scholarly journals Fostering an Environmental Ethic through Service Learning

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Amie Eisenhut ◽  
Diana Flannery
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Level Of Concern

Objective: To explore connections between environmental education, public concern for environmental health, and service learning. Methods: A 20-item survey was administered to same students at the beginning and end of a 15-week Environmental Health course. Qualitative data were collected from reflective papers based on students involved in community based learning. Results: The findings of the study revealed that students grew in their sense of environmental responsibility; significantly increased their “level of concern” for 18 of the 20 environmental variables measured; and viewed community action as empowering. Conclusion: Students’ participation in an Environmental Health course and engagement in service learning increased their overall support for a variety of environmental issues.

scholarly journals Considering Power in Community-Based Research: Shifting Toward New Pedagogical Approaches with a 'Public Work for Public Things' Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Haarman ◽  
Patrick M Green
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Power Differential ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Work ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Learning Pedagogy ◽  
The Voice

One of the fundamental questions of power in the pedagogy of community-based research (CBR) is who gets to decide what is research worthy and what is the focus of CBR questions? The reality of the power imbalance in community-based research and learning is often reflective of a systemic disengagement with the broader community. Even when instructors and administrators are intentional in how they solicit feedback or think through the impact of their work, they may not know the neighbourhood. Prioritising the voice of community partners does not provide a simple solution, as the individuals we work with to organise community-based learning opportunities may not be residents of the neighbourhood. This article adopts a theory-building approach to this crucial question. Building on the work of Boyte (2014) and Honig (2017), community-based research is reoriented as ‘public work for public things’ (Haarman 2020). After establishing the ‘public work for public things’ framework, the article explores how this new framework impacts collaborative research by addressing the power differential and creating new lines of inquiry – specifically the practice of ‘elicitation of concerns’. Through the lens of critical service-learning pedagogy (Mitchell 2008) and a practitioner-scholar framework (Lytle 2008; Ravitch 2013; Salipante & Aram 2003), we then interrogate two community-based research courses we have recently taught, examining how a ‘public work for public things’ approach would have altered the course and its methods.

scholarly journals Welcome from the IARSLCE President

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. iii-iii
Author(s):  
Susan Root
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
International Association ◽  
Community Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Learning And Collaboration

I am thrilled to introduce the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IJRSLCE), the journal of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE). IARSLCE is an association of K-H scholars and practitioners dedicated to the development and dissemination of high quality research on service-learning and other forms of community-based learning and collaboration.

Critical Currents in Community Service Learning and Community-Based Research: History, Theory and Practice

2003 ◽  
Vol os-20 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Cunningham ◽  
Kerry E. Vachta
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Critical Currents ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
State University ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research

Brulle (2000) has noted the failure of the recent literature in critical theory to reflect the commitment of its founders to applying their philosophical and theoretical scholarship to create concrete social change. The authors have taken up the challenge to recover critical theory's “forgotten materialist component” and simultaneously responded to the call to reinvigorate the civic mission of the public university through efforts to integrate critical theory with community service learning and community-based research. The paper discusses historical, philosophical and theoretical issues in this effort and some reflections on our attempt to apply them in practice through the revitalization of the Center for Community Action and Research at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg.

English at Your Service

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Helene Krauthamer ◽  
Matthew Petti
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
General Education ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Black College ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Historically Black College ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses civic engagement and service-learning in higher education at an urban, land-grant, Historically Black College/University, with a particular focus on the challenges and benefits of service-learning for commuter students. After a discussion of service learning and how it exemplifies the Kolb learning model and effective educational practice, the chapter presents illustrations of civic engagement and extracurricular community-based learning in an English BA program through its two student organizations – The Literary Club and Sigma Tau Delta-Alpha Epsilon Rho. The chapter also provides an example of how service-learning has been implemented in a General Education program and specifically in a writing course. The chapter highlights the partnerships with community organizations that have developed, presents reflective testimonials about the impact of these experiences, provides recommendations for strengthening community-based learning, and concludes that service-learning/community-based learning results in a sense of community for all participants.

Imagination Practices and Community-Based Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-223
Author(s):  
Simone Weil Davis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Learning Projects

Informed by my experiences in prison/university co-learning projects, this essay centres two community-based learning practices worth cultivating. First, what can happen when all participants truly prioritize what it means to build community as they address their shared project, co-discovering new ways of being and doing together, listening receptively and speaking authentically? How can project facilitators step beyond prescribed roles embedded in the charity paradigm of service-learning to invite and support egalitarian community and equity-driven decision-making from a project’s inception and development, through its unfolding and its assessment? Second, the sheer fact of a project taking place in the marginal place between two contexts gives all participants—students, faculty, community participants and hosts—the opportunity for meta-reflection on the institutional logics that construct and constrain our perspectives so acutely. What can we do, by way of project-conception and pedagogy, to open up those insights? The vantage that “the space between” provides can bring fresh understanding of the systemic forces at work in the lives of the community participants. And the university’s assumptions about itself and its place in the world can also suddenly appear strange and new, objects of scrutiny for students and community members both.

scholarly journals Preparing students for community-based learning using an asset-based approach

2014 ◽  
pp. 48-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Garoutte ◽  
Kate McCarthy-Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Individual Role

One goal of service and community-based learning is to produce students who are more tightly engaged in the larger communities surrounding their institutions. Drawing on data from three courses, we argue that an asset-based approach plays a role in creating authentic campus-community partnerships that strive to engage students as members of the community from the outset and throughout their service learning courses. Asset-based activities help students come to understand the value of relationships amongst community members while also underscoring the value of their individual role in this group.  As such, students are more prepared for future work within the community.

scholarly journals The Development of Media and Special Event to Support Knowledge of Arts and Culture Entitled “Dancing with Single-Head Drum Accompaniment” for Young People through Social Service Learning and Community-Based Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Kuntida Thamwipat ◽  
Pornpapatsorn Princhankol
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Special Event ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
High Level

This research and development was aimed (a) to develop media and special event to support knowledge of arts and culture entitled “Dancing with Single-Head Drum Accompaniment” for young people through social service learning and community-based learning, (b) to evaluate the quality of such media and special event, (c) to measure the learning achievements and the satisfaction of young people towards such media and special event, and (d) to measure the learning achievements and the satisfaction of students towards social service learning and community-based learning. The sampling group in this study consisted of 30 young people in the community under the bridge Zone 1 at Pracha-utit 76 who were chosen using purposive sampling method out of those who were willing to participate in the activities on the 11th of November, 2017 and 16 graduate students from Faculty of Industrial Education and Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi who enrolled in the LTM 652 course. The statistical analysis included mean score, standard deviation and dependent t-test. The results showed that the quality of the contents was at a very good level (x=4.70, S.D.=0.50) and the quality of the media and special event was at a very good level (x=4.80, S.D.=0.40). The learning achievements of young people showed that their average post-test score for dancing with single-head drum accompaniment was higher than the average pre-test score with a statistically significant difference at the.01 level. The satisfaction of young people was at a high level (x=4.40, S.D.=0.60). The learning achievements of graduate students showed that their average post-test score for social service learning and community-based learning was higher than the average pre-test score with a statistically significance difference at the.01 level. The satisfaction of the graduate students was at a high level (x=4.10, S.D.=1.60). Therefore, the developed media and special event through social service learning and community-based learning can be used in the future.

scholarly journals Encountering difficult knowledge: Service-learning with Sociology and Political Science undergraduates

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Tansey ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Direct Service ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Status ◽  
Service Role ◽  
Community Based Learning

Community based learning or service learning is a dynamic pedagogical opportunity for students to engage with their discipline in light of social concerns. This presentation will share the key challenges sociology students and lecturer encounter when working with charities and nonprofits with social justice missions. Students are asked to face what Pitt and Britzman (2003) call “difficult knowledge” in classroom readings and discussions on complicity to poverty and racism. The community engagement experience with local charities allows for a dialogue with the scholarly literature grounded in practical experience. Sociology students are challenged to see the institutional and wider structural inequalities upstream while working in community with a direct service role downstream. Taylor (2013) describes student engagement within this type of teaching tool that is critical of the status quo. Hall et al. (2004) argue that the classroom is best placed to navigate this new terrain whereas student volunteering independently might not facilitate reflection and academic literature. Students with a wide variety of needs engage with communities in different ways and lecturers may need to adjust and demonstrate flexibility to facilitate all learning environments.

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