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Haselau, Tracey; Saville Young, Lisa – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: This paper describes findings from research conducted on students who participated in a service-learning course in South Africa. Objective: The study aimed to understand how participants constructed their experiences of service-learning and to interrogate their emotional investments in these constructions. Method: Data were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Service Learning, Discourse Analysis
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Lauren B. Cattaneo; Marissa M. Salazar; Kevin Ramseur II; Jenna M. Calton; Rachel Shor – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2023
Though uncomfortable emotion in the classroom has become politically controversial, scholarship has established its importance. In transformational learning in particular, scholars have theorized that far from being an undesirable side effect, student emotion is inherent in shifting beliefs and motivating action. In the "pedagogy of…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Citizen Participation
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Jacobs, Rachael – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
Dewey (1938) once wrote that the most effective forms of learning connect intellectual processes with emotion, which is able to inspire curiosity and excite the learner. This paper adds to the body of research that attests to the transformative role of affect in teacher education, which is able to be cultivated through arts-based service-learning…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Student Experience, Art Education
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Allen, Joseph A.; Fosler, Kaitlin; Prange, Kelly – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
Service-learning courses offer a unique experience to students by reinforcing typical school curriculum with experiences outside the classroom, where the emphasis is on learning by doing accompanied with reflection (Conrad & Hedin, 1981). Studies show that the quality of the service-learning experience has the potential to impact student…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Learning Experience, Self Efficacy, Learner Engagement
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Yarbrough, Elizabeth; Matthew, Stephanie; Hockett, Eloise – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This article examines the phenomena of mismatched expectations on international nursing service-learning trips and the resulting dissonance those expectations can produce in trip participants. The work of Festinger and others are used as a theoretical framework for recognizing the elements of dissonance and how to navigate through the various…
Descriptors: Expectation, Psychological Patterns, Study Abroad, Travel
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Kelley, Douglas L.; Shore, Chelsea – Communication Teacher, 2022
This study provides a thematic analysis of student transformative experience regarding personal and social change in a service learning (SL) course wherein students volunteer in embedded inner-city contexts. Several transformative themes emerged through interpretive analysis of student journals. Especially important to this investigation, we…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Barriers
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Puntil, Donata; Dias, Gisele; Kralj, Carolina; Deplessis, Cathy; Rylance-Watson, Elizabeth; Ma, Carol; Zunszain, Patricia A. – Student Success, 2022
The aim of this practice report is to discuss the implementation of a service-learning module developed to support the psychological wellbeing of postgraduate students and older adults in the community, with a view to fostering their connection and tackling loneliness in both populations. The module, 'Self-Identity, Intergenerational and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Older Adults, Well Being
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James, Angela – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2021
The newspaper headlines in July 2020, reflected the context of COVID-19 and the challenges in the education sector in South Africa. Pre-service teachers completing a Biological Sciences for Educations Research and Service-Learning module conducted their Service-Learning in their home contexts, which under normal times, they would do so in the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Preservice Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Wang, Cong; Zhang, Xiao; Yao, Meilin – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Service-learning (SL) is a form of experiential education which promotes student learning through community service and critical reflection. This study aims to examine the effect of SL on Chinese college students' transfer of learning and to explore the psychological mechanism of such effect. In Phase 1 with 186 Chinese college students, the SL…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Adarlo, Genejane; Amor, Urduja; Marquez, Norman Dennis – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
Although there have been growing concerns on how service-learning can accentuate the power differences between the server and the served, service-learning can foster transformative partnership by recognizing the contributions each can offer for a better society. Using participant observation and discourse analysis, this case study examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Partnerships in Education
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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Leaver, Betty Lou; Campbell, Christine – L2 Journal, 2023
Language-related Study Abroad (SA) experiences can be catalysts for learner transformation in the areas of cognition, socialization, and/or affect by virtue of the location and experience. An Open Architecture Curriculum Design (OACD) framework can support, promote, and enhance such transformation, as evidenced in eight programs for young adults,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Transformative Learning, Socialization, Curriculum Design
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Kearns, Laura-Lee – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This case study explores the impact of an English language Arts Secondary methods class that focused on learning with and from Indigenous people. By participating in a number of in-class activities, taking a field trip, and engaging in a critical service-learning project that helped decentre the learner/teacher relationship, many non-Indigenous…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Transformative Learning, English, Language Arts
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Shor, Rachel; Cattaneo, Lauren; Calton, Jenna – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This study extended research on transformational service learning by examining the impact that a community placement context can have on college students' transformational processes. Kiely's "Transformational Service-Learning Process Model" was used as a framework to better understand how context, dissonance, and student reactions are…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Models, Guidelines
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Evans, Heather K. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2015
Given the decline in political engagement among the electorate, especially among youth, there has been an effort to increase engagement through service-learning courses at both the high school and college levels. The research that exists regarding the effects of these courses on students is mixed. Some studies show that students become more…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Political Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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