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Breaking Ground On The University Garden: Service-Learning And Action Research, Bryce Collin Davis
Breaking Ground On The University Garden: Service-Learning And Action Research, Bryce Collin Davis
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this dissertation was to document, analyze, understand, and describe how the environmental virtue ethics of undergraduate students were impacted after participating in a service-learning project designed to establish a new university garden. This service-learning project occurred during the fall semester of 2011, on the campus of Lighthouse University, a mid-size Catholic college campus that is located in an urban area of Southern California. The service-learning component was embedded within one environmental ethics course. Over the course of one sixteen-week academic semester, thirty undergraduates, between the ages of 18-23, each volunteered ten hours in this new on-campus garden. …