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Chelsea Redger-Marquardt; Jean A. Patterson – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
Atypical in Alternative Break (AB) practice, an intentionally connected course was examined to understand students' perceptions of their semester-long experience. Using qualitative narrative analysis, authors analyze data from 20 AB participants to evaluate student perceptions and experiential outcomes before, during, and after their service trips…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Place Based Education, Citizenship Education
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Camus, Rina Marie; Ngai, Grace; Kwan, Kam Por; Yau, Jessie Ho-Yin; Chan, Stephen – Innovative Higher Education, 2021
Reflection is fundamental in experiential pedagogies, and many studies have been carried out to investigate its impact and benefits on student learning outcomes. However, the concept of reflection is not well understood. In this study, we focus on the concept of reflection and ensuing approaches to it in service-learning, an experiential pedagogy…
Descriptors: Reflection, Service Learning, Higher Education, College Faculty
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Scheffelaar, Aukelien; Blignaut-van Westrhenen, Nadine; Labrie, Nanon H. M.; Pittens, Carina A. C. M.; Zweekhorst, Marjolein B. M. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
Community service-learning (CSL) is implemented mainly in smallscale classes. To date, little is known about how large-scale CSL courses could best be designed. This study seeks to identify benefits and potential strategies for designing large-scale CSL courses. A qualitative multiple case study was performed of three large-scale university…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Service Learning, Volunteers, Higher Education
Katie Macdonald; Jessica Vorstermans; Eric Hartman; Richard Kiely – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2022
This outro is a generative collective conversation between emerging and established scholars in the field of Global Service Learning, at this moment in pandemic time. We met, on zoom, to think expansively about what these pandemic times of rupture have opened up for us in our scholarship and practice. Our orientation was towards reflexivity and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Service Learning, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Bratt, Sharon – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2020
Educational action research bridges the gap between theory and practice; where the learning design is the proposed hypothesis and the classroom is where it is field-tested by the teacher as researcher (McKernan, 2007; Stenhouse, 1975). Through this lens we see inquiry as a deepened understanding of one's own practice. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Curriculum Development, Data, Visual Aids
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Rees, Amanda; Hawthorne, Timothy; Scott, Dorris; Solís, Patricia; Spears, Eric – Journal of Geography, 2021
Community geography (CG) pedagogy sits at the intersection of three systematic shifts in higher education: desires to expand engagement with society; the evolution of student-centered, evidence-based instruction; and, the desire to diversify voices and knowledge production in the academy. Since the 1960s geographers have regularly partnered with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Student Centered Learning
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Tijsma, Geertje; Hilverda, Femke; Scheffelaar, Aukelien; Alders, Sven; Schoonmade, Linda; Blignaut, Nadine; Zweekhorst, Marjolein – Educational Research, 2020
Background: To prepare students to become productive 21st century citizens, universities have to be more engaged with society. Shifting towards community service learning (CSL) enables students to participate in, and reflect on, services that both benefit the public and also contribute to their own learning. There has been considerable research…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Citizen Participation, Service Learning, Instructional Design
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Arends, Jessica – Journal of Transformative Education, 2014
As scholars, we are responsible for examining the academic and pedagogical traditions from which our current approaches have developed. This includes the historical establishment of and reliance upon rationality which postmodernist scholarship argues unconsciously guides our educational motives and processes. Rationality is especially relevant to…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Reflection, Service Learning, Higher Education
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McKee, Ravyn – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This paper presents a review of twelve studies on the effectiveness of international service-learning projects. The purpose of this review is to analyze, through the use of themes, the goals and issues affecting outcomes of such programs in order to evaluate the current uses of international service-learning within multiple fields. International…
Descriptors: Service Learning, International Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reflection
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Paras, Andrea; Carignan, Michael; Brenner, Ashley; Hardy, Jane; Malmgren, Jodi; Rathburn, Melanie – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2019
With the proliferation of short-term study abroad programs at institutions of higher education, there is a need for more rigorous assessment of how these programs contribute to intercultural learning. This article presents a multi-institutional comparative study of students' intercultural learning in six short-term study abroad programs in Canada…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Higher Education, Comparative Education, Cultural Awareness
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Stanlick, Sarah; Sell, Marla – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2016
To support the work of service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) being done in a high-quality, sustainable way, ("Combining Service and Learning: A Resource Book for Community and Public Service"), Kendall offered three Principles of Good Practice: (1) integrating service-learning programs into the central mission and goals of the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Institutional Mission, Power Structure
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Wood-Nartker, Jeanneane; Hinck, Shelly; Hullender, Ren – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Assessment and evaluation practices within honors programs have attracted considerable attention within the honors academic community, e.g., the spring/summer 2006 volume of the "Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council." Calls for carefully created and constructed assessment activities within honors programs have met with mixed…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Skill Development
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Ka, Carol Ma Hok; Fung, Chad Chan Wing; Hoi, Issac Tse Pak – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2019
Use of service-learning is burgeoning among higher education institutions in Hong Kong and expanding in Asia. The positive student outcomes that have been reported in Western society, however, are not as widely recognized in Asian society. Asian institutions of higher education need a standardized measurement of outcomes that will help refine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Higher Education, Program Development
Bloomquist, Catherine – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
Despite the popularity of service learning, it is sometimes criticized for its lack of academic rigor. This piece provides a counterpoint to that argument by describing a LIS service-learning course from the student's perspective. I focus particularly on the role of reflection, a key component in service-learning courses that helps to…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Reflection, Transformative Learning, Information Science Education
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Kronick, Robert F.; Cunningham, Robert B. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2013
Civic engagement, service-learning, and university-assisted community schools are strong forces in making universities, as anchor institutions, engaged and responsible within their spheres of influence. By helping solve social problems, universities engage in the highest form of learning, come to understand social issues and problems, and escape…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Service Learning, Higher Education, Social Problems
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