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Jie Min Ho; Ivy S.H. Hii; Ka Yii Yip – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to introduce a theoretical model to investigate students' ratings of their sense of belonging (SB) following their experience of a service learning activity. Specifically, this study examines the relationship between individual service learning components (i.e. practical skills (PS), interpersonal skills, citizenship and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Student Participation, Citizenship Responsibility
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Ngo, Truc Thanh; Chase, Bradley – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Environmental sustainability and social contexts are becoming increasingly important concepts. The infusion of sustainability and humanitarian engineering (HE) into the academic core curriculum is often challenging. This study aims to provide an understanding of students' perceptions and attitudes toward the incorporation of active…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Projects, Active Learning, Sustainability
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Konieczny, Piotr; Eckert, Kenneth – English in Education, 2022
Wikipedia is one of the most important innovations of the Internet age and has been analysed and criticised within higher educational settings for how it is utilised by students or academics for essay assignments or research. Less work has been done on how content writing for Wikipedia may be deployed as an instructional tool and its pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Liberal Arts, Case Studies, Collaborative Writing
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Mária Jármai, Erzsébet; Palányi, Ildikó Zsupanekné – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
The economic importance of voluntary work has been exceedingly appreciated in the last few decades. This is not surprising at all, because it is highly profitable according to the related estimated data. There are 115,9 million people doing voluntary work only in Europe, which means that they would create the world's 7th biggest economy with EUR…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Volunteers, Labor Market, Labor Force Development
O'Connor, C. Richele – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the perceptions of university students serving as volunteers in an oncology ward at a local children's hospital. The implementation of this project was guided by the body of literature regarding service learning. Data were collected from the five students using a structured interview and was…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Tutors, Hospitalized Children, Childhood Needs
Alfeld, Corinne; Stone, James R., III; Aragon, Steven R.; Hansen, David M.; Zirkle, Christopher; Connors, James; Spindler, Matt; Romine, Rebecca Swinburne; Woo, Hui-Jeong – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2007
In addition to hands-on learning in classrooms and work-related activities such as co-op, many CTE programs offer a career-focused student organization, known as a Career and Technical Student Organization, or CTSO. CTSOs have been touted as developing such characteristics as leadership and employability skills in students; however, there is…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Career Education, Student Organizations, Student Motivation