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Urban University Community Engagement: Questions Of Commitment To Democratic Ethics And Social Change, Khaula Murtadha Sep 2025

Urban University Community Engagement: Questions Of Commitment To Democratic Ethics And Social Change, Khaula Murtadha

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper examines ethical issues underpinning urban university engagement in community spaces. The intent is to encourage an evaluation stance and consider how university representatives and community representatives might justly approach and develop partnerships. The paper questions whether faculty, staff, and community partners take action to cultivate public dialogue, or what might be called democratic voice, to bring about social change. Social change organizations unambiguously try to affect and reshape public and environmental affairs, group dynamics, processes, and outcomes. Are the university administration and faculty, in partnership with community stakeholders, ready to take on the charge of social change organization?

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In Like Flint: How The Innovation Incubator At Um‐Flint Fosters Social Entrepreneurship In A City Remaking Itself, Nic Custer Sep 2025

In Like Flint: How The Innovation Incubator At Um‐Flint Fosters Social Entrepreneurship In A City Remaking Itself, Nic Custer

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper focuses on how the University of Michigan-Flint’s Innovation Incubator supports emerging for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations through programming, business plan development, and ongoing mentorship. The incubator is especially interested in supporting start -ups that address key social issues in the surrounding community, including economic vitality. This goal aligns with the university’s mission, which emphasizes that engaged citizens can exercise some control over the social, environmental, and economic factors in the larger community.

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Learning Mathematics: A Community Collaboration, Sayonita Ghosh Hajra Sep 2025

Learning Mathematics: A Community Collaboration, Sayonita Ghosh Hajra

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This study provides a “snapshot” of a service-learning activity in an elementary school with fu-ture elementary teachers in a southern public university in a mathematics content course on arithmetic in constructing equivalent fractions by comprehending the importance of the whole in fractions. This study also demonstrates how a service-learning activity can be incorporated into a mathematics content course to give a meaningful interpretation of abstract mathematics to future elementary teachers. It provided the future teachers a platform to work with children to connect a fun-filled activity with one of the most difficult concepts in elementary mathematics—fractions. Findings of the activity …

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The Higher Educational Institution Assesses The Community Partnership In Service Learning: One Strategy For Institutionalizing Service Learning, Susan Waters Sep 2025

The Higher Educational Institution Assesses The Community Partnership In Service Learning: One Strategy For Institutionalizing Service Learning, Susan Waters

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

While a growing number of institutions offer service-learning courses, there is relatively little literature on the assessment of community partnerships with the institution. This study offers substantive institutional-community partner survey question examples from Campus Compact member websites targeting institutional assessment of the community partnership for ascertaining both the quality and effectiveness of service-learning on campus and for accreditation purposes. There is a paucity of service-learning institutional assessment research, and this study attempts to alleviate that gap.

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Needs Assessment Of An International Service-Learning Program: An Innovative Approach To Community-Based Learning, Sara Pullen Sep 2025

Needs Assessment Of An International Service-Learning Program: An Innovative Approach To Community-Based Learning, Sara Pullen

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This study used an original survey to evaluate the physical therapy and education needs of health care workers affiliated with a community hospital in the Dominican Republic. Results suggest that health care workers affiliated with this hospital could be an ideal audience to focus the initiation of a sustainable rehabilitation training program. The survey described can assist other academic physical therapy and medical programs in the planning and implementation of international service-learning opportunities for students and faculty by providing a guide for assessing the needs of local stakeholders.

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Bingocizetm: Successful Integration Of Intergenerational Service-Learning Into An Exercise Science Practicum Project, K. Jason Crandall Sep 2025

Bingocizetm: Successful Integration Of Intergenerational Service-Learning Into An Exercise Science Practicum Project, K. Jason Crandall

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Intergenerational service-learning was used to meet course learning outcomes for an exercise science practicum while increasing older adults’ physical activity participation. Five practicum students researched, planned, and executed a combination bingo and exercise program (BingocizeTM) twice per week (45-60 minutes sessions) at a low-income independent living facility located near campus. The results of the program were positive as evidenced by achievement of student learning outcomes and improvements in older adults’ overall well-being.

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Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil Sep 2025

Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion, Jennifer Cutler Merritt, Loren Intolubbe-Chmil

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

While many K-12 alternative education programs use innovative pedagogy and practice, the students who attend them often remain educationally marginalized. Simultaneously, in higher education, experiential learning courses grounded in the theory of engaged scholarship have frequently cast alternative K-12 students in roles subordinate to those of their college student “helpers.” This paper sets forth a preliminary analysis of a community-university positive youth development model as an asset-based approach promoting mutuality and transformation, in the spirit of Freire’s conscientização.

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Incubating Grassroots Nonprofits: A Service-Learning Approach To Organizational Capacity Building With Communities Of Immigrant And Refugee Background, Nancy Winemiller Basinger, Rosemarie Hunter Sep 2025

Incubating Grassroots Nonprofits: A Service-Learning Approach To Organizational Capacity Building With Communities Of Immigrant And Refugee Background, Nancy Winemiller Basinger, Rosemarie Hunter

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper explains the development of a community-university partnership responding to community-identified needs and toward the goal of creating a nonprofit incubator in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our research draws on several years of partnership work with communities of immigrant and refugee experiences. As groups of immigrant and refugee background settle in new communities, they seek to serve the members of their ethnic community. Leaders emerge and begin to organize groups to meet the specialized community needs they have identified. Increasingly these groups are organized as nonprofits. Emerging micro-nonprofits often struggle to find connections and navigate systems that support organizational …

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The Evolution Of An Urban Design Curriculum In Landscape Architecture And A Community-Based Design Center, Frank Sleegers, John R. Taylor Sep 2025

The Evolution Of An Urban Design Curriculum In Landscape Architecture And A Community-Based Design Center, Frank Sleegers, John R. Taylor

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Urban community-based design centers have multiple potential functions. Ideally, they give voice to previously underrepresented groups in public discussions of urban design and environmental change. When combined with a university design curriculum, they can be training grounds for a new generation of urban designers sensitive to the needs, wants, and desires of local stakeholders. This study describes the co-evolution of an urban design curriculum at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a design center in the nearby city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Four key areas related to community service learning were evaluated through a mixed methods approach including historical analysis, qualitative …

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Bifascicular Block: Harmless Finding Or A Red Flag?, Muhammad Asad Hanif Sep 2025

Bifascicular Block: Harmless Finding Or A Red Flag?, Muhammad Asad Hanif

Transformative Medicine

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Community Service In Saudi Arabian Universities: A Comparative Study, Hesham K. Alfares, Muhammad H. Al-Haboubi, Mesfer M. Al-Zahrani Sep 2025

Community Service In Saudi Arabian Universities: A Comparative Study, Hesham K. Alfares, Muhammad H. Al-Haboubi, Mesfer M. Al-Zahrani

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

A comparative analysis is presented of community service activities in Saudi Arabian Universities. The methodology includes literature surveys, benchmarking, questionnaires, and focus group meetings. Community service definitions and activities are surveyed around the world. A benchmarking comparison is made between community service programs in 10 major Saudi universities and 20 top American universities. The current status of community service in Saudi universities is evaluated, and several improvement strategies are proposed.

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Reading Beyond Research Results: The Hidden Curriculum In A College And Urban High Schools Partnership, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers Sep 2025

Reading Beyond Research Results: The Hidden Curriculum In A College And Urban High Schools Partnership, Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The article draws from a study of a Gear Up partnership between a predominantly white middle class college and four urban high schools with a majority of low-income students of color. Teacher education candidates participated in community engagement through Gear Up at four urban high schools. The study shows that both college and high school students benefited from the partnership. However, employing internal and anticolonial theoretical lenses reveals the hidden curriculum that the positive results attained from the partnership may serve to buttress the myth of dominant culture’s supremacy.

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Impact Of Degrees Of Service On Alumni Career Development, Judith Warchal, Ana Ruiz Sep 2025

Impact Of Degrees Of Service On Alumni Career Development, Judith Warchal, Ana Ruiz

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper presents the results of a survey that assessed the long-term impact of varying degrees of service on alumni employment and attitudes toward careers. Alumni with service-learning and other service experiences (SL plus group) felt it was important to work to correct inequalities, to provide a service to others, to make a difference in the community, and agreed that their service, academic, and social experiences affected their career development.

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Democracy In Action: The Contribution Of The Debatewatch Project To Civic Participation, Barbara A. Pickering, Leslie A. Rill Sep 2025

Democracy In Action: The Contribution Of The Debatewatch Project To Civic Participation, Barbara A. Pickering, Leslie A. Rill

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Every four years, Americans participate in political talk about the presidential campaigns with co-workers, family, and friends. This communication impacts attitudes toward civic engagement. Using the 2008 presidential election as a focal point, this study seeks to understand the impact of communication among citizens who engaged in political discussions at DebateWatch events. We examine the effect of debate viewing and post-debate discussions on perceptions of political information gained and increased interest in a presidential campaign.

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Current Research Interests In International Service-Learning, Jessica Arends Sep 2025

Current Research Interests In International Service-Learning, Jessica Arends

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper aims to identify and present what research perspectives are currently practiced in the field of international service learning (ISL) in higher education. The author gathered articles on ISL from high-profile publications and analyzed the methodological lens from which each study was conducted. Using the knowledge-constitutive framework of Jürgen Habermas, each article was categorized as technical, practical, or critical. The author found that while the majority of studies in the ISL field are conducted from a practical research interest, the articles most commonly cited are technical. This analysis is followed by an exploration as to why research interests are …

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The Application Of Universal Design & Digital Tools In Fashion Education, Richard Herriott, Christel Arnevik Sep 2025

The Application Of Universal Design & Digital Tools In Fashion Education, Richard Herriott, Christel Arnevik

Learn X Design Conference Series

A user-centred design process is reported in relation to fashion design teaching. Universal Design thinking is allied with the use of digital scanning tools and a suite of user-cented design methods. The area of interest is how this changes the self-understanding of the students and their design process. The results are insights on how user-orientated thinking produce changes in attitudes and work methods for the design students. Also reported are observations on the effects of selective use of in-person volunteers (as models) and virtual design tools. There is discussion of the persona design tool in contrast to in-person design for …

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The University Hacks The Museum: Learning In The Wild, Jennie Schaeffer, Mia Sas Sep 2025

The University Hacks The Museum: Learning In The Wild, Jennie Schaeffer, Mia Sas

Learn X Design Conference Series

This study explores the collaboration between a museum and a university, which has lasted for over a decade. By integrating design students into the process of critically assessing and hacking exhibitions, the museum and the university has created a dynamic environment where new stories, unseen props, and innovative interactions are introduced to existing exhibitions. The partnership involves diverse expertise from educators, researchers, young adults, visitors and museum staff. The collaboration emphasizes hands-on participation, allowing students to engage with real-world exhibition practices as hackers of the permanent exhibitions. The aim of the study is to describe the working methods and to …

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Dynamic Linkage For Understanding Design Knowledge, Sungho Lee Sep 2025

Dynamic Linkage For Understanding Design Knowledge, Sungho Lee

Learn X Design Conference Series

Understanding Design Knowledge (DK) remains an ongoing debate that encompasses diverse perspectives—from traditional academic theories to various practical methods and processes. The advancement of Design Education is guided by DK, and DK is shaped within Design Activity (DA). However, as socio-cultural problems become increasingly complex, DA has evolved into a more ambiguous and expansive concept. Similarly, the scope and definition of DK remain elusive and difficult to determine. In other words, DK is not a substance that can be easily described or defined, and the concept of DA is too intricate to be fully clarified today. Furthermore, the boundaries of …

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Revisiting The Design Of Industrial Design Studio Space: A Reflective Discussion, Isil Oygur, John Dixon Sep 2025

Revisiting The Design Of Industrial Design Studio Space: A Reflective Discussion, Isil Oygur, John Dixon

Learn X Design Conference Series

The professional practice of industrial design, as well as the spatial design of classrooms and workplaces, has undergone significant transformations over the years. The same cannot be said for the core learning space of industrial design, the studio. Much design education is built around studio culture, following an adage that students will learn from their peers as much as from instructors. This collaborative learning aspect of industrial design has been challenged as design work has become predominantly digital. While scholars focus on pedagogy to address concerns and advance design education, the significance of physical learning space on teaching and learning …

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Education Through Design For Social Empowerment, Lorenzo Imbesi, Luca D'Elia Sep 2025

Education Through Design For Social Empowerment, Lorenzo Imbesi, Luca D'Elia

Learn X Design Conference Series

The critical framework of education through Design-based practices emphasizes hands-on, experiential learning and its role in expanding STEAM education models. This approach leverages enabling technologies, such as digital fabrication tools, to provide transformative educational experiences that address societal challenges. This contribution explores how Design-based educational practices can serve as tools for social empowerment in marginalized communities, specifically examining the integration of STEAM methodologies with digital fabrication technologies to address educational poverty and foster social inclusion. The study discusses a case study focused on eight workshops in Ostia Ponente, where collaboration between universities, local authorities, and social organizations sought to combat …

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Outlining The Experience Of A Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements In Design Education, Monja Hirscher Sep 2025

Outlining The Experience Of A Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements In Design Education, Monja Hirscher

Learn X Design Conference Series

If design is understood in a posthumanist sense as a practice that creates encounters between human and non-human actors, it can be interesting to look at the encounters or entanglements rather than at the things that emerge, as these develop the practitioner in the form of relationships, experiences, and learnings. The text traces the author’s craft-based and process-oriented practice in candy making and observes the situated entanglements that arise in the process, which lead to a proposal of anchor points to reflect on such a practice in educational settings. The individually emerging connections to becoming, bodies, places, times, actors, and …

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The Impact Of Walking Without Digital Distractions On Design Creativity, Joao Ferreira Sep 2025

The Impact Of Walking Without Digital Distractions On Design Creativity, Joao Ferreira

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper aims to understand whether walking without digital distractions can enhance creativity during the ideation process in design education. The study involved ninety-seven third-year undergraduate design students in an experiment examining the relationship between solitude, walking, and ideation. Students were divided into two groups: an experimental group of forty-four students instructed to take walks without mobile phones during the ideation phase of their design process and a control group of fifty-three students who remained in the design studio. Both groups were tasked with generating design solutions for the same brief. Results showed that the experimental group produced ideas with …

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Design Literacy In Undergraduate Education For Non-Design Fields, Derya Yorgancıoğlu, Esin Kömez Dağlıoğlu, Yeşim Çapa Aydın Sep 2025

Design Literacy In Undergraduate Education For Non-Design Fields, Derya Yorgancıoğlu, Esin Kömez Dağlıoğlu, Yeşim Çapa Aydın

Learn X Design Conference Series

This study dwells on the consideration that design literacy offers a holistic framework for design thinking that fosters the development of 'new literacies' essential for today’s world. Design thinking is increasingly adopted in higher education, particularly in non-design fields. However, design literacy isn't being integrated effectively, which significantly hinders a comprehensive understanding and application of design principles. This study explores how design literacy differs from design thinking and why it's important today. It points to the need to reconsider the dimensions of design thinking, as a well-confirmed concept in the literature. It portrays the findings of a case-study that inquires …

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The Ongoing Evolution Of Design: New Life Forms, Manuela Maier-Hummel Sep 2025

The Ongoing Evolution Of Design: New Life Forms, Manuela Maier-Hummel

Learn X Design Conference Series

As our world is getting super-complex and human’s influence creates disastrous effects on our planet, it becomes vital to nurture design-specific, future-oriented knowledge and skills to establish a mediating environment. How can an interdisciplinary design curriculum support the evolution of future-oriented and sustainable ecologies encouraging creative collaboration inventing, rethinking, and recreating the world? This research explores a novel bachelor’s programme between multidisciplinary faculties of Computer Science and Design and Art to educate future information technology and design specialists together. It examines the qualities of Design interweaving with Computer Science merging into a next-level design culture. From a design researcher’s point …

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A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina Sep 2025

A Post-Anthropocentric Creative Mindset Through Design Education, Eva Monestier, Marita Canina

Learn X Design Conference Series

Planet Earth is experiencing profound and irreversible transformations caused by the ongoing climate crisis. Simultaneously, technological advancements often create a misleading belief that these complex issues can be solved through with simple tech-fixes. However, to address the root causes of unsustainability, a radical shift in mindset is necessary. It is essential to challenge anthropocentric Euromodern narratives based on binary categories (nature-culture, humans-nonhumans), which have historically perpetuated detachment from the environment. Instead, a more relational understanding of reality is needed - one that positions humans and nonhumans within a more-than-human web of life. This shift necessitates the development of new design …

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Practicing Constructive Feedback During Design Projects, Saadeddine Shehab, Amanda Henderson, Daniel Lewis Sep 2025

Practicing Constructive Feedback During Design Projects, Saadeddine Shehab, Amanda Henderson, Daniel Lewis

Learn X Design Conference Series

Purposefully embedding feedback tasks in existing higher education courses can be one way to support students in developing feedback literacy. Courses that introduce students to Human-Centered Design (HCD) are optimal for engaging students in providing and receiving constructive feedback. This study explored how students engaged in providing constructive feedback to their peers as they worked on a design challenge in an 8-week introduction to HCD course. Students used a digital platform that allows the instructor to create feedback sessions and prompt students to answer questions or add hashtags that can foster their engagement in constructive feedback. In this course, 11 …

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Teaching Materials Experiments In Product Design, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer Sep 2025

Teaching Materials Experiments In Product Design, Sandra Dittenberger, Stefan Moritsch, Agnes Raschauer

Learn X Design Conference Series

Ecological challenges have moved the engagement with materials to the forefront in product design as well as in design education. Apart from the focus on materials experience, increased attention is being placed upon the development of (new) materials in the process of designing. While there is no shortage of diverse approaches and methods for conducting materials experiments, the handling of the knowledge gained in the course does not yet approach scientific standards. The increasingly transdisciplinary context in which designers collaborate with other disciplines generates a growing need to prove the effectiveness and possible impact of the results gained. Thus, product …

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Unfolding Interactions In Design Studio Courses: Visual Tools For Design Critiques In Terms Of Content And Style, Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

Unfolding Interactions In Design Studio Courses: Visual Tools For Design Critiques In Terms Of Content And Style, Onur Yılmaz, Koray Gelmez

Learn X Design Conference Series

Knowledge in design studios is mostly constructed via discussions, dialogues or in a systematic way, critiques. Thus, understanding design critiques is crucial for evaluating and improving design studio courses, and thus learning and teaching experiences. This paper introduces two visual tools that can assist in categorising design critiques in terms of their flow, content and style. The first tool visualises the intensity and distribution of different critique categories to make the topics and ways to generate critiques explicit. The latter illustrates the correlations between content and style in critiques and reveals the potential relationships between them. These tools aim to; …

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Exploring The Potential Of Dramatherapy In Designers’ Education, Erik Ciravegna, Glenda Pagnocelli, Elisa Vacondio Sep 2025

Exploring The Potential Of Dramatherapy In Designers’ Education, Erik Ciravegna, Glenda Pagnocelli, Elisa Vacondio

Learn X Design Conference Series

In recent decades, design has transformed from a craft activity based mainly on manual skills and aesthetics to a strategic discipline that requires a systemic and multidisciplinary vision. Today’s designers need to cultivate soft skills such as creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration alongside traditional technical competencies. Dramatherapy, being an experiential, emotionally expressive, and conscious approach, proves to be a useful tool for acquiring these soft skills. Theatrical games, improvisation, storytelling, and dramatization techniques, such as role-playing and staging metaphors, enable design students to see different perspectives, participate in complex situations, and experience innovative ways of interaction. This contribution offers …

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What Is Missing In The Loop?: Design Graduates' Perspective On Circular Design, Seher Naz Ayhan Arda, Koray Gelmez Sep 2025

What Is Missing In The Loop?: Design Graduates' Perspective On Circular Design, Seher Naz Ayhan Arda, Koray Gelmez

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Design for the circular economy has been defined in various ways in the literature. To date, discussions have centered on the roles of designers, design strategies, required knowledge and competencies, and the challenges encountered by design practitioners. Gaining a deeper understanding of circular design is crucial for facilitating the transition to a circular economy and enabling designers to integrate such approaches into their professional practices. Although the circular economy is an emerging field of study in design education, it is difficult to find studies that examine how design graduates conceptualize circular design. Addressing this gap, this study aims to unveil …

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