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Pasquesi, Kira – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
This chapter highlights community building as a pedagogical foundation for effective integration of service-learning and community engagement practices in higher education.
Descriptors: Service Learning, Community Involvement, Higher Education, Educational Practices
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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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Dallimore, Elise; Rochefort, David A.; Simonelli, Kristen – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
Community-Based Learning and Research (CBLR) provides opportunities for institutions of higher education to achieve their goals of educating students, advancing teaching and scholarship, and meeting real needs of under-resourced communities and nonprofit organizations. By providing successful examples of campus and community partnership, this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Experiential Learning, Service Learning, Place Based Education
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Moore, David Thornton – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
Programs falling under the general rubric of "experiential education" take a number of forms, varying on several dimensions; what is offered here is a schematic overview. In general, they all involve students in activities that look rather different from more traditional classroom-based methods: (1) the formal lecture and discussion; (2) the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Felten, Peter; Clayton, Patti H. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
The question of how best to fulfill the academy's role in civic life animates many discussions about the identity and function of higher education in the twenty-first century. Service-learning is emerging as a central component of efforts to connect both disciplinary learning and general education with this historic and increasingly salient…
Descriptors: Evidence, Higher Education, Transformative Learning, Service Learning
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Snavely, Loanne – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Three interconnected aspects of higher education and information literacy are essential. The first is global educational goals and the place of information literacy within those goals. The second is new research on higher education effectiveness and the role of information literacy for successful learning. The third is the role technology plays in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Literacy
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Harkavy, Ira; Benson, Lee – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Examines the theoretical bases of academic service learning, with particular attention to John Dewey's contributions. Conceptualizes the service learning movement as part of an ongoing, and still unsuccessful, effort to "de-Platonize" and democratize American higher education in articular and American schooling in general. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends
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Cooper, David D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Describes both principles and use of the critical incident journal, in which the student in a college-level academic service learning program details experiences that change his perspective. The format requires students to describe their roles in the incidents, analyze their own and others' responses to it, and reflect on its impact on self and…
Descriptors: Assignments, College Instruction, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
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Dixon, D. Scott – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Lists key resources for the field of service learning, including books, journals, and a World Wide Web site to help practitioners and researchers. Most citations are annotated. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Sikula, John; Sikula, Andrew, Sr. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005
Spirituality and service learning can be related meaningfully in institutions of higher education when there is a focus on serving others.
Descriptors: Religious Factors, College Students, Service Learning, Spiritual Development
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Watts, Margit Misangyi – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
Using the example of an online service learning course, makes a case for the inclusion of service learning in higher education and the ability to do so seamlessly by using new communication technologies. (EV)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
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Mendel-Reyes, Meta – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
As a pedagogy for citizenship, academic service learning offers students the opportunity to experience and reflect on how citizens organize to bring their communities and their country closer to democracy. The three-course Democracy Project at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania) illustrates how this approach can be developed within a college…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Curriculum, College Instruction, Democratic Values
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Zlotkowski, Edward – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Suggests that service learning, as an innovative practice in college teaching, challenges faculty in complex ways and proposes a matrix to help conceptualize different focus areas in service learning (student, expertise, sponsor, or common good) and instructional concerns (values development, pedagogical strategies, academic culture, and community…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
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Rhoads, Robert A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
Discusses how service learning can promote the development of a "caring self" in college students by drawing on the ideas of John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and contemporary critical theorists. Links this caring self to democratic citizenship and uses students' narratives to illustrate how it develops through service learning contexts.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Educational Philosophy, Helping Relationship
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Rhoads, Robert A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Discusses how critical multiculturalism can be used to inform academic service learning, offering as an example the case study of a Pennsylvania State University project in which college students work with homeless citizens in Washington, DC. Stresses the importance of intentionality in planning the community service components of academic service…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Course Descriptions, Critical Thinking
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