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2008-2009 Service-Learning Visiting Tutor Scheme, Maria Corazon Reano

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

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Must Learning Through Serving : Academic Service-Learning Model At Minghsin University Of Science And Technology In Taiwan, Wu Der Jeng, Shun Shiang Yeh, Hsiao Chi Chiu

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

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The Multiple Roles Of Learner : The Reflection In Service-Learning Methods, Lilianny Sigit Arifin

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

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Active Learning, Action Research : Integrating Service-Learning In Furniture Design Curricula, Mariana Wibowo

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

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Reflection In Service-Learning : Strategies And Resources, Pitchumani Angayarkanni Sekaran, Jayachandra Navaneetharaj

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

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Supporting Student Civic Engagement Beyond The Initial Service-Learning Experience : The Intercultural Leadership Program At Poole Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan, Linda Diane Musselwhite, Seki Ayako, Morisada Reiko

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

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The Impact Of Service-Learning In Supporting Family Empowerment And Welfare Program : Case Study : Packaging Design Class Project For Micro Industries In Kediri, Listia Natadjaja, Yohanes Budi Cahyono

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

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Core Business Courses With A Service-Learning Component?, Yuk Lan Wong, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Hok Ka, Carol Ma

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

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“Classroom-In-Community : Serving The Elderly People, Learning From Senior Citizens” : A Communitarian Approach To Community-Based Service-Learning For Secondary School Students In Hong Kong, Kwok Bong Chan

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

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Service-Learning In Tourism, Denis Simond

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

Service-Learning as a teaching methodology is categorized as experiential education, or learning by doing. Projects aid the development of local community infrastructure and/or conservation.

By involving a diverse range of people in experiential education, knowledge, skills and motivation needed to understand culture differences and foster environmental and community awareness are gained. Structured opportunities are created to evaluate the service experience, allowing participants to be constantly aware of the impact of their work.

The presentation includes Odyssey’s Service-Learning Guidelines and features the following examples:

• Seniors – Research & Service Projects
  
• Intergenerational – Lingnan University Students & Seniors
  
• USA Fulbright / Hayes …

Cross-Countries Experiences In Organizing Service-Learning Programs, Kano Yamamoto

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

The purpose of my presentation is to conceptually clarify the role of Service-Learning (S-L) in establishing mutual trust, peace and security under the globalized today’s world. Through our experiences, it has become evident that the international S-L is a powerful means in overcoming cultural diversity thereby building peaceful world. The globalization, beside its positive aspects, brings serious problems such as market failures, identity crisis, fundamentalism, inequity, etc., which brings uncertainty and human insecurity. To deal with these problems, we need to emphasize very basic human values universally found in most communities; “Back to Basics”. S-L is quite powerful where participants …

Promoting Service-Learning In China : Historical, Cross-Cultural, And Interdisciplinary Issues And Perspectives, Sheying Chen

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

The motto “serve the people” tended to yield lip service under the politicization and de-politicization of the Chinese economic state (Chen, 2004). Recent change in China’s general public policy (GPP) has shown a growing commitment to service as a government function and social aspiration. Higher education as a social institution has also experienced dramatic changes, from “serve proletarian politics” to “serve modernization construction”. “Serve the people” is now paid new attention in Chinese higher education policy. Although Chinese institutions of higher education have long engaged students in “practical learning”, promoting service as a learning activity and pedagogy requires a more …

Service-Learning In Tertiary Institutes : Nurturing A Giving Culture Among U-Students In Hong Kong, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan

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

Lingnan University is the first University in Hong Kong to set up an Office of Service-Learning that echoes its long-standing motto, ‘Education for Service’. Our mission, following the same tradition enacted in the 70s by the US leading universities, is not only to develop able scholars, but also to serve our community with the knowledge learned in classrooms. Service-Learning seeks to provide a vital university-community link through which students can find meanings in academic pursuits and in helping those in need. Serving in real life situations also facilitates students’ learning in lifelong commitments to community service, research and leadership. In …

The Effects Of A Facilitator In The Performance Of A Heterogeneous Working Group : A Service-Learning Exploration In Technology Education, Shing Sun Li

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

The importance of scientific knowledge and technology in daily life is duly emphasized in the reformed curriculum. Also, the mode of learning and teaching is to change from teacher-centered approach to cooperative approach. ‘Learning-by- doing’ and ‘cooperative-learning’ are considered as effective means to learn. Being a pioneer in science and technology education, the researcher’s school organizes workshops for primary students and their families across the Territories each year. In the workshop held last November, secondary students who acted as facilitators, practiced their ‘generic skills’ whilst the primary students and their parents ‘constructed’ knowledge and consequently ‘valued’ their family activities. The …

The Quest For Learning In Service-Learning : Approaches And Variations In The Asia-Pacific, Betty Cernol-Mccann

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

The practice of Service-Learning as a teaching methodology has varying approaches across learning communities. This is to be expected of a methodology that recognizes diversities, context-based learning, and meaning-making in teaching-learning. As a communal learning enterprise, how can learning be enhanced in Service-Learning? How can Service-Learning aid the formation of a learning community? Based on her observation of the Service-Learning practices in the Asia-Pacific, the author proposes ways to maximize learning outcomes through partnerships and building of alliances.

Service-Learning In The Usa And South Africa : The Influence Of Student Development, Timothy K. Stanton

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

This presentation focuses on the history, theoretical foundations, and broad practice of Service-Learning in two different contexts; the United States and South Africa. It examines Service-Learning pedagogy’s design and practice - curricular, co-curricular, or non-formal – utilized in both countries noting the influence of evolving theories of student development - intellectual, moral, civic - in order to engage conference participants in reflecting on appropriate application and possible futures in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Cross Boarders And Reap Beyond The Obvious Outcomes, Jane Szutu Permaul

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

What borders are we talking about, and how might we be enriched by crossing these borders? Answers to these questions can broaden our horizons with reference to the borders that we need to cross in order to develop and institutionalized Service-Learning. Furthermore, identification of outcomes from Service-Learning beyond the obvious is essential to integrate Service-Learning into the academic curricula. We know that Service-Learning yield student learning, but is it worth academic credits? We know community service is performed, but what else?

Service-Learning As A University-Wide Program : Rationales And Issues, Kwan Yiu, Edward Chen

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

Service-Learning plays a significant role in liberal arts education which is the preferred form of undergraduate education for meeting the challenges of the New /Creative Economy of today. The modern world has brought about issues such as dealing with uncertainty and change, diversity, and inequality resulting from digital divide. Liberal arts education emphasizes the importance of teaching and learning processes such as interactive relationships, community services, transdisciplinarity, and international exposure. Service-Learning is a useful medium through which the liberal arts teaching and learning processes can be practiced and the issues of the modern economy can be studies or even resolved.

Ageing And Family In Asian Society : Future Roles Of Our Younger Generations, Keiko Osaki

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

Owing to a long-term decline in fertility and improvement in longevity, the rapid process of population ageing has become an emerging reality that challenges Asian society. Along with such transformations, the family in Asia is also experiencing unprecedented changes, in terms of its structure, function and value. Prof. Osaki addresses inevitable socio-demographic changes shaping the societies in Asia and calls attention to the needs to strengthen inter-generational solidarity. Using the framework of the United Nations World Programme of Action for Youth (WAPY), she stresses that the facilitation of interdependence between younger and older persons should be a prerequisite to meeting …

Life Long Education Experience At Lingnan University, Ying Po Cheung, Chi Ping Kwan, Che Kau Li, Kit Ha Tong, Fat Hing Yip

APIAS Monograph 專題論文

Owing to the advancement of medical technology, food availability, improved environment and health conditions, population ageing is a phenomenon that is occurring both globally and locally. In Hong Kong, the elderly population defined as comprising people aged 65 and over, was 653,700 in 1996 (Census & Statistics Department 2005a). By 2006, it will be 839,600 (Census & Statistics Department 2004), representing a net increase of 33%. During the same period (1996—2006), the increase in the old-old group (aged 75 and over) is 59%. In Hong Kong, the decrease in birth rate coupled with an increase in average life expectancy, and …

Inspiring The Retirees Towards Active Ageing : A Case Study Of The Elderly Shop Project, Kwok Fai, Tony Leung

APIAS Monograph 專題論文

The “elderly shop” project is a project for retired elderly who are commonly identified as recipients of care and assistance, to venture into business. It provides a platform for them to be actively engaged in productive activities. This project is based on the “self-financing” business model. With the elderly as role models other social groups such as housewives and non-engaged/unemployed youths are also enlisted to provide support to this project. Together they form the service team. The transfer of “know how” and consultative support provided by the business community and professionals enable this project to provide services to those who …

服務研習通訊第六期 Office Of Service-Learning Newsletters, Volume 6, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

SLant 嶺召

在今期通訊中，我們將會為您介紹嶺南大學的服務研習計劃模式，並與您分享過往3年的努力成果。

In this issue, we are thrilled to introduce the model of Service-Learning programs at Lingnan University. In the meantime, you can know more about our achievement after 3 years of hard work.

Elderly Participation : My Experience As A Retiree, Fan Chun, Peter Tsang

APIAS Monograph 專題論文

Adaptation to life after retirement can be a challenge. In spite of being psychologically prepared, retirees often experience the feelings of idleness and restlessness. In order to be able to adapt, retirees must learn how to make their life more enjoyable and meaningful. Based on my experience, I suggest volunteering which is meaningful to the individual, family and the community at large. Volunteering can also result in personal growth as it is not only a process of giving but also learning as well. In this paper, I would like to share five of the most essential “ingredients” that would make …

An Evolving Practice Model In The Development Of Lifelong Education For Senior Citizens, Wai Chuen Shum

APIAS Monograph 專題論文

Promoting productive and successful aging has gradually become a main concern for society at large, in particular, public policy makers, gerontologists and social workers in ageing societies. In Hong Kong, the population aged 60 years and above has increased from 745,500 (13% of the total population) in 1991 to 1,004,400 (14.8%) in 2001 (Census & Statistics Department 2005). This figure will increase to about 2.2 million representing 27.7% of the population by 2023 within a span of about twenty years (Census & Statistics Department 2004). With this rapid growth of the elderly population, greater efforts are urgently needed to prepare …

服務研習通訊第五期 Office Of Service-Learning Newsletters, Volume 5, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

SLant 嶺召

今期通訊回顧了各個國際及本地的服務研習計劃，並為您介紹兩位客席服務研習導師。另一方面，我們亦詳述了長者學苑計劃的突破性發展。

In this issue, we highlight both our international and local Service-Learning programs as well as introduce our 2 Visiting Service-Learning Tutors to you. In the meantime, you can know more about the exceptional progress of the Elder Academy by reading it.

Service-Learning Newsletter Special Issue 2009 服務研習通訊二零零九年特刊, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

Special Issues 特刊

In order to further expand the concept of Service-Learning throughout the Asia-Pacific Region, the 2^nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning, titled “Crossing Borders, Making Connections: Service-Learning in Diverse Communities” has been held in June, 2009. In this Special Issue, we will guide you through our 5-day conference, including the highlights, the accomplishments; the knowledge gained, the experience shared, and most importantly, the participation of our Service-Learning students.

為推動服務研習於亞太地區的發展，我們於2009年6月舉辦了第二屆亞太地區服務研習會議 - 「跨越界限，建立聯繫：在多元社區中實踐服務研習」。本特刊將回顧5天的會議點滴，當中包括：會議摘要及成果、交流的知識及經驗，當然還有參與學生的分享。

2008-2009 Annual Report 年度報告, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

OSL Annual report 年度報告

Uniting Social Capitals for the Global Society

With the theme of “Uniting Social Capitals for the Global Society”, this issue will let you know how we connected the community with care and sincerity through various Service-Learning programs.

凝聚社會資本

此年報以「凝聚社會資本」為主題，讓您感受到我們如何從心出發，透過各類型服務研習計劃表達對社區的關心。

An Exploratory Study On The Elders' Needs And Attitudes Towards Radio Programmes, Cheung Ming, Alfred Chan, Kam Wing, Kevin Cheung

APIAS Working Paper 工作論文

Not many studies in the literature were to investigate the positive impacts of radio on health of the elderly in Hong Kong. If listening to radio has a positive impact on older people’s health, there would be important implications to the social services in Hong Kong, with regard to further studies on an in-depth understanding of this issue and policy recommendations for the Hong Kong government to improve social services of the elderly population. In light of the above rationale, the present study was designed to explore the qualitative impacts of listening radio on the well-being of elderly people in …

Negotiation In Cross-Cultural Marriages : An Exploratory Qualitative Study Among Middle Class Professionals In Hong Kong, Pui Kwan Man

Lingnan Theses

This thesis attempts to focus on families and their children (if any) in cross-cultural marriages. These families potentially face extra stress and strains in addition to those which all families face. As a result of recent social and economic changes, certain roles such as those of the breadwinner and caregiver, traditionally male-female roles, may be becoming more interchangeable. Cross-cultural families’ may have differences in cultural backgrounds, attitudes and expectations, as well as potential support networks, so the research will investigate whether these sorts of changes place even greater than usual demands on families.

Therefore, it may be important for couples …

Exploring The Television Portrayal Of Older People In Hong Kong : A Study Of Two Public Affairs Documentary Series, Caillie Tam

Lingnan Theses

Adopting the contextual social constructionist perspective on social problems, the present study investigates how older people are portrayed in two public affairs television documentaries in Hong Kong over a period of two decades. There were The Hong Kong Connection (produced by the public service broadcaster, Radio Television Hong Kong); and Chasing Current Affairs (produced by a commercial broadcaster, Asia Television Limited). A mixture of research designs was employed in the analysis, namely: (1) content analysis on the documentary episodes, (2) reviews of government documents and (3) in-depth interviews with social workers and the staff engaged in documentary episode productions. A …