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Gabay Ko...Abot-Kamay Mo (My Guidance Is In Your Hands), Florencia Bautista

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

The University of Rizal System in its desire of assisting the community performs the extension function to provide services to undeserved and underprivileged individuals. Such provision ensures the upliftment of the quality of life of the above-cited sector towards productivity and self-reliance.

The project “Gabay Ko… Abot-Kamay Mo” as an extension service of the College of Science, University of Rizal System_Morong, caters the orphans housed at Felicisimo-Aurora Bahay-Kalinga, Inc. (FABKI). Its main focus is to provide guidance services for their emotional, social, moral and psychological stability which will help them cope and overcome the situations confronting them. The need for …

How Schools Measure The Impact Of Service Learning On Communities : Through The Investigation Of Higher Education Institutions In Japan And The Us, Takeshi Miyazaki, Akira Ito, Sigmund Topor, Kayo Madokoro

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Service learning was introduced to Japan in the 1990s as both an educational philosophy and as an instructional method imported from the United States. As an educational philosophy, service learning reflects the belief that education should develop social responsibility in students and prepare them to be involved citizens in a democratic society. As an instructional method, service learning involves the blending of service activities with academic curricula, which allows students to learn through active engagement while addressing real community needs. Service learning has been used for first-year students in some colleges and universities in Japan, and has been encouraged by …

An Intergenerational Strategy For Promoting Successful Aging And Esl Skills, Wai Lun, Alan Lai, Matthew Kaplan

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This presentation highlights the need for a new approach for conducting ESL education in Hong Kong. It draws upon the literature on how children and youth learn new language skills, and takes into account recent data that demonstrates the value of real-life contexts and information made easily available in the teaching-learning interface for ESL education (Lai, 2011). To explore the foundations of this approach, an action research project that represents an intergenerational framework for promoting ESL skills has been established. The core of this project involves infusing intergenerational engagement opportunities into the ESL learning milieu. This model represents a novel …

Engaging In Cross-Cultural Services : A Journey To Global Citizenship, Lai Han, Cinnie Ng

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There are two parts in this paper. The first part is to identify and discuss three pairs of concepts: “National Citizenship and Global Citizenship”, “Legal Citizenship and Moral Citizenship”, and “Moral Citizenship and International / Cross Cultural Service-Learning”. Citizenship involves the concept of rights and responsibilities of a person in a country usually having a legitimate government. However, such “legal contract” between the government and the citizens does not exist in the global perspective. Global citizenship education is more appealing to the people’s inner goodwill with moral values and ethical system for the pursuit of a just and harmonious world …

A Dialogue Between Service-Learning Elders And Young Leaders, Robert Shumer, Dwight Giles, Siva Thaiyalan, Hok Ka, Carol Ma

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Factors Affecting The Success Of Service-Learning : A Reflection On Introducing Service-Learning Programmes In University Curriculum, Kai Yan Choi

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Service-learning is regarded as one of major endeavours to inspire students through practising their professional knowledge in the forms of voluntary service, and in turn, feedback to their conceptual knowledge. In this paper, I am going to identify factors affecting students’ consideration and participation in service-learning programmes at the University of Macau. I will report findings drawn from in-depth interviews with sociology students who attended the Practicum course in 2012/13, and other students in residential college. Influences brought up by peers, family, personal aspiration, and prior schooling experiences are key to the success of service-learning. Ambivalent role of general social …

Measuring Learning Outcomes Of Students In Service-Learning Considering Diversity And Degree Of Experiences, Enrique G. Oracion, Emervencia L. Ligutom

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Although Dan Butin (2011) has been critical of the place of service-learning in higher education institutions as a social movement and an intellectual movement, he actually had opened up four modes of service-learning outcomes of students exposed to this pedagogy that makes it a fertile field for scholarly research in education, in particular, and the social sciences, in general. These modes of learning which he categorized into technical, cultural, political and anti-foundational do not only suggest the diversity of learning that is offered by service-learning, but this typology also points out to the degree or different levels of learning that …

Program Evaluation And Assessment : Outcomes Of Service-Learning And A Research Agenda, Helen Thimmayya

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

The construction of the concept of Service Learning is a visionary move that evolves from the perception that in serving others’ needs one benefits oneself in a tangible sense. This reiterates the democratic interdependence of human beings. Weaving it into the academic experience of students imposes a systematic structure which makes it quantifiable. Hence, evaluation. There is no dearth today of models of Service Learning application or of suggested tools for evaluation. The challenge is, however, in the uniqueness of each SL experience. The first challenge in creating an evaluation design is the pre-SL activity process. A circle of stake-holders …

Local Governance : From University To Community (The Cpu Local Government Mobile Training Team Experience), Irving Domingo Rio

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Serving Effectively Through Service-Learning : Enhancing Service-Learning Programs That Promote Innovations For Inclusive Development, Leland Joseph Dela Cruz

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A number of service-learning projects have been undertaken at the Ateneo de Manila University to promote innovations for inclusive development. Some of these projects introduce innovations to particular marginalized communities or social development organizations. Others support innovations coming from these communities or organizations. While these projects have been helpful for students' social formation, only a few have been institutionalized by the service-learning client. This paper assesses the factors that account for the success or failure of these service-learning activities. Underlying the analysis is a framework for understanding the role of universities and service-learning in promoting these innovations as well as …

Compulsory Credit-Bearing Courses On Service Learning For The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Stephen Chan

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All students admitted to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) under the new 4-year undergraduate degree structure starting in the 2012-13 school year are required to take at least one subject in “Service Learning”. Preparations started in 2010. Since then 24 subjects have been developed and approved, about half of them have been piloted – offered to the current students as elective subjects. These subjects have been taken by ~300 students, who have served in Hong Kong, mainland China, and overseas. At full scale, it is estimated that we have to offer 60 subjects to more than two thousand students …

Using Cipp Model To Evaluate “Ntue 2012 Nepal Snowland School” Service-Learning Project, Huang Ju Lin, Nay Ching Tyan

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

In 2012, the department of Education, National Taipei University of Education (NTUE), conducted an oversea service-learning project to Nepal. The project was tied with two courses, i.e., Service-Learning Theory and Practice as well as International Education research. There were 9 university students (volunteer teachers) and 4 professors in the NTUE delegation. They served the 150 students of Snowland Ranag Light of Education School at Kathmandu, Nepal. This study aimed to use the CIPP model to evaluate the context, input, process and product of the project. Classroom observations, interviews questionnaires and document analysis were used to collect data following the triangulation …

Service-Learning Partnerships : 'A Springboard' For Enhanced Experiential Learning And Transformation, Betsy Selvakumar, Mary Pearl Ravikumar

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

Service learning is a teaching pedagogy wherein a student participates in a thoughtfully organised community based programme, with an academic orientation. This technique helps to enhance classroom teaching- learning experience, as the student strives to meet the need of the community. Service learning experience can be enriched by building effective partnerships with community based organisations. SL serves as a platform to support locally established initiatives of governmental and non-governmental organisations without displacing existing workers. For the institution that offers SL and the staff coordinating the programme, it is a meaningful exercise to thoughtfully consider potential partners who could assist in …

Powerful Partnership Formation And Powerful Celebration : A Case Study, Ielse Seale, Lingiwe Nogabe

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The School of Nursing at the University of The Free State (UFS) in South Africa (SA) has been advocating service learning and engagement with communities since the late nineties. Today the UFS is truly an engaged African university where faculty members use cross-border higher education to build capacity. Service learning fosters generic and discipline specific skills in students as well as empowers local communities. Curriculum based engagement in communities is one of the fundamental aspects of the service learning pedagogy. One of the key challenges, in order to provide students with appropriate learning opportunities, was to build sustainable partnerships where …

The Principle Of Reciprocity In Service Learning : The Case Of De La Salle University, Lourdes F. Melegrito

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Educational institutions play a significant role in social development and nation building. To realize this, the schools, especially universities and colleges must engage actively in community development and in contributing to civic growth. There is a challenge to move towards a collaborative endeavour between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for social progress. De La Salle University (DLSU), being an advocate of transformative learning, espouses Service Learning (SL).

It is offered as a response of the University to engage the academic community in addressing social disarticulations. This academic process aims to contribute in the formation of socially aware …

Civic Virtue Construction In Social Transformation : The Practice Of Service Learning In Sysu, Jiangang Zhu, Quan Hong

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The imbalance state between development of market economy system and series of negative social events reflected a lack of civic mindedness today. Civic morality construction should play a significant role in this social transformation period. Specifically, civic education should develop students in three dimensions, right-responsibility awareness, tolerance, and spirit of volunteer. As an essential part of civic education, service-learning is to combine academic knowledge with social service, furthermore to achieve these objectives. Although, service-learning is adopted widely and developed a series of mature theories in the West, especially in America, the spread of service-learning in China is still in its …

Learning Service Leadership Through Service-Learning : Anxieties, Opportunities And Insights, Robin Stanley Snell, Yin Lee Chan, Hok Ka, Carol Ma

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Lingnan University (LU) is one of 8 tertiary institutions in Hong Kong that have received sponsorship for undergraduate students to acquire knowledge and develop attributes relating to service leadership. Service leadership may be conceptualized as leadership for service, exercised through distributed authority, aimed at identifying and meeting genuine needs of service recipients. Building on prior experience of embedding service-learning projects into discipline-based credit bearing courses, in term 1, 2012-13, LU introduced service leadership through service-learning into four courses. A predominantly qualitative, critical-incident approach was adopted to study processes of students’ learning on these courses. Data were collected through open-ended team …

Building Partnership In Service-Learning : Some Reflections, Nirmala Jeyaraj

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

Service-Learning is a proven pedagogy for holistic learning and is practiced across the globe by educators both at secondary and tertiary levels. Different models and methods have been developed and adopted to suit one’s educational system, discipline of the learner, socio-cultural context and needs of the community. However the basic philosophy of service learning to mutually benefit the learner and the community remains the same. The success of S-L depends largely upon the partnership involved in the learning process. At micro level (within an educational institution) academic service learning involves two major players other than the community namely, the teacher …

Service-Learning And Community Partnerships : A Study Of Hong Kong Secondary School Teachers, Sek Yum Ngai, Chau Kiu Cheung, Kwok Bong Chan

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Service-learning is becoming an increasingly popular approach to achieving both the personal and academic goals of students and the broader goals of civic responsibility and social justice in communities. Hence, it is essential to consider the important role played by community partners in supporting this kind of experiential education. Reciprocity between schools and communities has been espoused as a core principle of good practice in service-learning. However, the paucity of studies of community partnerships indicates that they are only beginning to be understood and thus require further in-depth investigation. Drawing upon five focus group interviews with 22 secondary school teachers …

What Is Learning In Service-Learning? Findings From Service-Learning Research At Beijing Normal University, Meilin Yao, Wenfan Yan, Fangfang Guo, Cong Wang, Yulan Li

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

What is learning in service-learning? The question was put forward decades ago but has not been answered clearly in the international context. Focused on this important issue, we conducted a series of studies with mixed method approach. We surveyed 844 college students and 6203 middle school students respectively in mainland China. Results indicated that most students had some experience of service activities. However, the quality of such practice was not satisfying in the aspects of duration, intensity and link to curriculum. Based on the above investigation, we conducted a service-learning program through the course of Psychology of Learning for undergraduate …

Environmental Information & Education Campaign In A Pilot Creek Community : A Civic Engagement And Learning Experience Of Communication Students Of The University Of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, Philippines, Allen Del Carmen

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

On November 19, 2012, foul odor was reported in communities that form part of the 11-kilometer length of the Cabacawan Creek in Bacolod City, Philippines. The creek, prior to its final flow into the sea, passes along the southwestern rim of the University of St. La Salle, where the university community also reported the smell of stench. University personnel also reported seeing dead fishes (Janitor fish species) carried downstream. The incident triggered a massive concern from the city government and environment groups, including the current Community Communication Class of the Communication Department of the University of St. La Salle.

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Responding To Communities’ Information Needs : Community-Based Research As Service-Learning, Timothy K. Stanton, Viria Vichit-Vadakan

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

Most practitioners conceive of service-learning as combining student involvement in service-oriented tasks with and for communities with structured educational activities designed to develop their knowledge, character, and/or social skills and capacities. Whatever the goals for students these tasks tend to be of a direct service kind – e.g., tutoring, teaching classes, assisting the elderly, environmental clean-up, etc. Occasionally these tasks will also include administrative or public policy-related work. Rarely, however, does service-learning venture into the realm of research. This interactive workshop will explore the goals, background, characteristics, and current practices of research as a form of service-learning, including its benefits …

Think-Act-Contribute (Tac) As A Unique Way To Promote Healthy Living In Tuen Mun District, Tyan Chyi, Nicholas Ooi, Man Yee, Afra Ho

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TAC adopted a model with three progressive learning processes: THINK, ACT & CONTRIBUTE. It aims to first prepare the community to understand the TAC concepts in different perspectives (THINK) of psychological, mental and social health. Then physical activity (ACT) will be taught through healthy exercise such as dancing and stretching. Lastly, Participants are encouraged to promote healthy exercise and knowledge in the community (Contribute) by joining the TAC Health Leaders Program.

By sharing a similar mission as Tuen Mun Healthy City Limited, we cooperate and adopt the TAC model to spread healthy ideas in the community. Unlike ordinary exercise program, …

Benefits To Dse Students Of Service-Learning Through A Community Development Model, Pui Yee, Josephine Do, Tai Wai Chor

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

Examines the impact of service-learning course "Community Arts experiences" on Hong Kong DSE students' self-concept, personal growth, community engagement, learning outcome, civil responsibility, and adaptability in less favorable working environments, for example, the ANTI violence organization and African culture group. Discusses whether service learning helps student improve their learning from primary learning (presenting information) to secondary learning (interpreting information), and evaluate how the connection between two level of learning foster "reflection" and "critical thinking".

Start With The Discovery : Improving The Process Of Community Engagement Through Appreciative Inquiry, Siddhartha Pailla, Cassandra Pruitt

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

As service-learning programs are becoming more popular with universities around the world, it is important to ensure that the programs’ participants maintain an ethical relationship with their community partners. Primary amongst the student groups’ ethical duties is to not impose unexpressed needs upon community partners. This paper presents an experience of a service-learning project in a larger service-learning program under the Water and Health in Limpopo (WHIL) research collaborative between the University of Venda (UNIVEN) and University of Virginia (UVA). The project takes place in the village of Tshapasha, South Africa, where an interdisciplinary team of service-learners composed of students …

Examining The Research Evidence For The Academic Value Of Service-Learning, Andrew Furco

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

Across the globe, service-learning is increasingly being promoted as a pedagogy for advancing student learning and educational success. Proponents of service-learning suggest that engaging students in community service experiences that are tied to the academic curriculum can enhance students’ educational experience and promote better learning. Yet, despite this growing enthusiasm for service-learning, much skepticism persists regarding the academic value of service-learning and the extent to which educational institutions should integrate this practice as part of students' formal academic curriculum.

This keynote presentation examines the current state of research on service-learning and assesses what the evidence tells us about the overall …

The Importance Of Service-Leadership In Higher Education, Po Yang Chung

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

93% of Hong Kong’s GDP is generated by the service industry, which also provides employment for 88% of the total working population of the territory. If you are not making a living through farming, fishing, hunting, mining, manufacturing or repetitive processing, chances are that you are in the service industry. In other words, unless tertiary students intend to take up a non-service job (and be among the remaining 12% of the working population), then service is likely to be their future.

Services are carried out and led by people. Service leaders are and will therefore be in great demand. The …

Nurturing Students As Community Advocates, Li Yu, Michelle Kwok

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Promoting Healthy Diet To Hostel Residents In University Via Integrated Learning Program With A Built-In Research For The Prevention Of Non-Communicable Diseases (Ncds), Hiu Yan, Fanny Chan, Pui Yee, Phoebe Tang

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Capacity Building For Research And Evaluation : Using Service-Learning To Expand Research On Service Learning Programs, Robert Shumer

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