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Download full textThompson, Angela M. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2011
This paper shares the survey results of students' perceptions of the benefits of their experiences with service learning. The service learning experiences were related to children and their physical growth and development and/or to children and their health education. An open-ended questionnaire was sent to 376 graduated students (representing 11…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Children, Child Development
Peer reviewedStrage, Amy – College Student Journal, 2004
During the last several years, researchers have been garnering evidence concerning the benefits of service-learning, and urging its inclusion in the curricular mainstream. This study presents evidence that college students manifest long-lasting, if modest, academic benefits from participating in service-learning. The academic records of 477…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, College Students, Academic Records, Statistical Significance
Peer reviewedDunlap, Michelle R. – Journal of Experiential Education, 1998
Analyses of 22 reflection journals of students enrolled in a service-learning-based child-development course at Connecticut College revealed 85 themes. Themes concerning initial adjustments and rapport building, setting limits on child behavior, and closure issues are discussed and accompanied with journal excerpts. Sharing these reflections with…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Development, College Students, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedDunlap, Michelle R. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1998
Journals of 30 college students of child development engaged in community-based service learning in multicultural settings revealed three themes. Students: (1) articulated their own approaches or philosophies regarding racial issues; (2) expressed concerns about specific multicultural or race-related incidents; and (3) discussed the resources they…
Descriptors: Child Development, College Students, Cultural Pluralism, Higher Education
Anderson, Jeffrey B., Ed.; Swick, Kevin J., Ed.; Yff, Joost, Ed. – 2001
This book provides teacher educators, administrators, practicing teachers who work with preservice teachers, policymakers, and researchers with information on the conceptual, research, and application areas of service-learning in preservice teacher education. The collection of papers offers teacher educators' thoughts about ways to enhance the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Citizenship Education, College Faculty
