After taking over a course on adolescent learning theory, two professors recognized the need for radical change -- specifically with regard to the ethical considerations of a required project that involved interviews with middle level learners. The interviews, embedded within a service-learning assignment for this undergraduate course, were…

Purpose: This study aims to advance the understanding of service-learning within the context of Malaysian higher education, employing multiple qualitative approaches to source information relating to student perspectives whilst critically analysing findings through triangulation. The study explores how service-learning is conceptualized,…

Service learning, as a practice that links community service with learning activities, is gaining popularity in teacher education as an experiential educational approach. However, a deeper understanding of teachers' motivation in service learning is required to improve teacher retention and commitment. Utilising the Factors Influencing Teaching…

Undergraduate students majoring in child and family development (CHFD) at a southeastern public doctoral/research university were required to complete 14 hours of service learning in a local after school program as part of the course requirements in a class titled "Youth Development." The course is a required course for majors and…

We examined the impact of international service-learning (ISL) on students' development of intercultural sensitivity. Participants were undergraduate students of a Hong Kong university (N = 132) who enrolled in a credit-bearing ISL course with service projects in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Mainland China. The research is primarily qualitative but…

This article explores how college students' beliefs about reciprocity are shaped through community engagement, particularly in the context of community-engaged research. Recent studies highlight the central role of reciprocity in students' engagement experiences; students not only seek reciprocal relationships and meaningful impact, but also…

Using survey results from 805 alumni of a large public university in Hong Kong, this paper examines how alumni's self-reported learning outcomes from a mandatory academic service learning program relate to their continual civic engagement in a multiple logistic regression framework. The findings reveal that more than two years after graduation,…

What do students want every student affairs practitioner to know about service initiatives? This article is written by current and recent college students deeply invested in community service. The article offers a call to action to increase alignment between student needs and wants and the realities of community service programming. Serving as…

Alternative break programs have long supported student growth, community engagement, and civic learning, yet Gen Z students--many who are deeply invested in justice and activism--tend to find these programs misaligned with their values. This chapter reimagines alternative breaks through seven strategies that center justice, reciprocity, and…

Numerous studies emphasize the impact of community service on college students by pointing out its positive correlations to establishing a sense of belonging among 1st-year students. However, despite many colleges' best efforts, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 disrupted the normal college experience. In this study, we utilized a…

Multilingual students learning English face changes in developing intercultural communicative competence outside the classroom. This Classroom Exploration, informed by frameworks of intercultural communicative competence, willingness to communicate, and cultural adaptation, explores the use of reflection comics in a service-learning course for…

Resilience--the ability to persist, bounce back, and achieve, despite setbacks or challenges--is an important predictive and protective factor for university students' personal and academic success. Qualitative research at one large U.S. land-grant university investigated faculty and student perceptions of how and why academic service-learning…

This study focuses on a pivotal discursive interaction with a university instructor and "Roseanna," an undergraduate situated as a writing mentor in a service-learning course centered around an after-school writing club with Black fifth graders. Course instructors sought to humanize pedagogical practices by establishing an asset-based…

This research moves beyond the conventional students-as-partners discourse to explore student-student partnership practices in higher education, addressing research gaps regarding such partnerships in inter-institutional and non-Western contexts. Through a qualitative study of a student-initiated virtual service-learning project which involved…

Service-learning (S-L) has gained recognition as a high-impact pedagogical practice, with electronic Service-Learning (eS-L) emerging as a model that blends online and in-person instruction with service experiences. While interest in eS-L is growing, large-scale studies on student outcomes remain limited, particularly research that examines design…