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Mtawa, Ntimi N.; Nkhoma, Nelson Masanche – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
Universities are criticised for overemphasising instrumental values. Instrumental values are important but universities risks undermining cultivation of humanity, critical consciousness and civic agency. Service-learning (SL) is practice that moves teaching and learning beyond the focus on technical skills and instrumental outcomes. Nonetheless,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Higher Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Citizenship Education
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France-Harris, Antoinette; Burton, Christie; Mooney, Mara – Online Learning, 2019
Scholars widely agree that community-engaged learning can significantly improve the learning experience for students while simultaneously having a positive impact on the community. This paper explores student perceptions in online pre-professional undergraduate courses in the legal studies and human resources management fields in which…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Models, Online Courses, Legal Education (Professions)
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Day, Deborah A.; Lane, Terry – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Student development has connections to important academic purposes in higher education (King, Baxter Magolda, Barber, Kendall Brown & Lindsay, 2009). In particular, a growing body of work on self-authorship, a social-constructive theory of development, has demonstrated relevance to the purposes of higher education (Baxter Magolda, 2001; King…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Role
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Gustafson, Kevin; Cureton, Zachary – Honors in Practice, 2014
One of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program is that it creates opportunities for undergraduate research, opportunities that frequently culminate in a senior thesis or capstone project. This article describes how the University of Texas at Arlington Honors College integrated…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Student Projects, Student Research, Undergraduate Study
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Lester, Scott W. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2015
The author presents keys to designing a class that successfully melds service learning and student leadership development. These prescriptions are based on the lessons learned over 8 years of teaching a class titled "Community Leadership." This class emphasizes experiential learning and revolves around service learning projects. The…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Leadership Training, Course Descriptions, Feedback (Response)
Craig, Judy A., Ed. – Advances in Education Research, 1998
This report provides peer-reviewed, scholarly research supported in whole or in part by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement through its educational research and development programs. It includes 13 previously published articles from selected refereed journals identifying the best research on community service learning. Section 1,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, College Faculty, College Students, Community Services