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Social Inclusion For The Deaf People Social Enterprise Through Students Social Business Plan & Execution Competition Of Innovation Service-Learning : A Case Study Of Deaf People Bakery & University Courses Group In Business School, Providence University, Taiwan, Chuan Cheng Chen

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The service-learning students from three teachers courses group in business school try to provide solution to raise up the efficiency and at the same time ease the heavy management burden of the deaf people bakery. There are six subjects in this “social business plan & execution competition”, as an innovation kind of service-learning, for this deaf people bakery firm. And the outputs of social inclusion in this innovative Service-Learning courses group program, for the Deaf people social enterprise, are: 1) Social inclusion from the student’s perspective: Most of the students have high identification with the deaf people and their perseverance …

Using Car (Concept, Action, Reflection) In The Disciplines To Connect The Local And Global, Kelsey Halbert, Wendy Li, Theresa Petray

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Service learning responds to calls for higher education to engage with community and to develop more active-learning strategies in undergraduate education. This Panel Presentation highlights the use of service learning within the disciplines of sociology, psychology and education at an Australian university. The CAR (Concept, Action, Reflection) model employed includes conceptual development within the discipline, an opportunity for action that is situated in the local and global community and critical reflection. CAR builds on existing service learning pedagogical frames and presents interdisciplinary perspectives. This panel aims to stimulate discussion about modes of community-based learning in higher education curriculum. The first …

Community Outreach Program : A Model Of International Service-Learning Program, Lilianny Sigit Arifin, Herry Christian Palit

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Designed as community service program Petra Christian University (Universitas Kristen Petra – UK Petra) and some international partners, Community Outreach Program (COP) was firstly established in 1995. It is an inter-discipline educational activity with an aim to give a learning experience by living in a community, to give response to the actual social life and to help developing the community. As part of the curriculum, COP is an effective means to raise students’ awareness regarding with community development. They are expected not only giving contribution to the community, but also gaining a better multicultural understanding among the participants themselves. For …

The Impact Of Co-Production Theories On Students’ Critical Service Learning Development In Hong Kong, Paul Higgins

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Background A review of the contributions to the 3rd Asia Pacific regional conference on service learning (2011) reveals the presentation of a large number of international student projects targeted at “communities of need” and “community services” in order to bring public purposes and private benefits together. However, widely-reported concerns about, amongst others, access to and response from target communities, time constrains, relevance of applied knowledge to community interests and sustainability of student interventions continue to qualify the assumed gains of service learning. This presentation builds on these observations by charting the activities of a slightly more basic, localised, but permanent, …

Glocal Social Innovation Service‐Learning Program, Francesca Sin

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With the real estate boom stoking millions of fortunes, Hong Kong is constantly nurturing the rich to become richer. While this seems to be good news to the soon-to-be leading global financial centre, we cannot ignore the fact that the poverty-stricken family is not sharing its fruits. This phenomenon is contributing to an even wider gap between the rich and the poor, resulting in growing social concerns in this ostensibly glamorous city. In view of alleviating the plight of Hong Kong’s poverty from bottom-up, as an educator, I am determined to instill compassion and mindfulness among many other positive qualities …

Assessing Impact On Community Partner In A 15-Year International Service Learning Program, Service Learning’S Role In Local Community Development In Pokhara, Nepal, Diane Musselwhite

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This paper is based on research carried out in August 2012 in Pokhara City, Nepal regarding the impact on the community of a 15-year international service-learning (ISL) program. The program entails a yearly collaboration between Poole Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan and two secondary schools on the outskirts of Pokhara. For three weeks in August and September every year since 1997 twenty to thirty university students from Osaka have travelled to Pokhara with two faculty members. The students are divided into two groups, those who will teach elementary Japanese language and culture and those who will coach baseball. It was through …

Development And Implementation Of A Service-Learning Telephone Safety And Reassurance Program To Build An Eldercare Workforce, Lisa Brown

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It is well recognized that there is a significant shortage in the global workforce trained to care for the elderly. The World Health Organization estimates that this shortage will continue to dramatically increase as the number of people aged 65 or older doubles from 11% to 22% by the year 2050. To meet the growing needs of an aging population, a wide range of professionals with health and social service expertise are required to help older people live independently and with dignity. Research on service-learning in gerontology indicates that this type of coursework plays a vital role in exposing students …

Improving The Living Standard Of Community In Code Riverside Through Environmental Natural Resources Utilization, Listia Natadjaja, P. Benny Setyawan

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Code River or Kali Code is one of the great rivers that divide the city of Yogyakarta. We found that the community in the Code riverside needs something that can improve their welfare significantly. We try to figure out something that combines some potential resources like fish conservation, waste-free area of Kali Code, unique architecture, and English speaking people. We come up with the suggestion of a Service-Learning (S-L) program to create a fishing river. The aim of this S-L program is to have a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach to improve the Kali Code community’s welfare through environmental natural resources …

Matching Theory And Practice In International Service-Learning (Isl), Earl Mulderink, Rita Osborn

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Drawing upon a wealth of recent scholarship, this interactive workshop explores key challenges, questions, and contradictions inherent in International Service-Learning (ISL) while showcasing effective programs offered through Southern Utah University (SUU). A public university of 8,000 students with an emphasis on the liberal arts, SUU is one of 311 universities and colleges in the USA designated as a Carnegie Community Engaged Institution. The co-presenters are, respectively, the Director of the Community Engagement Center and the founding Director of the Rural Health Scholars Program. Together and separately, they have organized innovative short-term ISL programs in Mexico, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Kenya, …

The Why Not The What : Critical Reflection In An Atypical Service-Learning Course, Billy O’Steen, Lane Perry

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Service-learning in higher education is fundamentally about facilitating connections among service, learning, teaching, and reflection to create a powerful and engaging pedagogy. Inherent in that is also connecting students, faculty, staff, and the community for mutual benefit. In 2010 and 2011, a series of earthquakes destroyed the city of Christchurch, New Zealand and a resulting example of mutually beneficial community service at the University of Canterbury (UC) emerged. Over 9,000 UC students organized themselves as the Student Volunteer Army (SVA) to provide immediate post-quake relief and this served as a catalyst for the creation of a service-learning course, CHCH101: Rebuilding …

Colours Of Dementia, Suk Mun, Sophia Law

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Dementia is one of the commonest concerns of ageing. In Hong Kong, the population of those over 60 with dementia is expected to increase by 222% from 103,433 in 2009 to 332,688 in 2039 (Yu et al., 2012). To cope with the growing burden of ageing and dementia, measures that prepare society to accept and care for the elderly are necessary. College students are the future leaders of society. Their connection to the elderly is crucial in encouraging positive social changes in an ageing population. This paper proposes a service-learning programme of using arts to facilitate expression among people with …

Biciline X University Nike Icon, Hoi Ki Wong

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Background A sustainable city can be built by the collaboration of social enterprises and businesses. In this proposal, TWGHs BiciLine Cycling Ecotourism Social Enterprise and University Nike Icon (UNI) are chosen to be matched. BiciLine in Yuen Long is established by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. In order to promote cycling eco-tourism in West New Territories, BiciLine provides bicycles and trains tour guides, who are the low income, low education and skill level marginalized youth. On the other hand, UNI is an apprenticeship program organized by Nike yearly. The participants, who are the undergraduates and keen on sports, would join …

Campus Compact Indicators Of Engagement, Mani Sangaran-Hull

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Campus Compact, established in 1985, is the international higher education association of colleges and universities committed to engaged campuses through civic engagement and academic service-learning. Encapsulating other outreach programs and services, its network of 35 state affiliates utilizes five indicators of engagement themes, developed in 2002, to establish and sustain high impact educational practices. The first theme--institutional culture--addresses ways in which stakeholders engage with campus goals and priorities. The second theme--curriculum and pedagogy--explores the extent to which civic engagement has become integrated into teaching and learning activities. The third theme--faculty roles and rewards--seeks to determine the extent to which faculty …

Where’S The Academic In Service-Learning?, Jane Szutu Permaul

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Research has focused on the impact of service-learning on student development “as a whole person”, on assisting community in solving social challenges and issues, on civic education and even leadership and critical thinking. On a more practical level, emphasis has been put on identifying community, social and other worldly challenges to which the university and its students can contribute to their resolutions, via service-learning programs. This workshop, while not neglecting the elements noted thus far, focuses on designing service-learning offerings in meeting established academic objectives, be that in the humanities, social science, physical or life science. The Workshop facilitator has …

Further Our Understanding Of Reflection Through I-Statement Analysis, Yi Chun, Sherri Wei, Hui Ching, Beatrice Hsu

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Since Dewey (1933) highlighted reflection as an essential component in higher education, scholars (Dyment & O’Connell, 2011, Finlay 2008, & Hatcher, Bringle, & Muthiah, 2004) have pointed out the crucial role reflection plays in Service-Learning (S-L). Listed as one of the essential elements in service-learning, reflection acts as the hyphen between service and learning (Giles & Eyler, 1999). It enables participants to connect action and learning in a real-life setting, creating a new dimension through a deeper understanding of their experiences. No longer passive consumers of knowledge, participants can better clarify their own beliefs and values, explore issues emerged in …

Assessing Implementation And Sustainability Factors Of Economics-Focused Service-Learning Engagements, Philip Tuaño

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Students’ Reflection On Their Sl Experience As A Way Of Fostering Critical Thinking And Peace Building Initiative, Esther Kuntjara

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Thirty eight students of my cultural studies research class were participating Service Learning activities as one of the requirements of the course in applying what they had learned in class to the real situation. They were divided into six groups. Each group got involved with a group of approximately 15 to 30 young elementary school children once every week at the designated time in the local marginal neighborhood where they did the SL activities. They helped the children do their schoolwork, teach them English or play games. In order to deepen their understanding about the children’s lives and the culture …

Solid Waste Management Practices Of Selected Household In Barangay Damayang Lagi : Basis For Improvement Of Proposed Activities, Jean Maglaque

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One factor that could worsen the environmental crisis is the increasing accumulation of solid wastes which either have no counterpart in nature or which have not been properly disposed. And with this, the solid wastes have been identified as one of the most important environmental problems of urbanization. Poor solid waste management practices are considered as disastrous activities. . It has been observed that Barangay Damayang Lagi is facing solid wastes problem resulting to a lot of environmental problems such as flood, pollution, congestion and others. This is due to the existence of the fast-growing number of household in the …

Community Service Learning : Recovery And Community Empowerment Of The Post Merapi Eruption, Gregorius Punto Aji, Lucia Wiwid Wijayanti, Lucia Kurniawati

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Community Service Learning Program (CSLP) is one of curricular programs that aims at developing the students’ characters as a whole person (character education). Character education in Sanata Dharma University focuses on developing the three aspect of human character, i.e., competence, conscience, and compassion. In CSLP, the process of character education is carried out in two aspects: professional competence and personality development. In CSLP, professional competence is developed through learning how to implement their professional knowledge in the contextual situation in a selected community. Whereas the personality education is meant to develop the students’ sensitivity and cares for others To achieve …

Co-Assessment : A Democratic Approach To Deep Learning, Susan J. Deeley

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For the award of a M.A. (Honours) Social Sciences degree at a Scottish university, students may choose a service-learning course as part of their curriculum. Voluntary work placements integral to the course offer students an ideal opportunity to develop their employability skills and attributes, thus preparing them with for the workplace. The aims of this study were firstly, to examine the effects of critical reflection on the students’ perceptions and awareness of their learning, following their participation in the non traditional forms of assessment on the course. Secondly, the study aimed to examine the effectiveness of co-assessment of students’ oral …

Nurturing Shared Leaders Through Internship, Jessie Chow, Shui Fong Lam, Eric W.H. Chui

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The Faculty of Social Sciences (the Faculty) of the University of Hong Kong has offered the very first credit-bearing internships in social sciences amongst all local tertiary institutions. Since September 2009, all students in the discipline have to complete 24 credits (equivalent to 4 courses) of off-campus experiential learning, with 12 credits in local internships and another 12 credits in global internships. In June 2012, the Faculty launched the pilot project of Service Leadership Internship (SLI) under the funding of the Li & Fung Service Leadership Initiative, which supports service leadership training in all eight of Hong Kong’s tertiary institution. …

The Service Learning Journey Among Students And Communities In A Triad Partnership, Karen Venter

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This paper reflects the impact of service-learning in the nursing discipline at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South-Africa on students and community. Professional Nurses further their studies in the field of Nursing Education where service- learning is used as an educational tool to facilitate the implementation of global citizenship skills and mutual beneficial service-learning activities related to educational practice. As a pre-activity to developing a curriculum, nursing education (NE) students must perform a situational needs assessment in the community to ensure that the curriculum is relevant for all stakeholders. Furthermore, NE students design a lesson plan; facilitate …

Cslp In Sham Shui Po (理有「深」社區服務計劃) : A District-Based Service Learning Project, Its Mode Of Delivery And Effectiveness, Wing Ying, Winnie Lee

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Background: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is committed to producing all-round graduates who are also responsible citizens and contributive members of the society. The annual campus-wide Community Service Learning Programme (CSLP) has been organized since 2004 to encourage staff and students to serve the community through the use of their professional knowledge and skills. About 800 students work on various service projects each year to serve the underprivileged groups of Hong Kong, Chinese mainland and overseas. In 2010/11, we started a new mode of service delivery with the implementation of a District-based Service-Learning Project in a relatively deprived area …

Community Service Learning Program : Supporting Community-Based Tourism In Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta, Lucia Kurniawati, Gregorius Punto Aji, Lucia Wiwid Wijayanti

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One curricular program that aims at developing the students’ characters (character education) is Community Service Learning Program (CSLP). Character education in Sanata Dharma University (SDU) focuses on developing three aspects of human character, i.e.: competence, conscience, and compassion. There are two aspects to develop: professional competence and personality development. In CSLP, professional competence is developed through learning how to implement their professional knowledge they have learned in campus in contextual situation in the society. Meanwhile, the personality education is meant to develop the students’ sensitivity, cares, and attention to the poor or marginalized society. Students have to work together to …

Community Partnership In Service-Learning : The St. Paul University Philippines’ Experience, Allan Peejay Lappay

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Partnership is a key to an effective service-learning (SL). It develops competencies that promote the advancement of socially responsible citizens. As a prime Catholic University in Northeastern Philippines, St. Paul University Philippines (SPUP) has forged partnerships with communities to address their need of service and the students’ need of learning through active engagement. This allows Paulinian learners to connect with and benefit their surrounding communities through service while integrating their learning to their particular academic discipline. As SL fosters collaboration and partnership, it provides an avenue for learners to make valuable contributions to the community. To this end, St. Paul …

Service-Learning Does Work At Sacramento State University! : The 65th Street Corridor Community Collaborative Project, Gregory Mark, Griselda Casillas, Rayven Arzola, Aury Gutierrez- Zavala

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In 2002, a group of interdisciplinary scholars and researchers from Sacramento State University approached local community members in South Sacramento to collaborate on addressing rising at-risk and violence rates at two public schools in areas where gang violence and a lack of access to resources created a need for innovative, culturally competent strategies. This collaboration has blossomed into a long-term community project that currently annually serves more than 2,000 middle and high school students Panel members will discuss the evolution of this project that utilizes a University community-mobilization approach. This panel consists of one faculty member and three students. Dr. …

Gabay Ko...Abot-Kamay Mo (My Guidance Is In Your Hands), Florencia Bautista

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The University of Rizal System in its desire of assisting the community performs the extension function to provide services to undeserved and underprivileged individuals. Such provision ensures the upliftment of the quality of life of the above-cited sector towards productivity and self-reliance.

The project “Gabay Ko… Abot-Kamay Mo” as an extension service of the College of Science, University of Rizal System_Morong, caters the orphans housed at Felicisimo-Aurora Bahay-Kalinga, Inc. (FABKI). Its main focus is to provide guidance services for their emotional, social, moral and psychological stability which will help them cope and overcome the situations confronting them. The need for …

Lingkod : Pursuing Discipline-Based And Interest-Based Approaches To The Implementation Of The National Service Training Program, Ophalle Alzona

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The purpose of this paper is to provide a possible design for more discipline-based or interest-based approaches to the implementation of the National Service Training Program (NSTP), a legally-mandated program for tertiary level students in the Philippines aimed at contributing to the general welfare of members of Filipino communities who are at the margins of society. Through such approaches, pursued more intentionally at the Ateneo de Manila this past year, students’ particular academic disciplines or areas of interest become crucial elements in both the formation of the students and the service of marginalized communities. First, this paper describes and differentiates …

A Case Study On Academic Service-Learning : Enhance Academic Learning By Servicing With A Non-Profit Organization, Shih Chieh Chen

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Recently, we expect students in universities have the abilities of caring the community, understanding the community demands and solving the community problems. Researchers proposed papers in literature about that, to students, service-learning can promote their personal development, public relationship learning, understanding knowledge and applications. Therefore many courses in universities are designed to combine academic learning and community service such that students become to be resource providers and learning by initiative service.

This paper presents the outcome of a course, the practical of ERP module, in which we integrated the service as a significant course requirement. Students learned academic knowledge in …

Making Friends, Acting Changing : Partnerships Across Community-Based Service Learning, Chih Liang Chao

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Service-learning is a structured learning experience that combines community service with personal experiencing preparation and reflection. In service-learning, involves a principle-centered partnership between communities and university. In service-learning, traditional definitions of "teacher" and "learner" are intentionally blurred. Service-learning differs from traditional classroom education, which emphasizes reciprocal learning-We all learn from each other. This paper suggests additional theoretical perspectives drawn largely from cognitive psychology and social theory. Three teaching courses related to local or indigenous community development projects of Taiwan have been involved to answer these questions: (1) How can community partnerships enrich service-learning? (2) How curriculum development as a partnership …