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The Social Responsibility among Higher Education Students
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Berei, Emese Beáta – Education Sciences, 2020
The aim of this research is to emphasize the importance of education for the philanthropic responsibilities of students. The basic term of the explanatory research is corporate social responsibility, adapted for higher education institutions--the philanthropic responsibilities of students, their implication on charity organization memberships or…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, College Students, Student Volunteers, Student Motivation
"I Am an Engineer AND": A Mixed Methods Study of Socially Engaged Engineers
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Litchfield, Kaitlin; Javernick-Will, Amy – Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Background: Socially engaged engineering activities such as community development have grown rapidly in popularity. The engineers who participate in these activities seem more diverse and more broadly interested than the larger population of engineers in the United States. Purpose/Hypothesis: This article compares the personal attributes,…
Descriptors: Technical Occupations, Personality Traits, Engineering Education, Student Motivation
Engaged Learning and Peace Corps Service in Tanzania: An Autoethnography
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Darling, Brianna; Thorp, Laurie; Chung, Kimberly – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
The Peace Corps Masters International program offers students the opportunity to combine their Peace Corps service with their master's education. This article demonstrates how classroom learning strengthened the author's Peace Corps service in Tanzania, which in turn strengthened her master's thesis. Peace Corps supports an approach to community…
Descriptors: Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Service Learning
Build the Big Society on What We Know Works
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Low, John – Adults Learning, 2011
Hardly anyone can have failed to pick up on the recent flurry of stories in the national press about the Big Society, sparked off by Dame Elisabeth Hoodless's remarks that funds for volunteers are disappearing at an alarming rate, and that this is undermining the very idea of a "Big Society". At the same time, under the government's…
Descriptors: Community Services, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Community Development
Communities of Practice in a Voluntary Youth Organisation: Reaching for the Sky and Building Social Capital
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Chan, Bill; Short, Tom – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
The study is situated within a national youth organisation called the Australian Air League Inc (Air League). We examine the recent progress of the Air League in South Australia, starting as a loose network of volunteers engaged in a sporadic array of activities, to become a learning community that worked collaboratively and then developed further…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives
Improving Scottish Education: Making a Difference in Scotland's Communities--A Five Year Review of Community Learning and Development in Scotland
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Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2006
In May 2002, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) published the first self-evaluation framework for community learning and development (CLD) in Scotland. HM Inspectors used "How Good is Our Community Learning and Development?" (HGIOCLD?) to conduct a programme of inspections of local areas within all 32 local authorities. A…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Foreign Countries, Public Service