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Jiang, Xiaoyan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In response to the challenges in higher education in China and the need to advance the servant leadership theory and experiential learning theory developed in the West, the current study qualitatively explores how service-learning affects students' leadership development at universities in China. The purpose is to understand how experiential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Leadership Training, College Students
Rosemary Ann Shaver – ProQuest LLC, 2022
United States college graduates live and work in a rapidly changing and interdependent society (Benson et al., 2017; Komives & Wagner, 2017). Technological and other innovations make it possible for individuals to connect across international borders more than any other time in history (Milanovic, 2013; United Nations Human Development…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Student Participation
Gombin-Sperling, Jeremy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
International service learning programs have continued to rise in popularity across U.S. institutions of higher education as a way of offering students comprehensive formats to engage with communities in other countries, learn how social issues of inequality impact people around the world, and strengthen student learning on global issues. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Study Abroad
Noel B. Habashy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Education Abroad is often billed as a wonderful opportunity for international collaboration and enhanced intercultural understanding for students and community members alike. Unfortunately, the local individuals in contact with these programs often have little ability to share their perspectives and have their voices heard. Each year over 300,000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Community Attitudes
Kelly Elizabeth Franklin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Widespread consensus among the tourism and development studies literature suggests that higher education plays a key role in the achievement of sustainable tourism development. However, discussions on approaches to teaching sustainability in tourism at the higher education level are underdeveloped, especially in conflict-affected contexts. To…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Sustainable Development, Tourism, Higher Education
González López, Luis Gerardo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Service-learning is a form of experiential learning whereby students learn and develop through active participation in a carefully organized service that addresses the needs of the community. It is rooted in the reflective experiential traditions of Dewey, Kolb, and Freire. It provides students with opportunities for development in a variety of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Qualitative Research, Student Diversity
Nora McCook – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines literacy volunteer preparation historically and comparatively for two contemporary case study organizations: one that coordinated a university service learning/study abroad program and one that ran a family literacy program. The author reviews major contributions literacy studies has made to literacy theory and practice…
Descriptors: Literacy, Student Volunteers, Volunteer Training, Service Learning
Brown, Jill M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
There is a paucity of occupational therapy literature related to the professional development process that occurs when students participate in immersive, international servant leadership experiences in developing countries. A scarcity of literature exists on how such culturally rich experiences can influence the development of the participating…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Competence, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
Axlund McBride, RaeLyn A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Several scholars argue that higher education should play a central role in facilitating the development of interculturally competent, global citizens who participate actively and constructively in our interconnected world (e.g., Davies & Pike, 2009). However, little is known about if or how we are facilitating global citizenship development…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Service Learning, College Students, Global Approach
Law, Ying Lun Tommy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Hong Kong is in need of adequately trained educators and educational leaders to meet the needs of children who live there. The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) has been trying to meet those needs by offering a curriculum that goes beyond teaching content and subject knowledge by incorporating service learning opportunities. Service…
Descriptors: Mentors, Learning Experience, Service Learning, Teacher Education
Odongo, Rispa Achieng' – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The use of community service to promote learning and civic responsibility in higher education has blossomed since the 1980s. The problem addressed in this study was that although the X University initiated the required community service program in 2004, it had not assessed the effectiveness of the program from students' perspectives. Using Kolb…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Citizenship Education, Social Responsibility
Hetzell, Leah B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As calls for institutions of higher education to educate globally competent citizens have intensified over the last two decades, the field of international service learning (ISL) has responded resoundingly. ISL programs have been implemented at many institutions and there have been countless studies that demonstrate the great power for student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Reentry Students, Service Learning
Dalton, Kelly Mcgrath – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The urgent call to internationalize teacher education in response to the impact globalization presents in our nation's classrooms, also calls for a fundamental shift in how the field of teacher education provides opportunities of professional learning for teachers. Traditional models of teacher education often fail to develop teachers with the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Reynolds, Nora Pillard – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Given the tormented history of development projects around the globe and the fact that global service learning and engineering-for-development often engages students in development interventions, it is critically important to explore the impact of global service learning projects and partnerships not only on student learning, which has received…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Global Approach, Case Studies
Healey-Walsh, Judith – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Based on demographic shifts toward more diversity and increasing health care disparities in the United States, nursing educators have been called upon to find innovative pedagogies to teach cultural competence and social justice concepts. International service-learning programs (ISL) are proliferating, as there is evidence that these experiences…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Power Structure, Partnerships in Education, Nursing Education
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