scholarly journals designBridge: Integrating Transportation into Service Learning Design/Build Projects

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juli Brode
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Design Build

Effects of learning design patterns in service learning courses

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Heinz Gerholz ◽  
Verena Liszt ◽  
Katrin B Klingsieck
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Curricular Content ◽  
Service Project

Students participate during service learning courses in a service project, which fits to a community need and has a link to curricular content. Students have a chance while engaged in the service project to apply curricular content in community practice, where they gain insights into civic engagement activities. Empirical studies revealed the effects of service learning, such as its influence on the self-concept, self-efficacy or attitudes to be engaged. However, a lack of research regarding the link between learning design patterns and the effectiveness of service learning can be found. Learning design patterns are teaching or methodical interventions to support the learning and service process of the students. This article presents a study on the experiences of students and charitable organizations in a service learning course concerning the learning design patterns. A mixed-methods design including questionnaires and interviews has been used. Significant effects regarding students’ development of their self-efficacy, self-concept and attitude to being engaged were found. The qualitative results provide a deeper understanding of these changes, including the different perspectives from students and from charitable organizations. The results show differences in the learning design patterns perceived and its support for the service and learning process.

scholarly journals Service-Learning Education Integrated Design Education Through a Design- Build Focus

Cubic Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
Michael Chan
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Educational Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Design Build ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Process

Different from the conventional design-built projects, the service-learning educational model represents a student led community driven education process. This photos essay delivers evidence, spanning 15 years and various contexts, demonstrating the impact of service learning and its dependency on cross-disciplinary skills. Beyond the social value, service learning fosters a series of interpersonal and professional relationships, amplifying skills and education value outside of the classroom.

scholarly journals Service-Learning as a Tool to Cultivate Democratically Minded Students: A Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Lebovits ◽  
Del M. N. Bharath
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Democratic Community ◽  
Pedagogical Goals

The field of public administration is intrinsically linked to a substantive experience of democracy and the development of a democratic community. This article employs John Dewey’s constructivist pedagogical approach to make the case that service-learning can be a vehicle to cultivate students’ understanding of democracy as a movement toward a common good. We use the term “real democracy” to describe the ways that substantive practices of Dewey’s communal democracy materialize in today’s public sector. We highlight the concerns “real democracy” presents for public administrators before arguing that Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs are a particularly suitable setting to cultivate Dewey’s constructivist approach to democratic education given that the spirit of the approach is already well-aligned with MPA core competencies. Finally, we present public administration educators with a democratic service-learning conceptual framework that ties together pedagogical goals, service-learning design and outcomes, and Dewey’s constructivist, democratic student experience.

Urban Design Build: The Frederick Douglass Peace Park - Community-Based Learning Through Making

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Anna Grichting ◽  
Kyle Sturgeon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Design Build ◽  
Service Learning Projects

By way of its uniquely concurrent practice + academic learning model, the Boston Architectural College (BAC) has begun a thriving tradition of community engagement through design. This paper uncovers how design/build formats -cast as a service-learning projects - have the potential to foster profound student learning opportunities, improve the urban environment through design engagement and community action, and inform architectural accreditation. Though exceptionally rewarding, the design/build model is not without challenges. The authors utilize their unique perspectives as design educators and community members to deliver both a narrative account and critical analysis for a case study of one such learning model. The Frederick Douglas Peace Park project, conducted in 2008 as part of the authors’ Urban Design Build (UDB) format is an example of a grassroots initiative met with the support of an institution of design education. The project revitalizes a neglected neighborhood by activating forgotten space - rebuilding a sense of community and creating a place of memorial for a much-revered American Civil Rights Activist. Emanating from Grichting’s neighborhood peace park, Sturgeon’s UDB project extended grassroots momentum to community event programming and served as a catalyst for additional reclamation projects: a string of public spaces and the rehabilitation of a community center once on the verge of being torn down and privatized.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document