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Jia, Xiaokai – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Student reflection plays an essential role in service-learning projects to help students prepare for their service, process their experience, and reevaluate their experience to gain new understanding and appreciation. However, instructors encounter various challenges when integrating reflections into service-learning. Given the wide variety of…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Reflection, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
Christopher Iverson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explores the effects of community engagement on college writers years after completing first-year composition courses with service-learning partnerships. Since the 1990's, scholarship has connected service-learning pedagogy and the gains that student writers stand to enjoy when writing for audiences beyond the classroom and purposes…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Instruction, Rhetoric
Simmons, Shelanda Ferrell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Examining adult learners' perceptions of effective teaching in career and technical education is needed to enhance the principal objective of refining learning value is determining acceptable teaching practices for the student (Davies & Wilson, 2020). In addition, this subject is worth investigating to highlight the social inequalities that…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Instructional Effectiveness, Vocational Education
Seibles, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2018
At Southern College (pseudonym), a liberal arts college in South Carolina, students were enrolled in an introductory civic engagement course. The purpose of this action research study was to examine how an introductory civic engagement course influenced students' perspectives on civic engagement. Additionally, the research focused on how a civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Introductory Courses, Liberal Arts
Singletary, Joanna Lynn Bush – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study evaluated the relationship of environmental service-learning on environmental literacy in undergraduates. The subjects were 36 undergraduates at a small liberal arts university enrolled in an environmental biology course. To determine the role of environmental service-learning on college students' environmental knowledge,…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Environmental Education, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Smith, Kathy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
When service-learning began to gain prominence as a legitimate academic pedagogy in the early 1990's, it was believed that through intensive service experiences, students developed a greater understanding of themselves, felt empowered to make a difference in their community, made a connection to course material, and made a commitment to continue…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Learning Experience, Public Service, Generational Differences