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Promoting Student Learning through Diasporic Foodways: Community-Oriented Pedagogy through Films
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Michelle Tan, Yuen Sze; Owen Lo, Chih-Shen; Alharbi, Mashael – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This case examined five students' experiences of participating in a film-mediated community-based discourse about local Asian Canadian communities, where students viewed and created documentary films in a fourth-year English course that focused on diasporic foodways. Phenomenographic perspectives guided an analysis of the students' experiences;…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Food, Asians, Immigrants
Transformational Learning and Community Development: Early Reflections on Professional and Community Engagement at Macquarie University
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Rawlings-Sanaei, Felicity; Sachs, Judyth – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) at Macquarie University offers undergraduate students experiential learning opportunities with local, regional, and international partners. In PACE projects, students work toward meeting the partner's organizational goals while they develop their capabilities, learn through the process of engagement,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Transformative Learning, Community Development, Foreign Countries
Service-Learning: Thinking outside the Box
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Deeley, Susan J. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Service-learning is a form of experiential learning that combines academic coursework with voluntary service in the community. There is a dearth of critical analysis of the effects of service-learning. To address this issue, this practitioner research aimed to explore and understand its effects. An inductive approach, using qualitative and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Focus Groups, Experiential Learning, Comparative Analysis
Putting the Learning in Service Learning: From Soup Kitchen Models to the Black Metropolis Model
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Manley, Theodoric, Jr.; Buffa, Avery S.; Dube, Caleb; Reed, Lauren – Education and Urban Society, 2006
Results of the Black Metropolis Model (BMM) of service learning are analyzed and illustrated in this article to explain how to "put the learning in service learning." There are many soup kitchens or nontransforming models of service learning where students are asked to serve needy populations but internalize and learn little about the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, High School Students, College Students
Linking Educators' Professional Development to Workplace/Community Learning Experiences. TeachNET Educational Brief.
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Sargent, Thomas A. – 2000
Mindful of the need for quality professional development and its characteristics, large numbers of educators are self-selecting to participate in workplace/community learning (WCL) experiences. Viewed as an alternative to less desirable forms of traditional professional development, WCL displays characteristics of high-quality professional…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Check Lists, Community Education, Educational Benefits
Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education. New Edition.
Wilson, Arthur L., Ed.; Hayes, Elisabeth R., Ed. – 2000
This handbook presents the perspectives of more than 60 leading authorities on the study and practice of adult and continuing education. The following are among the papers included: "A Selective History of Adult Education Handbooks" (A.L. Wilson, E.R. Hayes); "The Concept of Critically Reflective Practice" (Stephen D.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning