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Brown, Aaron; Bauer, Michael – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Community Development, Sustainable Development
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Shah, Rachael W.; Troester, Jennifer Selting; Brooke, Robert; Gatti, Lauren; Thomas, Sarah L.; Masterson, Jessica – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
The continuing expansion of digital service-learning is bringing emergent dynamics to the field of community engagement, including the challenge of fostering asset-based views of community partners in online spaces. "Online disinhibition" ("Suler," 2004) can prompt harsh critique or insensitive language that would not have…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Community Development, Case Studies, Electronic Learning
Henness, Steven A. – 2001
Community development-oriented service learning (CDOSL) is an approach to service learning that integrates service with the school curriculum and the local community development agenda. This study examined the positive impacts that CDOSL has on rural students and communities. Surveys and case study research were conducted with 145 students,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Educational Cooperation, Educational Strategies
ACTION, Washington, DC. National Center for Service - Learning. – 1979
A guide for college and university educators who manage service-learning programs, or programs that support student involvement in the community, is presented. A systematic approach to planning and managing service-learning programs is presented, management functions for supporting a service-learning system are identified, and ideas on…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Responsibility, College Students, Community Development