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A Way To Learn : The Service Learning Between Indonesia (Scu) And Taiwan (Fju), Yu Chu Huang, Yi An Shih, Chi Yuan Hsu, Hsuan Yung Fang

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

Gills and Maclellan (2010) conducted a 1999-2009 systemic literature review service learning in nursing education, outcomes suggest that students who participate in international programs having an increase in self-perceived cultural competency, encouraging lifelong commitment to continue serving, developing students into a positive force of change in healthcare abroad and within their own communities. The purpose of this study is in depth to analyze nursing students' learning process through the service learning.

Design: Action research method was used and a total number of 6 nursing students were participated in this study. One Taiwanese and one Indonesia students as a team shared …

The Power Of Student And Community Engagement In Service-Learning Activity For Neighborhood Planning And Design Along The Riverbanks, Paulus Bawole

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

Neighborhood plans allow local people to get the right type of development for their community, but the plans must still meet the needs of the wider area. The inhabitants living in low-income neighbourhood along the riverbank show their great energy and intelligence in the use of resources and evaluating priorities. They can weigh the relative merits of different strategies like short term discomfort and security, in return for long-term benefits such as independent space and income generating possibilities.

Service-Learning program is a development strategy which involves students, lecturers, and other NGO’s as well as communities. It is also a teaching …

Chinese Language Training For Indonesian Workers = 印尼外勞的中文培訓班, Feifei, Olivia Xiao

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

This social activity program is geared to the Indonesian labour who will work in Mandarin Chinese speaking regions, organized by the Chinese department of UK Petra, benefit to both the major study students and the local labour.

Indonesia is one of the conventional labour-export country in Southeast Asia. Huge amount of labour working in the Chinese speaking regions such as Taiwan, Hong Kong etc. Language communication had been the biggest problem for these people. The solution previously was hiring the returned one as the trainer, but they are lack in general grammar and incorrect in most of the pronunciation, which …

Implementation Of Academic Study On The Execution Of Service Learning : An Example Of Cosmetics And Healthcare Department, Cardinal Tien Junior College Of Health Care And Management, Ju Hsuan Yeh, Tsai Yun Lo, Hsiao Ling Wu

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

The Ministry of Education has developed "Service Learning" aiming to combine the context of "service" and "learning" so that students can be enlightened of care and the learning to acquire knowledge and skills through practical services. The 2011 academic statistics show that over 139 colleges and universities in Taiwan has set up service learning units and 135 of them have incorporated service learning courses into official course credits (Ministry of Education, 2012). The purpose of this study is to investigate the professional curriculum of Cosmetics and Healthcare Department into "Service Learning". The paper takes the example from the Cosmetics and …

Effects Of Whole Personal Development On The College Students' Experience Of Service Learning, Yu Ling Su, Kun Hu Chen, Rong Ji Pan, Miao Ju Tu, Miao Ju Chwo, Ruei Siang Shen

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

In this study, researchers conducted a pre-test and a post-test to examine the directed effects of whole personal development on college students service learning experiences in Taiwanese. A total of 49 college students of Fu Jen Catholic University fil led out questionnaires on the positive/negative experience of service learning and whole personal development (including personal growth, interpersonal growth, intellectual growth, and responsibility of citizenship) before and after joining overseas service learning. Hierarchical regression was conducted and the results indicated that responsibility of citizenship positively corresponded to the positive experience of service learning in pre-test and post-test of joining overseas service …

On The Organization Best Suitable For Service-Learning : Institutional Perspective, Bai Chuan Yang

Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning 亞太地區服務研習會議

The primary objective of this study is to understand the effects of organization structure and resources towards the effectiveness of promoting service learning. Literature review shows that there seems to be limited studies that discuss the effects of organization structure and resources. Therefore, in order to justify the gap in the extant literature where most studies selected one service learning project as the case for research target, analysis using the organizational perspective was accomplished on the factors that affect the promotion of service learning.

Considering both static and dynamic organization structures and resources integration, this study shall aim to provide …