qualitative exploration of the meaning they make of their service experiences. A PhD student research team (nine members) interviewed fourteen undergraduate students (10 of whom were seniors). Findings were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Service Learning, Church Related Colleges, Catholics
Kerrigan, Seanna M.; Reitenauer, Vicki L.; Arevalo-Meier, Nora – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
In the past two decades, the literature on campus-community partnerships as core components of pedagogies of engagement has grown exponentially. In this article, the director and a longtime faculty member of Portland State University's capstone program report on interviews conducted with ten faculty-community partner pairs, gleaning insights on…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Faculty, Interviews, Partnerships in Education
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Taylor, Alison; Kahlke, Renate – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This paper explores how community service-learning (CSL) participants negotiate competing institutional logics in Canadian higher education. Drawing theoretically from new institutionalism and work on institutional logics, we consider how CSL has developed in Canadian universities and how participants discuss CSL in relation to other dominant…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes
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Barnes, Meghan E. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2016
To prepare preservice teachers (PSTs) to work with diverse populations of PreK-12 students, teacher educators are incorporating a variety of field-based experiences into teacher preparation. Service-learning courses can provide PSTs with additional field experiences beyond formal student teaching. This study is concerned with the experiences of a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Experience
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Knackmuhs, Eric; Farmer, James; Reynolds, Heather L. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2017
Service learning with ecological restoration projects can positively affect participants' attitudes, behaviors, and learning, but little is known about the longevity of these effects. Furthermore, urban green spaces are an understudied, yet increasingly important, context for eco-restoration service learning. This study examined the persistence of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Outcomes of Education, Undergraduate Students, Urban Areas
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