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Understanding & Application Of Rigor In Qualitative Design Research, Andrew Russell, Zach Pino Sep 2025

Understanding & Application Of Rigor In Qualitative Design Research, Andrew Russell, Zach Pino

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A lack of rigor is an existential issue for the field of qualitative design research. Rigor is essential to research of any kind being seen as reputable, but a dearth of applied means creates less-than-rigorous research. There is increased risk when acting upon less-than-rigorous research. Qualitative design researchers are quick to speak of the importance of rigor in their field, but the literature shows few speak to its application when designing its methodology. This study aims to understand how rigor is defined and applied in qualitative design research. We conducted a controlled study, consisting of an interview and survey, with …

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Design Literacies & Futures Literacies: Pedagogies For Diverse Futures, Manuhuia Barcham, Gillian Russell, Criag Badke, Tyler Fox Sep 2025

Design Literacies & Futures Literacies: Pedagogies For Diverse Futures, Manuhuia Barcham, Gillian Russell, Criag Badke, Tyler Fox

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Design pedagogy is futural. Our field of practice is to create design leaders of the future. In the context of uncertain futures an exploration of design literacies and futures literacies is a means of preparing our students for what is to come. Framed as a skill that uses collective intelligence, imagination and experimentation to think about the future in innovative ways, futures literacies and, so too design literacies, are about building people’s capacities to make sense of complex situations, while crafting ways to act that are more consistent with the type of futures we want. But how is this to …

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Open Systems, Shared Practices: A Case Study For Postdisciplinary Design Education, Johannes Pointner, Albert Lang, Marc Pfaff Sep 2025

Open Systems, Shared Practices: A Case Study For Postdisciplinary Design Education, Johannes Pointner, Albert Lang, Marc Pfaff

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The M.A. Design & Computation program exemplifies the establishment of interactive learning frameworks that prioritize self-directed and collaborative approaches to knowledge production. Developed as a joint initiative by the Berlin University of the Arts and the Technical University of Berlin, the program integrates participatory design methodologies, iterative processes, and decentralized structures to address the complexities of contemporary challenges. Through key components, such as teaching, its spatial design, and its extended institutional framing, the program creates a dynamic environment where students engage in postdisciplinary collaboration and critically reflect on emerging technologies and societal issues. This paper explores how these interactive frameworks …

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Exploring The Role Of Design To Support Interdisciplinary Research In Higher Education Institutions, Rute Harada, Nina Costa, Johannes Goessling Sep 2025

Exploring The Role Of Design To Support Interdisciplinary Research In Higher Education Institutions, Rute Harada, Nina Costa, Johannes Goessling

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This paper explores how design approaches can enhance interdisciplinary research in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Through a review of fourteen recent articles (2019-2024), we analyze challenges, institutional barriers, and existing methods for measuring interdisciplinary research. Our findings reveal that while interdisciplinary research has advanced significantly, it continues to face substantial challenges across cognitive, emotional, and institutional dimensions. The analysis suggests three key areas where design can contribute: fostering collaborative research cultures, developing integrated research methods, and enhancing cross-disciplinary communication. This research identifies critical gaps in current understanding and proposes directions for future investigation, including developing systematic measurement methods and conducting …

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Bridging Academia And Industry Through Service Design: The Proposal Of Edu.Co Platform, Miray Hamarat Dundar, Şeyda Şenay Elmas, Beste Tanrıverdi Köse Sep 2025

Bridging Academia And Industry Through Service Design: The Proposal Of Edu.Co Platform, Miray Hamarat Dundar, Şeyda Şenay Elmas, Beste Tanrıverdi Köse

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This paper explores the application of service design methods and tools to develop edu.co, a proposed digital platform aimed at enhancing interaction and collaboration between academia and industry. Addressing the growing need for sustainable academic-industry networks, this study integrates a comprehensive literature review on recommendation systems, academic social networking, and multi-stakeholder collaboration, employing qualitative research methods. The study involved semi-structured interviews with 12 participants from arts and design fields, a co-design process with six participants, followed by thematic analysis. Findings reveal key challenges such as miscommunication, difficulties in identifying the right collaborators, and time management barriers. The co-design approach was …

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In Terms Of Ethics, How Might Ux Design Education Explore Mph In Health Policy Curricula, Guy-Serge Emmanuel Sep 2025

In Terms Of Ethics, How Might Ux Design Education Explore Mph In Health Policy Curricula, Guy-Serge Emmanuel

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In the fast landscape of technology and design, UX designers hold a crucial role in molding how users interact with digital products. While one of the primary goals of UX design is to enhance user satisfaction. It is also imperative we must create products for all users. It's increasingly important for UX designers to consider the ethical implications of the design decisions they make. Unfortunately, consideration towards creating a product that everyone can use is lacking. For decades, the healthcare sector was known its unethical behavior. One can look at the Tuskegee experiment, a medical study conducted by the U.S …

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Framework For Ethical Worldbuilding With Solidarity-Driven Co-Design, Laura Cechanowicz, Steven Zuiker, Michelle Jordan, Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie Sep 2025

Framework For Ethical Worldbuilding With Solidarity-Driven Co-Design, Laura Cechanowicz, Steven Zuiker, Michelle Jordan, Ed Finn, Ruth Wylie

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Diversity is a fundamental resource in co-design processes; however, centering wide-ranging participants around a design rather than individual, disciplinary, or other forms of expertise can be challenging. Expanding the scope of design to include the entanglements of temporality and community amplifies these challenges. Addressing these challenges requires a reconfiguration of the fundamental relationships between designers, researchers, research participants, collaborators, and the land and place where research and design outcomes occur, including a deeper form of engagement with communities. Despite the substantial groundwork existing approaches have developed, emerging efforts challenge us to conceptualize an ethical approach for recognizing, working with, and …

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Scale Up: Enabling Definitional Discussion In Graphic Design Using A Visual Analogue Scale (Vas), Alis Iacob, Meherunisa Baig Sep 2025

Scale Up: Enabling Definitional Discussion In Graphic Design Using A Visual Analogue Scale (Vas), Alis Iacob, Meherunisa Baig

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This letter aims to highlight some of the definitional challenges in graphic design research. The authors suggest using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), a psychometric tool traditionally employed in psychology, as a prompt for facilitating discussions around the definition of graphic design. By anchoring the scale's endpoints with the divisive concepts of "form" and "function," the proposal seeks to contextualise these diverse opinions within the historical and current complexities involved in defining graphic design. According to the literature, ambiguous viewpoints often emerge from the nature of the discipline and its evolving practices, perspectives which are frequently influenced by socio-cultural, political, …

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Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara Sep 2025

Reflective Correspondences: Letter Writing As A Tool For Design Education, Ana Cecilia Schettino, Rogerio Camara

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This paper discusses the results and content of letters written by students, as the final assignment in a design theory class. The proposal involved using correspondence as a method of reflection. The aim was to explore the pedagogical potential of letter writing to foster reflective learning in design, as well as to examine epistolary writing as an activity that promotes analytical thinking and a deeper understanding of design as both a practice and a discipline. Students were challenged to compose letters addressed to someone (living or deceased), something, or somewhere – in the past, present, or even the future – …

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Ecological Sustainability And Exhibition Design Education, Jennie Schaeffer Sep 2025

Ecological Sustainability And Exhibition Design Education, Jennie Schaeffer

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This letter reflects on the need to integrate ecological sustainability into exhibition design education. Despite growing awareness of environmental challenges, exhibition design education seems to struggle to embed sustainability as a core teaching principle. Exhibition design frequently involves temporary structures, intensive resource use, and tight deadlines, which conflict with sustainability goals.

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Evaluating Community-Academic Partnerships In Design Projects, Cambey Mikush, Cristina Leos, Jamie Nicole Elsner, Liz Chen Sep 2025

Evaluating Community-Academic Partnerships In Design Projects, Cambey Mikush, Cristina Leos, Jamie Nicole Elsner, Liz Chen

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Community and academic partnerships (CAPs) represent a dynamic interplay of stakeholders, including students, faculty, and community practitioners, who act as creators, connectors, and catalysts in the design education ecosystem. These partnerships can be mutually beneficial by providing experiences for students to engage in real-world learning while creating impact within the community served. Design courses within higher education build skills for innovative problem-solving and offer opportunities for community partners to collaboratively tackle design challenges alongside students. While the impact of design courses on student learning is well-documented, little is known about the impact on community partners. In this statement of pedagogy, …

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Design, Technology, And Cities: Integrating Design Education Into An Undergraduate Degree In Urban Technology, Matthew Wizinsky, Bryan Boyer Sep 2025

Design, Technology, And Cities: Integrating Design Education Into An Undergraduate Degree In Urban Technology, Matthew Wizinsky, Bryan Boyer

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What role might design education play in preparing urban change-makers in the 21st century? In 2021, the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning launched the first undergraduate program in the United States focused on Urban Technology. This statement of pedagogy describes how the Bachelor of Science in Urban Technology integrates design methods and coursework into a curriculum addressing the intersection of digital technology, urbanism, and city change-making. The program responds to the limited integration of service and interaction design in fields such as urban planning and architecture despite the growing need to design for human outcomes …

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Algorithmic-Narrative Machine. Micro-History Of A Dialogic-Constructionist Design Lab, Francesco Monterosso Sep 2025

Algorithmic-Narrative Machine. Micro-History Of A Dialogic-Constructionist Design Lab, Francesco Monterosso

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This contribution explores the interplay between design culture and constructionist pedagogy, highlighting how practices based on making, tinkering, and learning by doing can foster creative, collaborative, reflective, and critical learning in increasingly interconnected educational contexts. Following in the footsteps of the work and research carried out by Papert, Stager, and other scholars, it emphasizes the necessity of an inclusive, transdisciplinary approach in line with the challenges posed by the future of design education. After a brief theoretical overview—citing “designerly ways of knowing” and underscoring the importance of a dialogic, project-based epistemology—the paper presents an educational-design experience developed within the Inter/Abit/Azione …

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Unraveling The Threads: Designing A Multiverse Of Learning Through Interdisciplinary Co-Creation In Design Education, Debayan Dhar, Sugandha Gaur Sep 2025

Unraveling The Threads: Designing A Multiverse Of Learning Through Interdisciplinary Co-Creation In Design Education, Debayan Dhar, Sugandha Gaur

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This paper proposes a framework for reimagining design education as a "multiverse of learning" where students, educators, industry stakeholders, and communities co-create knowledge through intertwined experiences. It explores the roles of creators, connectors, and catalysts in this multiverse, offering a conceptual model for fostering creative collisions at the intersection of diverse disciplines. The paper also addresses critical tensions, such as ethical dilemmas, power imbalances, and the challenge of maintaining inclusivity in co-creative processes. Drawing on case studies, the paper illustrates how emerging technologies, like AI and collaborative virtual environments, can facilitate uncharted connections in design education. Finally, the paper envisions …

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From Interviews With Practitioners To Distributed Design Knowledge, Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Roman Sellner Novotný Sep 2025

From Interviews With Practitioners To Distributed Design Knowledge, Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, Roman Sellner Novotný

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Design education faces ongoing challenges in bridging the gap between theory and practice. This paper explores how practitioner voices can serve as a critical educational resource by fostering distributed and experiential learning. Using a collection of interviews conducted by students of the Information Services Design program at Masaryk University and published on Medium, this study illustrates how engaging with real-world design narratives can promote reflexivity, critical thinking, and ethical awareness in future designers. By integrating practitioner insights, students move beyond learning static epistemologies and methods toward developing adaptive approaches to complex challenges. This paper presents a model for incorporating practitioner …

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Mindful Design And Techno-Empathy. Toward A Better Tomorrow, Dominika Sobolewska Sep 2025

Mindful Design And Techno-Empathy. Toward A Better Tomorrow, Dominika Sobolewska

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This paper explores the integration of techno-empathy and mindful design as tools for addressing global challenges through speculative storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. Drawing on principles advocated by Neri Oxman and others, it positions design as a bridge between technological progress and imaginative, socially engaged practices. Design is presented not merely a as a medium of representation, but as a research method, persuasive tool, and mode of speculative fabulation—capable of crafting alternative futures through material and interactive experimentation. Mindful Design Studio (MDS) at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art & Design exemplifies these principles by emphasizing simple interactive technologies that create …

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Ug Design Education For Sustainability: Designing For Planet & For Life, Joanna Boehnert, Emma Dewberry Sep 2025

Ug Design Education For Sustainability: Designing For Planet & For Life, Joanna Boehnert, Emma Dewberry

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There is a clear need to augment and expand Design for Sustainability (DfS) and the ecological design thinking that supports it. In the UK, the Design Council’s Design for Planet and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA)’s Design for Life programmes both support this agenda. As design educators who have spent our careers advancing ecological and sustainability literacies in Design Education for Sustainability (DEfS), we enthusiastically welcome the momentum generated by both programmes. The Design for Planet mission aims to upskill 1 million UK designers in green design skills by 2030. The RSA’s Capabilities for Life Framework presents life-centric mindsets …

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Designing Curriculum With A Difference: The Nguzo Saba As Pedagogy, Kathy Moscou Sep 2025

Designing Curriculum With A Difference: The Nguzo Saba As Pedagogy, Kathy Moscou

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Design education has not substantially evolved and for generations of design students Eurocentric influence has been canonized. Not surprisingly, design educators perpetuate the ideologies they learned and the practices they have been taught. Non-European design traditions and designers continue to be othered or are made invisible in contemporary curriculum. The centering of Eurocentric design pedagogy and curriculum and decentering of design knowledges and contributions by other cultures, negates the lived experience of Indigenous, Black diaspora and other racialized students and restricts ways to characterize competence. Black students in Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) schools have reported …

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From Diamonds To Braids: New Metaphors For Teaching Transformative Design, Melanie Kahl Sep 2025

From Diamonds To Braids: New Metaphors For Teaching Transformative Design, Melanie Kahl

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Drawing from my experience as a hybrid practitioner-educator, this pedagogical statement examines how we teach the invisible dimensions of transformative design. While traditional design process diagrams and metaphors—from squiggles to diamonds—effectively structure design activities, they fall short in teaching students how to facilitate transformative design processes. I propose braiding as a complementary cross-cultural metaphor that illuminates the concurrent processes woven through design work. I define four fundamental strands that expert practitioners weave into complex design processes: learning (growing capacity), narrative (weaving stories), relationships (growing connections and trust), and change (rehearsing transformation). This framework emerged from my practice of teaching students …

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Núcleo Adela’S Manifesto: Identity As Collective Creation, Beatriz Leal, Lizbeth Bravo, Patricia Sánchez, Daniela Moyano-Dávila, Olga Vio Sep 2025

Núcleo Adela’S Manifesto: Identity As Collective Creation, Beatriz Leal, Lizbeth Bravo, Patricia Sánchez, Daniela Moyano-Dávila, Olga Vio

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Núcleo Adela emerged in Chile in 2024 when a group of designers and educators gathered around a common concern: How can feminist design be practiced and taught in the Global South? This question, which challenged the current design state, marked the beginning of a collective project seeking to define itself and express its vision publicly. The process made us question how we wanted to build our identity, driving us to reflect deeply on who we are and how we represent ourselves. This sparked an exercise in co-designing identity, where poetry and openness became key tools in shaping a sensitive and …

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Connecting The Dots Through Visuals-Driven Data Collection, Carly Hagins, Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, Benjamin Bush Sep 2025

Connecting The Dots Through Visuals-Driven Data Collection, Carly Hagins, Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, Benjamin Bush

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This research explores career trajectories in an effort to increase diversity in design. It connects designers to their past by way of visually telling their story, to discover hidden patterns and shared experiences. This research disrupts traditional data collection by leveraging a visual prompting template which has been tested through a series of interactive, hands-on workshops. The template served as a catalyst, encouraging designers to articulate and visually depict their career journeys. This study investigates how designers engaged with this template and the subsequent development of their narratives, in order to solicit deeper connections to their career paths. It scrutinizes …

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Teaching Contemporary Design Methods In Highly Regulated Industries: A Case Study, Jasmine Sarin, Asawer Ahyed, Santosh Basapur, Raj Shah, Zach Pino Sep 2025

Teaching Contemporary Design Methods In Highly Regulated Industries: A Case Study, Jasmine Sarin, Asawer Ahyed, Santosh Basapur, Raj Shah, Zach Pino

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This paper presents an examination of teaching contemporary design methods to professionals in highly regulated industries; defined as sectors characterized by extensive government oversight, strict compliance requirements, standardized processes, and formal risk management protocols that significantly constrain operational decision-making and innovation approaches. While design thinking has gained widespread adoption across many sectors, professionals in highly regulated industries often need help with design approaches due to perceived conflicts with evidence-based practices and regulatory requirements. Through a structured series of workshops, we contended with these dynamics while introducing systems thinking and futuring methods to medical researchers and community navigators. The study addresses …

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Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl Sep 2025

Creating Landscapes: Sustainable Insights Through Art-Based Methods, Karolina Uggla, Andrea Hvistendahl

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The interactive, art-based workshop concept Creating Landscapes was piloted twice in November 2024. The workshop invites participants to critically engage with questions of sustainability and materiality through hands-on interaction with discarded objects, addressing the complexity of planetary and societal resources and life in a concrete way. The workshop starts from how we interact with material artefacts and how to create new landscapes and see things differently. Following the initial implementations, we – the designers and facilitators – collected participant feedback to inform future iterations. This case study provides a description of the workshop idea, its implementation process, and preliminary insights, …

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Integrated Design For Museums And Marginal Areas: Exhibit, Graphic And Interaction Design, Lucilla Calogero, Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Gabriele Toneguzzi Sep 2025

Integrated Design For Museums And Marginal Areas: Exhibit, Graphic And Interaction Design, Lucilla Calogero, Emanuela Bonini Lessing, Gabriele Toneguzzi

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The case study delves into the practices and methodologies employed within CarniaMusei, a network of about 40 small museums located in a mountainous area of 1200 km² in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy. The project aims to intertwine design education with cultural heritage preservation in a marginalized territory. The contribution illustrates how exhibition design, visual communication and interaction design are combined to create dynamic, multifunctional spaces that serve as cultural, social, and educational hubs. By involving local stakeholders, students, and educators in participatory processes, the outcomes promote inclusivity, sustainability, and adaptability – core principles that align with the …

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Let’S Figure This Out Together: Building Social Support Through Cross-Pollinative Design Studio Pedagogy, Zhengping Liow, Ye Zhang Sep 2025

Let’S Figure This Out Together: Building Social Support Through Cross-Pollinative Design Studio Pedagogy, Zhengping Liow, Ye Zhang

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In an era characterised by global interconnectedness and complexity, integrating diverse perspectives through cross-pollinative design processes has become paramount. However, the unidirectional, the ubiquitous One-on-One Master-Apprentice design studio pedagogy has negated the potential of Social Support towards a divergent and explorative design process. This study discussed the impact of social support on academic scores of beginning design students in two district studio pedagogical frameworks: the traditional One-on-One Master-Apprentice model and the experimental Cross-pollinative Team Learning (CTL) studio pedagogy. With a longitudinal quantitative Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) design, participants’ perceptions of Social Support as Teacher-student relationship (TSR) and Student-student relationship (SSR) …

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Social Action, Service Learning, And Youth Development, Joan Arches Sep 2025

Social Action, Service Learning, And Youth Development, Joan Arches

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University service-learning students worked with middle school youth in a social change project addressing positive youth development and civic engagement. Based on their knowledge of positive youth development theory and British Social Action, they facilitated a weekly group in which the youth identified combatting oppression by teachers (adultism) for their project. They discussed the problem, designed surveys, analyzed the data, and presented their findings. The youth demonstrated individual competencies and connected with adults while they learned to work collectively in a community change project.

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Bridging The Divide: From Service To Public Work, Paul N. Markham Sep 2025

Bridging The Divide: From Service To Public Work, Paul N. Markham

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An important aspect of public higher education is the development of active citizens. Students should leave our institutions not only with an appreciation for the value of community service, but also having the vital knowledge, skills, and dispositions to be public problem solvers. This article is a reflection on one professor’s experience of teaching students for active citizenship by moving from a service mindset to an emphasis on public work. This account emphasizes public work as a critical pedagogy for a potential next phase of civic engagement in higher education, which focuses on the development of student civic agency in …

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Community-Based Learning Experiences Of Graduate Education Students Within Applied Statistics And Science: Emerging Insights, Carla J. Thompson, Sandra B. Davis Sep 2025

Community-Based Learning Experiences Of Graduate Education Students Within Applied Statistics And Science: Emerging Insights, Carla J. Thompson, Sandra B. Davis

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Integrating community-based learning in graduate education programs is an emerging trend in the United States. This study examined community engagement in graduate educational statistics and science education using four procedures: (1) defining a conceptual framework aligned with National Standards for Community Engagement; (2) examining 10 community-based learning applications from graduate education programs in statistics and science relative to standards; (3) determining specific emerging characteristics of community-based learning; and (4) providing insights for graduate education programs.

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Mentoring Incarcerated Youth: A Community-Based Learning Experience, Mitzi Lowe, Nancy Nisbett Sep 2025

Mentoring Incarcerated Youth: A Community-Based Learning Experience, Mitzi Lowe, Nancy Nisbett

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Recognizing the importance of university and community partnerships to address social issues, a mentoring program was implemented on a juvenile justice campus (JJC). A collaborative effort between a regional Hispanic-serving university, the county probation department, and a non-profit agency resulted in the development and implementation of a mentoring program with incarcerated youth. Students assisted in the development and implementation of the mentoring program, which incorporated life skills development, violence prevention, financial planning, parenting groups, needs assessments, and meditation. Student perceptions of their experience were explored using qualitative research methods. Educational benefits, the importance of collaboration, and the relationship between self-efficacy …

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Engagement Of Community Health Workers In The Research Enterprise: A Survey Of Organizations And The Research Roles Given Chws, Holly C. Felix, Delia Lee, Kathryn Stewart, Paul G. Greene Sep 2025

Engagement Of Community Health Workers In The Research Enterprise: A Survey Of Organizations And The Research Roles Given Chws, Holly C. Felix, Delia Lee, Kathryn Stewart, Paul G. Greene

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Community health workers (CHWs) have long been engaged by organizations to assist underserved populations with unmet health-related needs. CHWs’ roles in effectively addressing service and health barriers—for example, through navigation and health promotion—are well established. Few published studies address how the skills and roles of CHWs are applied to support research, though similar barriers exist. To address this gap, we surveyed CHW programs about the extent and type of CHW involvement supporting research.

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