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Yung, Betty; Yu, Kam-por; Leung, Barbara Y. P.; Chun, Jack – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
For a service-learning course focusing on poverty, students from a Hong Kong university took a 12-day trip to engage in various poverty alleviation services in Cambodia. This course was border-crossing on five dimensions: (1) urban versus rural, (2) developed versus developing world location, (3) classroom versus practical and experiential, (4)…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Empathy, Moral Values, Developing Nations
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Sigler, Tracey Honeycutt; Tyran, Kristi Lewis – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2017
Service-learning helps students learn about course concepts through applying them in a setting outside the classroom. The experiences provided by service-learning create conditions that can lead to changes in the learner's brain. In this paper, we provide support for this assertion from research in brain-based learning with suggestions of how to…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Brain, Experiential Learning, Neurosciences
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Wheat, Laura S.; Szepe, Arden; West, Nathan B.; Riley, Kertesha B.; Gibbons, Melinda M. – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2019
Limited research exists on the role service learning can play in helping students understand loss and grief. Through semi-structured interviews with students and instructors, online surveys, and course feedback, this qualitative case study examined the experiences of 15 university students in an outreach course working with grieving K-12 students.…
Descriptors: Grief, Service Learning, Role, Student Attitudes