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DeBoer, Jennifer; Radhakrishnan, Dhinesh; Freitas, Claudio – Advances in Engineering Education, 2022
Displaced learners, uprooted because of conflict, poverty, or other major traumas, are often shut out of opportunities to learn engineering. At the same time, fragile contexts demand engineers' expertise, but experts and their engineered solutions are often called in from outside the community. In this article, we examine engineering learning as a…
Descriptors: Refugees, Homeless People, Authentic Learning, Engineering Education
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Oberhauser, Ann M.; Daniels, Rita – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2017
This article examines intercultural aspects of global service learning (GSL) focused on gender and sustainable development in rural Tanzania. The discussion draws from critical development and postcolonial feminist approaches to examine how GSL addresses globalization, social histories, and political economies of development. The empirical…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Case Studies, Transformative Learning, Gender Differences
Whitley, Meredith Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Over the past 25 years, there has been a call for change within American higher education, with an increasing number of foundations, national organizations, and individual researchers pushing for institutions of higher education to become more involved with the surrounding communities and American society (Campus Compact, 2011; Glass &…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, Leaders, Leadership