Add to ORKGEngagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities. Grand university mission statements (including our own) often convey a “commitment to community service.” While our rhetoric is lofty, how do we actually commit ourselves to pursuing this objective? How might we truly “engage” a community of scholars with the larger community? Is “true” service-learning sustainable in a college classroom? This paper addresses one method of engagement that exists on our campus: one section of the Core Curriculum “Human Behavior in Perspective,” has been transformed into a service-learning course. This course integrates the model of service-learning into the educational curriculum. In practical terms, this cou...
Higher education has been increasing its focus on service as a way to make connections. One effectiv...
Service-learning in higher education has gained increasing atten-tion in recent years, but at most u...
The demand on universities across America to produce civic-minded students is ever increasing. These...
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Service learning is a process that is able to take what students learn in the classroom and morph th...
This thesis takes issue with current models of community engagement and service learning that do not...
Service-learning is a valuable pedagogical tool to integrate service to community with classroom lea...
Institutionalizing service-learning can be a rich and complex process. The following ideas about sus...
Over the past twenty years, there has been a steady increase in the number of students involved in c...
Implementing service-learning is challenging in light of issues such as changes in student demograph...
Service learning as a teaching methodology has agrowing following among faculty in higher edu-cation...
The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningfu...
Abstract??Much of the reform in higher education is focused on the teaching and learning process wit...
Incorporating service learning opportunities into classroom instruction has been well documented as ...
Presented by Ira Silver and a panel of students. This session explores how classroom instruction and...
Higher education has been increasing its focus on service as a way to make connections. One effectiv...
Service-learning in higher education has gained increasing atten-tion in recent years, but at most u...
The demand on universities across America to produce civic-minded students is ever increasing. These...
Engagement in the immediate community has long been a stated goal of most colleges and universities....
Service learning is a process that is able to take what students learn in the classroom and morph th...
This thesis takes issue with current models of community engagement and service learning that do not...
Service-learning is a valuable pedagogical tool to integrate service to community with classroom lea...
Institutionalizing service-learning can be a rich and complex process. The following ideas about sus...
Over the past twenty years, there has been a steady increase in the number of students involved in c...
Implementing service-learning is challenging in light of issues such as changes in student demograph...
Service learning as a teaching methodology has agrowing following among faculty in higher edu-cation...
The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningfu...
Abstract??Much of the reform in higher education is focused on the teaching and learning process wit...
Incorporating service learning opportunities into classroom instruction has been well documented as ...
Presented by Ira Silver and a panel of students. This session explores how classroom instruction and...
Higher education has been increasing its focus on service as a way to make connections. One effectiv...
Service-learning in higher education has gained increasing atten-tion in recent years, but at most u...
The demand on universities across America to produce civic-minded students is ever increasing. These...