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Data: Y-Serve Participants Notes, Yoshihiko Ariizumi
Data: Y-Serve Participants Notes, Yoshihiko Ariizumi
Spiritual Proficiency
This data of 500 plus notes originally hand-written by the participants in the Y-Serve programs is a great resource to know their experiences in service learning. The compiler wishes that this document assists those who write essays or do extended research projects to illuminate and promote service learning in our educational settings.
Modern-Day Slavery: Equipping The Next Generation For Social Change, Margaret Tienhaara
Modern-Day Slavery: Equipping The Next Generation For Social Change, Margaret Tienhaara
Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement
Margaret Tienhaara is a freshman at Purdue University in the College of Liberal Arts majoring in global studies and political science. Her dream is to promote education for impoverished children in underdeveloped nations. In this article, she describes her process of organizing a presentation about modern-day slavery for 100 eighth grade students from Tecumseh Junior High School. The goal was to challenge the students to consider a major such as Purdue’s Global Studies and learn about creating social change.
What Are You Doing For Others?, Traci Pearl, Sasha Elias
What Are You Doing For Others?, Traci Pearl, Sasha Elias
Progressive Education in Context
Discusses the community service projects, an important component in the curriculum of the School for Children.
The Impact Of College Student Immersion Service Learning Trips On Coping With Stress And Vocational Identity, Brad A. Mills, Richard B. Bersamina, Thomas G. Plante
The Impact Of College Student Immersion Service Learning Trips On Coping With Stress And Vocational Identity, Brad A. Mills, Richard B. Bersamina, Thomas G. Plante
Psychology
This study examined the impact of service learning immersion trips on vocational identity and coping with stress among college students. Fifty-one students (15 males, 36 females) who participated in immersion trips and 76 students (25 males, 51 females) in a non-immersion control group completed a series of questionnaires directly before and immediately after both fall and spring break immersion trips, and during a four-month follow up. Results suggest that, after returning from an immersion trip, students report a greater ability to cope with stress and a somewhat stronger sense of vocational identity relative to students who do not participate in …