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Baker, Vicki L.; Walling, Carrie Booth – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2023
Employing an institutional case study approach, this manuscript features two high-impact learning opportunities open to Albion College students who seek to contribute to solving real-world problems in collaboration with local and surrounding communities: Albion College Community Collaborative (AC3) and Human Rights Lab. The programmatic approach…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Higher Education, School Community Programs, Partnerships in Education
Sanmiguel, Elizabeth R.; Reyes, Alexandra; Burns, Dwight; Huber, Tonya – Multicultural Education, 2019
Driven by the motto of civic engagement and local to global citizenship,Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) is a campus that emphasizes building a friendly community in which students and faculty engage in building strong personal and professional relationships that will lead them toward a more globally aware, socially just, and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Service Learning, Volunteers, Learner Engagement
Finley, Ashley – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2016
For over a decade, the national Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) project has promoted the idea that well-being is an essential outcome of college students' learning and civic engagement. The project emphasizes the full promise of a liberal education: to be liberally educated is to possess the complex skills and abilities necessary for…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Students, Liberal Arts, Skill Development
Gallay, Erin; Marckini-Polk, Lisa; Schroeder, Brandon; Flanagan, Constance – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
In this mixed-methods study, we examine the potential of place-based stewardship education (PBSE) for nurturing rural students' community attachment and aspirations to contribute to the preservation of the environmental "commons." Analyzing pre- and post-experience surveys (n = 240) and open-ended responses (n = 275) collected from…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Mixed Methods Research, Environmental Education, Rural Areas
Taylor, Julie Anne; Iroha, Okezie – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2015
The aim of this action-research project was to evaluate the impact of high school students' involvement in community-oriented, art-based work in the social studies. In Detroit, high school students engaged in persuasive writing and design while exploring community issues. The project culminated in the installation of student artwork on a billboard…
Descriptors: Social Studies, High School Students, School Community Programs, Art Products
Priest, Kerry L.; Bauer, Tamara; Fine, Leigh E. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2015
Contemporary trends in leadership education emphasize paradigms of learning and educational practices associated with developing responsible citizens, furthering higher education's civic mission. Yet, few introductory leadership courses include an explicit civic component (Johnson & Woodard, 2014). Service-learning is a high-impact practice…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Citizenship Education, Introductory Courses, Civics
DePaola, Tom – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2014
This chapter explores elements that should be included in a service learning style internship program in urban community colleges. It provides theoretical background and descriptions of best practices for forming community partnerships, collaboratively developing learning outcomes, and aligning program design with institutional general education…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Service Learning, Urban Schools
Seider, Scott – Journal of College and Character, 2013
A growing body of research has found community service learning to have a positive effect upon participating college students' civic development; however, far less scholarship has considered the impact of particular components of a community service learning program. This article presents two preliminary but promising strategies for enhancing the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Expectation, Student Experience
Dostilio, Lina D.; Conti, Norman; Kronk, Rebecca; Weideman, Yvonne L.; Woodley, Sarah K.; Trun, Nancy – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2013
This article presents three cases of community-engaged, or "public," scholarship across diverse disciplines (social science, natural science, and health science) in which the rigid boundaries of what has been conceived as traditional service-learning have been blurred. The innovations represented within these cases explicitly address…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Scholarship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences
McEwen, Lindsey – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
There is strong evidence that all students can gain significant learning benefit when their courses include opportunities for engagement with real-world problems, beyond the walls of their higher education institution (HEI).
Internationally, cross-disciplinary discussions are increasing around the value of student learning that involves community…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Community Involvement, Citizenship, Learning Experience
Nandan, Monica; Scott, Patricia – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
This article describes an innovative project that combined service learning and community-based partnerships to teach macro practice skills to social work students and citizenship skills to primary school students. The partners, a small social work program, several primary schools, and an internationally recognized civic engagement program,…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Service Learning, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy
Ullman, Alysa – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2009
People's attitudes towards ethnicity and culture are formed in their youth. Elementary school students have a great proclivity to develop a positive outlook towards diversity when appropriately guided by teachers and school administrators. As educators aim to create an integrated and harmonious society, they need to recognize that these early…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Citizenship, Ceremonies, Service Learning
Christie, Erica M.; Montgomery, Sarah E.; Staudt, Jessica – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
Dr. Wangari Maathai--"environmentalist, human rights advocate, global peace worker, and community builder"--passed away in 2011. The first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Maathai left a legacy even greater than the 47 million trees that her organization, the Greenbelt Movement, has planted across Kenya since 1977. As…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Foreign Countries, Reflection, Sustainable Development
Sakar, A. Nurhan; Ozturk, Oznur – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In 2006, following the Bologna Process, Turkish Council of Higher Education (YOK) adopted a resolution and changed the curriculum of teacher training higher education institutions. This curriculum revision introduced a new course called "Community Service" which aims to raise students' awareness of their responsibilities as individuals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Blended Learning, Web Based Instruction
Gomez, Barbara – 1999
In 1997 the Education Commission of the States (ECS) created the Compact for Learning and Citizenship (CLC), an organization of state and district superintendents working to improve student learning through civic involvement and the use of volunteers. This issue paper provides an overview of service-learning, discussing impact, alignment with…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, School Community Programs, Service Learning