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Christian Compare; Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová; Irene Culcasi; Pilar Aramburuzabala; Cinzia Albanesi – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2025
Service-learning (SL) represents one of the actions for community engagement institutionalisation and a way to achieve the teaching and learning objectives of the university and answer local organisations' needs identified by the community. Studies on the benefits and impacts of service-learning experiences among community partners (rather than…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries, Community Organizations
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Huang, Cheng-Fang; Lei, Lih-Wei – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This article reports on the self-perceived impacts of service-learning experiences from the perspective of alumni who graduated from a technical university in Taiwan. Drawing on the alumni responses in a focus group interview, the study investigated how the respondents perceived the impacts of participation in a service-learning project. Findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Education, Technical Institutes, Alumni
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
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Valaitis, Ruta K.; Wahoush, Olive; Murray, Nancy; Isaacs, Sandy; Derbyshire, David; Semogas, Dyanne; Rolfe, Steven – SAGE Open, 2016
This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary undergraduate course embedded within a campus-community partnership initiative involving McMaster University School of Nursing, and three urban priority neighborhoods in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Students worked together with community residents and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, Nursing Education
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
Schuckman, Hugh Erik – ProQuest LLC, 2012
From President Kennedy's first announcement of a non-military US volunteer corps in 1961, the Peace Corps has been one of the preeminent government grassroots volunteer development agency. This study explores the history of the ambiguities inherent in this contention, pressure primarily stemming from the organization's role as both a governmental…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Voluntary Agencies, Foreign Countries, Case Studies