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Rocha Beardall, Theresa – Teaching Sociology, 2023
The distressing events of 2020 challenged the United States to reimagine how our social institutions can and should respond to demands for racial justice. These demands impacted higher education and debates arose about whether the classroom is an appropriate place for teaching abolition. I address this debate by introducing a senior-level elective…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Social Justice, College Seniors, Elective Courses
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Goff, Jennifer; Hill, Eddie; Eckhoff, Angela; Dice, Tammi – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2020
Service-learning are structured experiences where students gain awareness and knowledge as it relates to civic responsibility, one of a few high-impact practices identified by the AAC&U. To help assess this practice, we utilized a directed content analysis approach of the final written reflections of undergraduate recreation students who…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Outcomes of Education, Majors (Students), Social Responsibility
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Griffin, Monica D. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2012
The following study analyzes the nearly 20-year curricular evolution of civic engagement at a small liberal arts university in the southeastern United States, the College of William and Mary; in doing so, the researcher qualitatively examines the nature of scholarship in service-learning courses over a period of the last five years to lay…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Context Effect, Teacher Participation, Citizen Participation
Sirianni, Carmen – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2005
The burgeoning literature on youth civic engagement points to many different ways in which youth can contribute to the democratic life of communities, institutions, and the larger polity: voting, advocacy, service learning, community-university partnerships, and youth organizing, to name just a few. Hampton, however, represents a case where the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, City Government, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizen Participation