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Eunjeong Park; Youngjoo Yi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
Electronic service (e-service) learning has considerable potential to promote engagement and interactions between people by liberating spatial constraints. Due to the pandemic situation, ordinary face-to-face service learning was impossible, but there was an urgent need to support adolescent English learners in communities. In accordance with the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Electronic Learning, Service Learning
McIlrath, Lorraine, Ed.; Lyons, Ann, Ed.; Munck, Ronaldo, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Higher Education and Civic Engagement provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education. It explores teaching and learning, research, and service in a range of international contexts. This book is essential reading for higher education leaders, faculty, administrators, and members of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Organizational Culture, Service Learning
Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Townsend, Elizabeth – Principal Leadership, 2010
In Our Global Village is a project that originated when Barbara Cervone of What Kids Can Do traveled to Kambi Ya Simba, Tanzania, and spent time with the students at Awet Secondary School. Although the students were skeptical, Cervone persuaded them to write a book about their village, their lifestyles, and the challenges that the inhabitants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Local History, Collaborative Writing
Porfilio, Bradley, Ed.; Hickman, Heather, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to the volume's international focus, the authors also…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Political Science, Global Education, Altruism
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Chill, Abigail S. – Social Education, 2009
Is the anticipated move of a school to a new location a source of curious excitement and optimism or an occasion for trepidation, recrimination, and anxiety? As plans to relocate the Walworth Barbour American International School in Israel from Kfar Shmaryahu (its location for over 40 years) to Even Yehuda became more immediate, teachers and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, International Schools
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Haimendorf, Max; Kestner, Jacob – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2008
This article, which forms part of the policy booklet "Lessons from the Front" written by participants and Ambassadors of the Teach First scheme, argues that educational outcomes are often adversely affected by the size and structure of many urban complex schools. Rather than multiplying the efforts of teachers, too often the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Service Learning
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Carrington, Suzanne; Saggers, Beth – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
A social-cultural theory of difference informed the development of a university unit on inclusive education with a focus on broadening students' experience and understanding about the backgrounds and values of people in society. One of the aims of the unit was to "develop and work within legal and ethical frameworks that promote diversity,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inclusive Schools, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers
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Ferfolja, Tania – Teaching Education, 2009
In a world increasingly globalised, it is crucial that preservice teachers are equipped with a range of pedagogical knowledges, understandings and practices related to diversity and difference. This paper reports on the implementation and learning outcomes of a teacher preparation initiative in an Australian university called Refugee Action…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Refugees
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Sider, Kenneth – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2008
A real-life experience is a "moving force" that can be part of the elementary social studies curriculum. This article discusses an experiential learning about India and describes how the author integrates the arts and service learning in his third grade classroom. It also describes class activities that enhance social studies curriculum…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Indians, Altruism, Service Learning
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Ryan, Mary; Carrington, Suzanne; Selva, Gitta; Healy, Annah – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
The outcomes of a two-pronged "real-world" learning project, which aimed to expand the views of pre-service teachers about learning, pedagogy and diversity, will be discussed in this paper. Seventy-two fourth-year and 22 first-year students, enrolled in a Bachelor of Education degree in Queensland, Australia, were engaged in community…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Student Teacher Attitudes, Consciousness Raising
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2012
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
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Cambra-Fierro, Jesus; Cambra-Berdun, Jesus – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The objective of the paper is the development and validation of scales to assess reflective learning. Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on a literature review plus in-classroom experience. For the scale validation process, exploratory and confirmatory analyses were conducted, following proposals made by Anderson and…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Service Learning, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Handa, Vicente; Tippins, Deborah; Thomson, Norman; Bilbao, Purita; Morano, Lourdes; Hallar, Brittan; Miller, Kristen – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2008
Dubbed a "dialogue of life," community immersion in preservice science-teacher education aims at providing a true-to-life and empowering opportunity for prospective science teachers (both elementary and secondary) to become active participants in community life through field and service-learning experiences. It consists of a three-unit…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Fiehn, Julia – Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2007
Citizenship education is an important part of the development of young people. By enabling them to learn about their rights and responsibilities, to understand how society works, and develop knowledge and understanding of social and political issues, citizenship prepares them for dealing with the challenges they face in life. Through citizenship…
Descriptors: High School Students, Foreign Countries, Values Education, Citizenship Education
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