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Kniffin, Lori E.; Shaffer, Timothy J.; Tolar, Mary H. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2016
Service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) practitioner-scholars--meaning all who do the work of SLCE with a commitment to integrating practice and study--find avenues to this work in a variety of ways. Through custom-made pathways, graduate students are forced to articulate and define their place in the academy, which can enhance voice,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Learner Engagement, Graduate Students, Experiential Learning
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Grabbatin, Brian; Fickey, Amanda – Journal of Geography, 2012
The rise of service-learning in higher education has been critiqued as little more than community service that encourages students to "do good," but fails to generate original scholarship or social change. In this article, we argue that service-learning gives geographers the opportunity to challenge these critiques, by demonstrating the practical…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Research Methodology, Social Change, Service Learning
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Kenworthy, Amy L. – Journal of Management Education, 2010
Negotiation is one of the most popular elective business courses offered across tertiary educational programs today. Yet, in many undergraduate and graduate programs, the "practice" of negotiation takes place solely through role-plays and simulations. The purpose of this article is to provide a "how to" template for negotiation…
Descriptors: Business Education, Service Learning, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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Roberts, Kathleen Glenister – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2008
This article considers the state of service and experiential learning initiatives in higher education, especially in Catholic universities. Concluding that the Catholic mission of service, education, moral values, world concerns, and ecumenism can be integrated into student experience, the essay offers a model of service ethnography. Service…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Church Related Colleges, Catholics, Moral Values
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Newell, William H. – About Campus, 1999
Defines integrative learning, a concept that can help create more potent learning environments. Suggests this type of learning can realize potential pedagogical innovations such as collaborative learning, service learning, learning communities, and residential learning. (Author/JDM)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, Experiential Learning, Service Learning
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Sandy, Leo R. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1998
Discusses the concept of permeability as knowledge flow into and out of the classroom and applies it to three college courses taught by the author at Plymouth State College (New Hampshire). Experiential knowledge comes into the classroom through interviews, guest speakers, and panel presentations, and flows out through service-learning students…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Epistemology, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Ponzio, Richard; McKenna, Marian J. – 2002
This paper argues that academic service learning at the undergraduate level provides an accessible and powerful crucible for exploring a career in teaching while also providing needed literacy experiences for children. Undergraduate service learning programs can include direct and authentic experiences that enroll, engage, and stimulate both…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Inquiry
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Edwards, Jennifer – Investigating, 2003
Raises the notion of service learning, which is defined as a method of helping students develop their own learning through active participation in thoughtfully organized service experience. Explores the use of science as the curriculum and service learning as the methodology to reach students and improve science instruction. (KHR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
Simonelli, Jeanne – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 2000
Addresses issues of college liability and logistics in off-campus experiential programs, especially programs abroad with service learning components. Warns that liability problems, e.g., safety issues, legal concerns, and ethical responsibility to the local community, can threaten program viability and overshadow learning objectives. Urges…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Ethics, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
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Kendall, Jane C. – Journal of Cooperative Education, 1991
This introduction to a special issue reviews the community service movement in the 1960s-70s, current calls for youth involvement in community service, and the semantic differences related to the term "service learning." (SK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, College Students, Educational Philosophy, Experiential Learning
White, Timothy J. – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 2000
Compares the service learning experience of college students to the traditional social science technique of participant observation. Suggests that service learning allows students to test theories through personal observation in a service setting and experience the logic and practice of social research. Uses examples from the Xavier University…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Participant Observation
Agricultural Education Magazine, 2001
Twelve theme articles discuss service learning and reflection in agricultural education, student perspective on service learning, Future Farmers of America, character education, intergenerational projects, agricultural communications, and service learning as advocacy. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Communications, Experiential Learning, Intergenerational Programs
Soukup, Paul A. – 1996
Experiential education, and more specifically service-learning, connects students with a different kind of education. Moreover, service-learning provides the opportunity for students to listen to voices seldom heard in academia. Experiential learning and service-learning have taken on an important role in contemporary schooling and are being…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services, Experiential Learning
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Katula, Richard A.; Threnhauser, Elizabeth – Communication Education, 1999
Reviews the movement toward an expanded classroom through experientially based curricular innovations such as cooperative education, internships, study abroad, and service learning, which are intended to bring concrete experience into the learning model, allowing students to apply classroom concepts and complete the learning process. Provides an…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Curriculum, Educational Principles, Experiential Learning
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Simmons, Linda – Inquiry, 1998
Provides an overview of service learning: definitions, reasons for including service learning as an instructional strategy, ways to maintain academic vigor, grading principles, risks and rewards, and adaptability. Includes students' written comments, details on Northern Virginia Community College's widespread use of service learning in 18…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Colleges, Community Services, Educational Strategies
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