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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"Service learning."”.
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Service learning today: The perceptions of teachers and service-learning professionals
<p>This study explores the experience of service learning in schools today. Guiding this inquiry was the question, “How do service-learning professionals approach, implement, and perceive service learning, and to what degree do these elements affect how they collaborate with others?” To this end, I …
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Service Learning- It’s Elementary! Teacher initiated service learning at an independent school
<p>Service learning involves specific and intentional academic and learning goals that are achieved through service to a community and reflection. Often the responsibility for ensuring that service learning in schools is meaningful and successful falls to teacher leaders with little specific …
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Service-Learning Faculty Perceptions
<p>This study examined how service-learning faculty's perceptions are influenced by their experience with service learning, and how service learning affects faculty's personal and professional perceptions and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 130 participants at higher education …
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Experiments in service learning
Service learning, an educational method that involves the application of academic work to projects that benefit under-served communities, was explored in two complementary forms. First, the development of an alternative form of charcoal made from sugarcane agricultural waste is discussed, including …
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SERVICE LEARNING: AN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS APPROACH
… from interviews of the impact logics have on service learning, this research has shown that understanding institutional logics aid in the implementation of transformative pedagogy by better understanding the role of competing logics. This researcher provides three recommendations for medical …
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Intercultural development in global service-learning
… effects of participation in a six-month global service-learning program in the intercultural development of a group of students. The students under consideration herein participated in the 2009 program year of the Grace University EDGE Program, which took place in Mali, West Africa.</p> <p>The …
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Service learning: Students benefitting the community
Service is a powerful tool for the development of youth. It transforms the young person from a passive recipient to an active provider. When combined with formal education, service becomes a method of learning known as "Service Learning." Service learning enables teachers to employ a variety of …
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Community- based service-learning through reflective practice.
… Centre for Abused Women and Children for the service-learning trial run of this Gender- Based Violence module in 2003. A qualitative, contextual, and descriptive design was therefore used to provide rich information from in-depth descriptions of students’ perceptions and experiences with …
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Service learning : a vehicle to reflective thinking
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Associations of Civic Attitudes in Service Learning
… through personal connections with the community. Service learning is an effective method of increasing citizenship participation and civic responsibility by incorporating community service activities with academic coursework. This study used survey research to examine the civic attitude scores of …
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Promoting emotional intelligence in adolescence through service-learning
… (EI) development, through the implementation of service-learning curricula, in adolescents ages 13-18. An interrupted time series with non-equivalent multi-group design was used for this study. This design included multiple pre-tests, an application of a treatment, and post-tests at varying time …
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Service-Learning and Jesuit Pedagogy: A Critical Analysis
<p>Service-learning and Jesuit pedagogy have each been the subject of numerous studies and journal articles, particularly throughout the last 40 years. The purpose of this study was to connect these two bodies of research and identify fundamental characteristics that must be present in order for …
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Service-learning and reflection in dental hygiene education
<p>"Service-Learning (SL) is widely used in education today. Little is known about the use of SL pedagogy on dental hygiene students. SL in dental hygiene is an ideal teaching medium and use frequently; however, few studies have specifically studied if it is being done effectively. This study aimed …
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The impact of service-learning on cognitive development
Providing students with service opportunities as an instructional tool has recently gained the attention of educators and legislative policy-makers. Participation in service activity has been positively correlated with attitudinal outcomes and the development of a responsible citizenry. While many …
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Investigation of International Service Learning in Engineering Education
International service learning (ISL) has been integrated into engineering education and has become increasingly more popular in co-curricular experiences. While prior research investigates each of these avenues of ISL, we have not investigated how these experiences compare to one another in terms …
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Towards an Anthropology of Service-Learning: An Exploration of the Impact of a Cross-Cultural, Service-Learning Experience on Health Professional Students
… rotation, better described as a cross-cultural, service-learning program, in the Dominican Republic. The program both incorporates and extends beyond traditional service-learning models by emphasizing cultural immersion, community service, and reflective practices rooted in Jesuit spiritual …
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Perceptions of Individual Experiences in a Service Learning Course
Service Learning is an instructional approach that has been gaining national attention in the past several years. The concept was supported by John Dewey as early as 1915 but not given serious attention by educational leaders until about 30 years ago. Currently, a growing number of schools across …
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Service learning and student leadership through environmentally immersive writing
… examined the impact of environmentally immersive service learning on a focused cluster of the NJASK, self-perception of leadership, attitude toward the environment, and student ability to define and articulate the benefits of service learning. The study compared the 2008-2009 New Jersey Assessment …
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Critical reflection and the savior role in service learning
<p>"Service-learning is an emergent high-impact practice in higher education. Research suggests that universities have increasingly incorporated service-learning projects into their curriculum, which have facilitated deeper approaches to learning where students can achieve greater content learning, …
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The relationship of service learning and college student development
… was to explore the relationship of the use of service learning in teaching and selected dimensions of college student development. The research was guided by the question, "To what extent do three levels of experience in community service, including participation with and without reflection …
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