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Jotia, Agreement L.; Biraimah, Karen L.; Kurtz, Brianna A. – Theory Into Practice, 2020
This work explores how short-term study abroad programs in emerging nations might be redesigned to become more beneficial to host institutions and communities, while providing more responsive, transformative learning experiences for students, and analyze how study abroad programs, as well as follow-on grant and research programs, can also be the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Transformative Learning, Developing Nations, Developed Nations
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Haddix, Marcelle – Theory Into Practice, 2015
The goals of teacher education must evolve beyond the teaching of strategies and methods toward a process for beginning teachers' critical interrogation of their social locations and the ways they engage with the realities of teaching and learning. One way that this is accomplished is by incorporating opportunities for community engagement…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Service Learning, School Community Programs
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Hatcher, Julie A.; Studer, Morgan L. – Theory Into Practice, 2015
Developing good citizens is an historic role for higher education (Sullivan & Rosin, 2008) and the emergence of service-learning as a pedagogical strategy has heightened attention to the intentional educational objectives to be addressed in higher education. This article examines the role of service-learning in developing philanthropic values…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support, Values Education
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Kinloch, Valerie; Nemeth, Emily; Patterson, Ashley – Theory Into Practice, 2015
This article describes a critical service-learning project that resulted from an educational partnership among a national teachers' union, a local teachers' union, and a major research university. The partnership-funded by a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve program--focused on professional development…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Youth Opportunities, Youth Programs, Urban Youth