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The Study Of The Implementation Effectiveness Of Service-Learning : Sample Of Jinwen University Of Science And Technology, Han Lin Hsiung

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The purpose of the study was to explore the implementation of the service-learning program and its effects on students' learning. This study would be by "knowledge and skills of service", "self-efficacy", "interpersonal respect and multicultural tolerance", and the "social issue concerns" to explore any effects on students' learning. This study hoped to give some suggestions to Service-Learning program.

The study was conducted by both pretest-posttest quasi-design experiment and qualitative data from September 2012 to June 2013. The participants for this study were all students who took the service-learning courses at Jinwen University of Science and Technology. The Scale for Service-Learning …

Post Typhoon Livelihood Program Through Sl : Love Into Action, Pemenorejoan M. Calumpang, Sergio S. Clarida

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With catastrophes hitting the Philippines, it is just but fitting for a Christian institution to focus on what is most beneficial to the general public: Putting in Love Into Action. Pilgrim Christian College has two campuses: the main campus and the annex. In December 2011, Sendong (Washi) brought flash floods which reached the second floor roofs at the annex. Lives were lost in the neighboring community. In 2012-2013, a special project aimed at helping qualified Sendong (Washi) survivors or partners with a more systematic recovery program was planned by students, from the School of Business, with the community. A certain …

Local Government Units As Potential Partners In Maximizing The Effectiveness Of Service-Learning Programs Of Universities In Central Philippines, Eric Loretizo

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Reciprocity, as one of the principles of Service-Learning, entails mutuality in the implementation of an S-L program. One of the facets of mutuality is on the concern on the choice of a community, which serves as program host. The choice is critical to the success or failure of the program.

Universities and colleges have tested-and-proven mechanisms for the selection and sustenance of their community service hosts. Many of them are, however, constrained in maximizing their efforts due to either lack of manpower, resources or even the time to look into potential areas and fields of service. This may be true …

Journey To Student Empowerment : The 65th Street Corridor Community Collaborative Project, Gregory Yee Mark, Daniel Luo, Sarah Liu

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The 65th Street Corridor Community Collaborative Project (65th Street Project) is a high-impact and multi-component community mobilization effort aimed at increasing student academic achievement, fostering student leadership, and improving parent participation for disadvantaged children living in neighborhoods where gang violence, a lack of access to resources and low civic engagement create a need for innovative, culturally competent strategies. The Project serves 7th -12th grade schools in Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood, a low-income and diverse community that is adjacent to the University campus.

The 65th Street Project is a service-learning organization that collaborates with Hiram Johnson High School and Will C. …

Evaluation Of The Operation And Maintenance Of Micro Hydro Power Plant And Its Sustainability, Josefine Ernestine Luhulima-Latupeirissa

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Higher Education Grants to UKI Paulus in 2008 was for Development Micro Hydro Power (MHP) in remote areas, the Village Peuk, District Balla, Mamasa regency, West Sulawesi and Persondongan Village, District Sa'dan Ulusalu, North Toraja Regency, Sulawe si South. But in the course of time, maintenance is not carried out in accordance with the MHP standard. This is caused by conditions very remote areas, people are still lagging behind in knowledge, information, technology and the use of local languages. Thus the community needs help to training operation and maintenance of MHP. Therefore the aim of the service learning program conducted …

Community Service-Learning Facilitators' Perceptions Of Student Volunteers, Wen Hsia Yeh

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In 2014, Youth Development Administration (YDA), Ministry of Education in Taiwan launched a half-day program called "inspection and connection of schools and community organizations workshop" which was taken place for 10 times over Taiwan (i.e., 3 times in northern, central and southern Taiwan, once in eastern Taiwan). The participants included local school teachers (from elementary schools to colleges), school administrators and NPO staff. They are regarded as facilitators who can shape their holistic efforts through collaborative partnerships. These partnerships give service learning programs a structure to mobilize people and resources to create changes and to develop learning opportunities for students. …

Frameworks For A Critical Service Learning Approach, Melanie Yong

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The institutionalization of Service Learning in Asian educational establishments has its benefits in reaching out further to the general public. In Malaysia, this concept is new and Methodist College Kuala Lumpur is one of the few institutions that introduced an d follows a structured system of implementation. Therefore this paper is aimed at sharing the experience and discoveries made of Service Learning in Methodist College Kuala Lumpur as well as the common challenges faced within a Framework of a Critical Service Learning Approach aimed at Social Justice. The author will examine her student's work and provide a summary analysis of …

A Combination Of Oracle And Internet : The Chinese Philology In Fju That Initiate Miaoli Fuxing Elementary School Involvement In Service-Learning, Ya Fen Lin

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The Project of Developing Knowledge-sharing Based Study Group via the Internet Platform have been Promoted by Fu Jen Catholic University Service-Learning Center from 2006. One part of this plan is The Chinese philology in FJU that initiate Miaoli Fuxing Elementary School involvement in Service-Learning.

The "Chinese philology", often shortened into a term with the literary meaning of "Chinese character study", is an old discipline with a large body of academic literature of various kinds. We had guide the students to Transform the classical knowledge to contemporary using, also provide diversified way Course Evaluations in order to enhance the effectiveness of …

Discovering New Selves : College Students' Perceptions Of Their Perspective Transformation Through Service-Learning, Chin Ping Liou

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Background: The course of philosophy of life was introduced into the Fu Jen Catholic University undergraduate curriculum three decades ago with an aim to help develop students' critical thinking abilities and transform their perceptions of themselves, others, and the world in which they live. Service-learning has been integrated into the course in the late 1990s by the instructors in favour of the pedagogy of learning-by-doing. Studies suggest that students in the course integrating service-learning have undergone certain degree of transformations in the way they think, behave, and feel. However, few studies have looked into the processes by which these hanges …

Need For Service Learning In Compulsory Foreign Language Education In A Japanese University Setting, Lisa Gayle Bond, Sari Hosoya

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Japanese students experience "International Understanding" classes from the beginning of compulsory education and foreign language education in the upper grades of elementary education continuing through high school. These courses are conducted with the hopes of fostering an international or global mindset among Japanese youth.

Unfortunately, not all university students express an interest in such global initiatives. Questionnaires asking students ab out their foreign experiences as well as their desire to participate in university sponsored international programs (such as study abroad programs, intercultural exchange, and community activities) have been administered to first year students at Kanto Gakuin University in the 2014 …

Service-Learning Impact On Community Engagement : From The Graduates' Perspectives, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Hok Ka, Carol Ma, Wing Fung, Chad Chan

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Service-Learning (S-L) is pedagogy that has been newly introduced into Hong Kong's higher education institutes. Thus, most local, recent studies focus on implication and evaluation of the S-L program for the existing students. There is lack of study about the long-term impact of S-L, especially for graduate students. Lingnan University (LU) as the only liberal art university in Hong Kong, aims to equip LU students with whole person development skills, as well as the capability to serve the community in the future. The Office of Service-Learning (OSL) was established in 2006 to promote S-L in Lingnan, echoing the university's motto …

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

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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 …

Working With Difference : A Model Of Interdisciplinary Service Learning Program In Taiwan, Pei Yuan Ting

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Since 2007, "Chung-Yuan Advertising and Design Service" has served more than 40 non-profit organizations. It is formed by the students and university faculty from three different departments- Business Administration, Commercial Design and Electronic Engineer in Chung-Yuan Christian University. Working like an advertising company, the students work in groups from different disciplines and provide service of marketing and graphic design, like youtube clip, logo, promotion campaign and tv commercial clip. The program was started by three faculty members who have same vision. The aims of the course include helping the students to apply theories in practice, building up their communication and …

Campus And Non-Government Organization Partnership Methods Assimilating Students Into Communities, Stephen Yona Loanoto, Lilianny Sigit Arifin

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Architecture study could be seen as an ideal academic field for applying service-learning, since it requires skill and theoretical concepts for direct application to human situations and needs. And in fact, architecture study has long experience in learning by doing and has often come face to face with significant problems and issues, both professional and ethical.

My course entitled 'Housing, Informal Sector and Psychology' applies service -learning approach, and is dedicated to encouraging architecture students to become socially responsible professionals by working on real design projects for local community. I prefer to choose one project for one class as individual …

Service-Learning In Children's Literature : Teaching Young Filipino Learners Local Narratives And Oral Storytelling Tradition, Andrea Gomez-Soluta

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A service-learning project undertaken by my Children's Literature students was mentoring Grades 4-5 pupils (in cooperation with homeroom advisers) from selected Dumaguete City Public Elementary Schools in oral storytelling. The project was designed for student s to apply the principles in oral storytelling they learned in class, and to let them and the pupils gather local oral narratives from which they could draw traditional beliefs and practices for discussion in the context of Filipino identity, values, worldview as well as relevance in their everyday realities. It further aimed to heighten both sets of participants' awareness and appreciation of their storytelling …

Learning From Disasters In An Island Community : Insights Gained By Participants Of The International Service-Learning 2014 In The Philippines, Karla Panganiban, Allen Del Carmen

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In this age of climate change, disasters and calamities have become more frequent and deadlier all over the world. The situation is even graver in Asia, where many countries are more vulnerable to greater risks to lives and property due to their location - the Pacific Ocean where cyclones brew and move westward, with the possibilities of resulting in storm surges and tsunamis, and the Ring of Fire, where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

As a response to a 2013 disaster (Typhoon Haiyan), which killed about 7,000 persons in the Philippines, the United Board of Christian …

Global Citizenship And Community Engagement Through Global Service-Learning, Sook Young Ryu, Jung Won Jo

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Service-Learning(S-L) may enable participants to have more concerns for others and try to engage in the community as they find their roles. Global Service-Learning (GS-L) provided university students with the opportunity to experience global problems that were unfamiliar to them now, but will help motivate them to explore possible solutions for future use. Global citizenship is based not on the knowledge from books but on experience and engagement in real world situations. This study explores the experiences and learning of students who conducted GS-L outreach for two weeks in Mongolia. A survey instrument, follow-up discussions and reflective journals were used …

Key Factors In Encouraging And Empowering Undergraduates To Practice Service Leadership Through Extra-Curricular Service-Learning Practicums, Robin Stanley Snell, Yin Lee, Maureen Chan, Hok Ka, Carol Ma, Ka Man, Carman Chan

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While internships bridge students' academic major to the world of work, in this paper, we focus on practicums as vehicles for service leadership development. In the summers of 2013 and 2014, Lingnan University arranged 28 full-time practicums in 13 partner organizations, mainly not-for-profit organizations or social enterprises, for students with prior service-learning experience. Practicums lasted 6 weeks in 2013, and 8 weeks in 2014. Students attended a 3-hour preparatory workshop on service leadership, and an interim review meeting.

Through interviews with 26 practicum students and site supervisors from 13 partner organizations, we identified three factors that enabled practicum students to …

College Students' Changes Of Thinking Styles, Personality Traits, And Mental Adjustment After Joining Overseas Service Learning, Miao Ju Tu, Kun Hu Chen, Rong Ji Pan, Miao Ju Chwo, Yu Ling Su, Ruei Siang Shen

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Service learning has become a very popular approach for enhancing whole personal development for students at Taiwan universities. However, there is little attention to the actual changes after joining service learning, especially in overseas service learning. To evaluate the changes of joining overseas service learning, this study compared the scales of thinking styles (including positive, negative thinking styles), personality traits (including hope, resilience, self-esteem), and mental adjustment (life satisfaction, depression) from 49 college students of Fu Jen Catholic University. The results of the study revealed that most of above-mentioned variables had positive and significant changes. In summary, college students joining …

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

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The study examined the effects of the service learning experience on undergraduate students’ mental adjustment in Taiwan. A total of 49 undergraduate students of Fu Jen Catholic University filled out questionnaires on the positive/negative experience of service learning, levels of life satisfaction and depressive levels before and after joining overseas service learning. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted and the results revealed that the positive experience of service learning positively contributed to life satisfaction in pre-test and post-test of joining overseas service learning. Meanwhile, the results revealed the negative experience of service learning positively contributed to depression in pre-test of joining …