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Casey, J. Elizabeth; Kuklies, Kimberly; Warner, Chelsea – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2022
It is important to build preservice teachers' self-efficacy in working with diverse learners. During summer of 2021, faculty from a mid-sized public university in the southwest took a small group of preservice teachers into central Mexico to provide opportunities in working with diverse learners and/or emergent bilingual students. Although this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Bilingual Students
González López, Luis Gerardo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Service-learning is a form of experiential learning whereby students learn and develop through active participation in a carefully organized service that addresses the needs of the community. It is rooted in the reflective experiential traditions of Dewey, Kolb, and Freire. It provides students with opportunities for development in a variety of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Qualitative Research, Student Diversity
Acuna, Kym – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the High Tec Middle School teachers' and administrators' knowledge of the service learning model upon which the school's service learning program has been based, their views regarding their role in student character formation through service learning, and the teachers' feelings of ownership regarding the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Middle School Teachers, Administrators
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Florman, Jean C.; Just, Craig; Naka, Tomomi; Peterson, Jim; Seaba, Hazel H. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2009
In this article, the authors describe how an existing partnership between two communities, one in eastern Iowa and one in Mexico, was turned into a cross-disciplinary and international service learning course for students in the University of Iowa Colleges of Engineering, Pharmacy, and Liberal Arts and Sciences. The projects that students worked…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Community Development
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Plante, Thomas G.; Lackey, Katy; Hwang, Jeong Yeon – Journal of Experiential Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the possible enhancement of compassion in college students as a result of participating in community-based learning immersion trips. In two separate experiments, a total of 123 college students were given a series of questionnaires immediately before and after university-sponsored immersion experiences to…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Empathy, Altruism
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Schneller, Andrew Jon – Environmental Education Research, 2008
This article reports on a longitudinal study of a two-semester middle school environmental learning course that departs from traditional Mexican expository pedagogies through the incorporation of experiential and service learning approaches. In the short term, course participants acquired a heightened awareness of environmental issues, augmented…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Outcomes of Education
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Teranishi, Christy S. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2007
Using mixed methods of inquiry, this study examines the impact of experiential learning on Latino/a college students' development as they move away from home to study and do community service in another country. Journals reveal that students developed their identity, relationships, awareness of structural inequalities, and connectedness to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Hispanic American Students, College Students, Study Abroad
Simonelli, Jeanne; Earle, Duncan; Story, Elizabeth – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2004
Joint service-learning programs of Wake Forest University and the University of Texas-El Paso are working to develop an anthropologically-informed service model for/with the authors' Universities, our students, and our community colleagues. Building on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and experience leading experiential programs, the model results…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Summer Programs, Field Experience Programs