ERIC Number: EJ950764
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010
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Sustained Dialogue and Civic Life: Post-College Impacts
Diaz, Ande; Perrault, Rachael
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v17 n1 p32-43 Fall 2010
This study examined the civic outcomes of the Sustained Dialogue model. Qualitative interviews investigated the perceived impacts of dialogue experience on post-graduate civic life, generating an inventory of 29 dialogue civic outcomes across five domains: 1) cognitions, 2) behaviors, 3) attitudes 4) skills, and 5) hopes and plans for the future. Results extend past research by finding that perceived dialogue impacts lasted into the post-college years and affected future hopes and plans. Additional impacts were identified: (1) across various civic arenas of society, and (2) a transformative "restringing" effect, in which participants reported they were changed or transformed in subtle, complex, and pervasive ways. (Contains 2 notes and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Citizenship Education, Models, College Graduates, Student Development, Group Activities, Conflict Resolution, Graduate Surveys, Service Learning, Interviews, Questionnaires, Educational Practices, Program Effectiveness, Intergroup Relations, Intergroup Education, Communication Strategies, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, Citizen Participation, Content Analysis
Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, University of Michigan. 1024 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3310. Tel: 734-647-7402; Fax: 734-647-7464; Web site: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mjcsl
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indiana; New Jersey; Virginia
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