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2013 Conference Brochure: Be A Part Of The Human Rights Movement's New Frontier

Maureen E. Schlangen

Why must we explore the social practice of human rights?

In the 65 years since the U.N.’s Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the human rights community has become a standard-bearer of normative behavior, influencing development and humanitarian organizations, multinational corporations and philanthropists. Though the movement is viewed as honorable and admirable, the certainty of its mission can inhibit introspection; a natural tendency is to prioritize rather than challenge prevailing assumptions.

Are the good intentions of human rights advocates enough? No. Research and dialogue can help propel the human rights community forward by facilitating introspection to improve both advocacy and action: …

Policy Recommendations For Alleviating Homelessness In Chittenden County, Vermont, Brittany E. Nevins

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Chittenden County, Vermont is suffering from increasing homelessness and poverty among both individuals and families. Residents of Chittenden County face an urban rental vacancy rate of less than .5% in Burlington, VT where the majority of jobs are located and only a 3% vacancy in suburban towns. Residents face waiting lists for rental subsidies of up to 8 years, and decreasing access to services for working class populations who are facing rent to income ratios of nearly 70% and utility costs of 30% of their income. The market rent is increasing and the state budget faces deep cuts to services. …

嶺大X仁濟二中 : 以服務研習作生涯規劃, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

OSL Supplement 新聞特刊

原載於2015年7月14日《晴報》。

Originally published in "Sky Post" 14th July 2015.

University College Connection Summer 2015, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley, Univeristy College

UC Publications

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Progression Through Partnership, Aurelia Spaulding Editor, Leah Ashwill, Lauren D. Cunningham

ALIVE Center Publications

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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 Present Service-Learning Modes Practicing By Law School In Taiwan, Yuh Kae Huang

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"Voluntary Serving for the Community" forms one of the key cores of specialties, like as medicine, law & etc. Service-Learning practicing by Taiwanese Law School began from "Legal Service Society" or more exactly says "Legal Clinic Society" from the late 1970’s, but organized by very limited law schools. Today, there are currently more than 30 law department/schools in Taiwan an d majority of them follow the "Legal Service Society" path and have furthermore developed various kinds of service-learning modes for their students to experience/practice voluntary legal services.

This topic starts from the important of culturing the comportment of "Voluntary Serving …

Service Learning In Loyola College, Chennai : Loyola Extension Awareness Programme (Leap) : For First Year Pg Students, M. S. Joseph Antony Jacob

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The subjects that the students study in the class room should be deeply reflected in the field. It should not be mere observation learning, but actually plunging into action through demonstration. For example, Students of the Chemistry Department rightly chooses to conduct the consumer awareness programme by demonstrating some adulterated food and its adverse impact on health. Students of commerce departments should study the business know-how, various marketing techniques and new innovation in business. Students of economics department should study the developmental schemes of the government and its impact on the rural Masses. Thus service learning in Loyola is of …

The Connection Between Service-Learning And Community-Based Research, Wing Yan, Winnie Ng

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

Service-Learning is a new pedagogy developed in Hong Kong, which deepens students' learning through service experiences and reflective activities. Direct Service-Learning projects and programs, where students have face-to-face interactions with service recipients, are the most common type of Service-Learning experience. However, these direct Service -Learning projects are not the only means to enhancing students' learning. While in-direct Service-Learning projects and programs are often also carried out in academic settings in Asia, there is not much emphasis placed on students' conducting community-based research, or CBR.

Community-based research is another method for students to apply the core values of Service-Learning. As a …

Rethinking Of Life Perspective When Doing Service Learning In A Village In Indonesia, Juliana Anggono, Herry C. Palit, Poedi S. Wartoo, Frans Limbong

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Petra Christian University (PCU) has a service learning program named Community Outreach Program (COP) which has been run internationally since 1996. It has been awarded as one of excellent programs for students learning by Directorate General of Higher Education of Indonesia in 2008. This program was initiated with the goals of preparing young generation for a service to a community while simultaneously gaining new skills, knowledge, and understanding as an integrated aspect of the student's academic program. COP has been organised for 18 years now and its benefits for students to learn in various aspects of life are inevitable. This …

Developing Ict-Based Sme For Expanding Business Network : A Community Service In Kendal District, Central Java Indonesia, Suprihadi, Agustinus Fritz Wijaya, Birmanti Setia Utami, Rudy Latuperissa

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Nowadays, the invasion of products coming from abroad could not be avoided in Indonesia. It makes the SMEs in Indonesia have to be ready competing with those products if they want to survive in the trade. A good product distribution is usually equipped with good information technology and communication such as online marketing. The condition of SMEs in Central Java are still implementing a traditional method which is marketing their product traditionally in a sense that they use the traditional market. Our faculty therefore initiates a community service for SMEs in Kendal District. The program intends to empower the local …

Applying Critical Pedagogy In Service Learning Practice : A Path To Social Justice, Yu Yun Peng

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With Service-Learning gaining more acceptance and greater momentum in Asia, practitioners raise new concerns around ethical issues in its goal and practice. Ethics has to do with choosing between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical). For example, since the primary concern of Service-Learning is students' learning, what about the host communities? How do we ensure that service-learning does not treat them as mere laboratory and their stories and lives as mere artifacts or objects for study? In terms of student learning, is it enough for students to be able to make a comparison between their …

Towards A More Ethical Service-Learning, Hope S. Antone

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

Service-learning has been a fast growing learning method in campus for almost every age group of students. But traditional service learning approach brings in controversial debates on the power differences and privilege in the serving-served relationship.

Critical service learning pedagogy responds to the power distribution issue in a profound way. Its emphasis on social change, and the effort on the seeking of mutual benefit for all parties in service learning experience speak to the weakness of traditional service learning path. By critically reflecting on and examining the concept and practice of service-learning projects, building authentic relationships between both serving and …

An Inter-Disciplinary Approach For Service-Learning, L. H., Cinnie Ng

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

This paper presents a new Inter-disciplinary General Education course, "Paths to Service Leadership in Health Service", introduced in Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) with multiple partners including School of Chinese Medicine, Religion & Philosophy Department, School of Communication, and Office of Student Affairs of the University, and two NGOs, namely Sheng Kung Hui Li Ka Shing Care & Attention House for the Elderly and Salvation Army Yaumatei Multi-Service Centre.

Since 'the Server is the Service', the quality of the server in providing high quality caring service is the emphasis of this course. Through a review of the different care services …

To Create Synergy In Service Learning : A Case Study Of Campus-Community Partnership Of Voluntary Service Course Of Bnu-Hkbu United International College, Katy Zhang, Ka Kit, Timothy Chen

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

A long-term and sustainable campus-community partnership is one of most important element to achieve learning outcomes in service-learning. In Mainland China, to develop and maintain partnerships for service learning outside university is not an easy task. This paper will analyses the UIC (BNU-HKBU United International College) service learning module (one credit bearing course in one of the Whole Person Education experiential learning courses) and will focus on their methods and strategies of building camp us-community partnership based on a qualitative research by interviewing with community partners and course facilitators. After eight years' experience of service learning, UIC has developed a …

Cycle 3.0? Action Research & Critical Reflection On Service-Learning Programs Of A Residential College In Macau, Wai San, Sancia Wan

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

This paper discusses an action research as an approach to improving service-learning programs in a residential college (RC) of a university in Macau, China. The new RC system is aiming at integrating students' in-class and out-of-class experiences. Service-learning tends to become an important part of the RC programming so as to foster students' generic skills and civic engagement. However, partly due to the young development of the university's service-learning programs, and the inadequate relevant experience of the RC teachers, the author reflects on the trajectory of programs she has designed and (co-)organized, and analyzes the major areas of concern. This …

A Student Development Pathway In Service-Learning Model In Hong Kong, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Hok Ka, Carol Ma, Wing Fung, Chad Chan, Tyan Chyi, Nicholas Ooi

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The 2-level students ‘development pathway is developed in 2014 to further develop LU students as a community leader. First, students will take one or more than one credit-bearing courses with Service-Learning elements to have the basic knowledge of S-L and develop their whole-person development skills. Students reported the significant improvement in 7 learning outcome domains in the result of the pretest and posttest. (e.g. subject-related knowledge, communication skills, social competence, organizational skills, problem-solving skills, research skills and civic orientation). After that, part of the students can continue their Service-Learning Journey in six theme-based leadership training programs (e.g. Mainland and International …

In Response To The English Divide : Our Ten-Year Service-Learning Journey, Yi Chun, Sherri Wei, Hui Ching, Beatrice Hsu, Yi Ting, Cara Huang, Yu Ting, Amber Gong, Ting An, Ann Yeh

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Whether a small-scale intensive Service-Learning project makes an impact or not? This is a question we have been asking ourselves over the past ten years. In 2005, this S-L project was initiated to respond to a call from an elementary school located in central Taiwan. Since then, students and faculty of the English Department have been collaborating closely with teachers in the local community. The driving force behind this ten-year long journey is our urge to bridge this English Divide, a socially-rooted issue in education and also the ugly reality we hate to confront. In this AR research study, we …

Empowering Creativity In Services In An Educational Community, Paula Hodgson, Yu Ha Cheung

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

To exercise service leadership in educational community, university students can creatively design a variety of service activities that challenge and excite school students on their personal and social responsibility in environmental sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of empowerment in fostering creativity in service learning. This is a case study of a Leadership in Sustainability as part of Service Leadership Education in the General Education programme in a public university in Hong Kong. While the question "Whose responsibility is sustainability?" is commonly raised in Hong Kong, it is commonly perceived that it lies on the …

College Students' Attitudes And Intentions For Civic Engagement As A Function Of Generic Service-Learning Programs, Wai San, Sancia Wan

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

The objective of this paper is to assess the learning outcomes of service-learning programs organized by a residential college (RC) of a university in Macau, China by exploring students' global citizenship. Fully in operation since 2014, the new RC system is aiming at integrating students' in-class and out-of-class experiences. Service-learning tends to become an important part of the RC programming so as to foster students' generic skills and civic engagement. However, in view of the young development of the university's service-learning programs, the impact of such programs is still uncertain. Thus, systematic research into this area is urgently needed in …