Effecting Change through Community Research and Action: The Role of Service-Learning

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Research

Book Review: Promoting Community Renewal through Civic Literacy and Service Learning

NASPA Journal ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael H. Persons ◽  
David Lisman
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Community Renewal ◽  
Academic Instruction ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Government ◽  
Civic Literacy

This is an optimistic, and useful, book written at a pessimistic time. In an era when the nation faces many social problems - including alienation from the government and work, the fragmentation of the family, and an expanding materialism - this book promoting civic literacy approaches to service learning and seeks to help educators in their efforts to redefine the role of civics in contemporary society. The civic literacy approach to service learning is defined as pedagogy that combines community service and academic instruction and that focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsiblity. The editors challenge community colleges to act as catalysts for a national movement of community renewal, suggesting that they may be our best hope for finding ways to solve our social problems.

scholarly journals Role of Reflection in Moderating the Relationship between Service-learning and Civic Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iqbal Ahmad ◽  
Hamdan Said ◽  
Syed Shafeq Syed Mansor ◽  
Mahani Mokhtar ◽  
Faizah Abd Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Development ◽  
The Relationship

Reducing Academic Achievement Gaps: The Role of Community Service and Service-Learning

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Scales ◽  
Eugene C. Roehlkepartain ◽  
Marybeth Neal ◽  
James C. Kielsmeier ◽  
Peter L. Benson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Achievement Gaps

scholarly journals Role of Emotional Entropy and Ethnocentric Paradigms in International Service-Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (Winter) ◽  
pp. 13-46
Author(s):  
Christine Cress ◽  
Thomas Van Cleave
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Transformational Learning ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
American Student ◽  
Pedagogical Model ◽  
International Service Learning ◽  
International Service ◽  
Global Agency

Transformational learning in international service-learning experiences can by stymied by cultural ignorance and culture shock. Cognitive dissonance and emotional entropy are especially salient in American student encounters in India. Based upon three program years of data a pedagogical model for dismantling ethnocentric paradigms supports students’ development of culturally-contextualized global agency development.

Developing the Role of ‘Values’ Within Information and Communication Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
John Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Values Education ◽  
School Communities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Reciprocal Value

This chapter investigates the Schools Intergenerational Nurturing and Learning (SIGNAL) project at Liverpool Hope University and its impact on communities of learning within some of the most deprived areas of the United Kingdom. Embracing the wide aims of Citizenship Education in England, SIGNAL encompasses intergenerational and partnership activities, volunteerism, values education, and entrepreneurial learning shaped to assist with the unique issues faced by diverse school communities. Central to the project is the engagement of service-learning (SL) focussed student teachers, and their use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Whereas the majority of research about SL investigates its value to participating students (Eyler & Giles, 1999, 2002), less documentation can be found demonstrating its value to recipients. This chapter will look at the reciprocal value of SL projects utilising ICT for school communities, drawing its research from past projects delivered across Liverpool since 1999 and celebrated at www.schoolsinteractive.co.uk.

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