Needs Assessment Of An International Service-Learning Program: An Innovative Approach To Community-Based Learning,
2025
Emory University School of Medicine
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.
Bingocizetm: Successful Integration Of Intergenerational Service-Learning Into An Exercise Science Practicum Project,
2025
Western Kentucky University
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.
Students’ Knowledge And Perceived Confidence In An Interdisciplinary Experiential-Learning Environment,
2025
Ball State University
Students’ Knowledge And Perceived Confidence In An Interdisciplinary Experiential-Learning Environment, Adam J. Kuban, Michelle M. O'Malley, Lee J. Florea
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
Experiential-learning theory suggests that students acquire knowledge through hands-on learning environments, and aspiring journalists need a setting where they can experience science—its process(es) as well as how to report empirical findings. Researchers used pre/post questionnaires, field notebook evaluation, and focus group analysis as methods to assess an interdisciplinary, experiential course that combined science and media undergraduates. Results revealed students valued procedural over fact-based knowledge. Students also indicated increased perceived confidence—even when they answered questions incorrectly.
Everyone Has Humanity In Them: Multidimensional Teaching And Learning Through Philosophy-Based Discussion,
2025
University of Virginia
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.
Incubating Grassroots Nonprofits: A Service-Learning Approach To Organizational Capacity Building With Communities Of Immigrant And Refugee Background,
2025
University of Utah
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 …
Mutual Transformation Through Arts-Based Service Learning With Australian Aboriginal Communities: An Australian Case Study,
2025
University of Western Sydney
Mutual Transformation Through Arts-Based Service Learning With Australian Aboriginal Communities: An Australian Case Study, Anne Power, Dawn Bennett, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
This paper reports from a national arts-based service-learning project in Australia. Working with pre-service teachers, the paper employs the theoretical framework of sentipensante (sensing/thinking), which has been successfully used in disciplines such as policy, leadership, and communication. Participant stories reveal a network of relations that create understanding of shared existence, and these learning experiences emerge as variously threshold, transformative, and/or troublesome. Findings lend support to the value of flexible, critical service learning approaches, particularly in diverse cultural contexts.
Academics Meets Action: Community Engagement Motivations, Benefits, And Constraints,
2025
Northern Illinois University
Academics Meets Action: Community Engagement Motivations, Benefits, And Constraints, Alicia M. Schatteman
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
In recent years, civic engagement has increased with college students, which has been recognized by the Carnegie Institute and is the focus of this article. One example is the growth in community service and service-learning programs. This study builds on the work of Clary et al. (1996 and 1998) that examined student motivations for participating in community service projects. The purpose of this paper is to determine who participates in a college community service event, what motivates them to participate, what are the constraints, and what are the benefits of participating. Furthermore, this study adds to the literature and uses …
The Impact Of Community-Based Learning In School Guidance,
2025
College of the Holy Cross
The Impact Of Community-Based Learning In School Guidance, Ericka J. Fisher, Martha Espinal, Sarah Masterson, Julia Savastano, Kristen Vartanian
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
In this article we explore how higher education partners, in this case a small, Jesuit, liberal arts institution, can partner with local public schools through community-based learning in order to increase counseling-based resources in the public schools. Using the case study of one undergraduate course’s field-based experience component, we examine the initial impact on the undergraduate participants as well as potential contributions to the public school. Given the economic constraints facing American public schools, the lack of sufficient guidance and counseling staff within schools, and the growing need for counseling-based services, the need for community partners to contribute to this …
Reconsidering The American Dream And U.S. Latino Culture In A College Spanish Service-Learning Course,
2025
Wartburg College
Reconsidering The American Dream And U.S. Latino Culture In A College Spanish Service-Learning Course, Zak K. Montgomery, Serena B. Ugoretz, Sarah E. Montgomery, Sarah Vander Zanden, Ashley Jorgensen, Mirsa Rudic
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
This study explores how a joint Photovoice project about the American Dream between a U.S. Latino culture course and a multicultural middle school class influenced college students’ perceptions of Latino culture. In addition to outlining the service-learning course design, the study also analyzes the trajectory of the students’ understanding of the American Dream. As a result of the partnership, college students’ American Dreams shifted away from the archetypal personal success narrative toward a more civically- oriented approach.
The Evolution Of An Urban Design Curriculum In Landscape Architecture And A Community-Based Design Center,
2025
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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 …
Book Review - Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections On Publicly Active Graduate Education. Syracuse: The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University Gilvin, A., Roberts, G., And Martin, C. (Eds) 2012.,
2025
Bellarmine University
Book Review - Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections On Publicly Active Graduate Education. Syracuse: The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University Gilvin, A., Roberts, G., And Martin, C. (Eds) 2012., Jay Gatrell
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
No abstract provided.
Book Review - Academic Interaction With Social Partners: Investigating The Contribution Of Universities To Economic And Social Development. Cape Town, South Africa: Hsrc. Glenda Kruss, Mariette Visser, And Mogau Aphane (2012).,
2025
Indiana State University
Book Review - Academic Interaction With Social Partners: Investigating The Contribution Of Universities To Economic And Social Development. Cape Town, South Africa: Hsrc. Glenda Kruss, Mariette Visser, And Mogau Aphane (2012)., Charles Norman
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
No abstract provided.
Community Service In Saudi Arabian Universities: A Comparative Study,
2025
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
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.
Reading Beyond Research Results: The Hidden Curriculum In A College And Urban High Schools Partnership,
2025
Nazareth College of Rochester
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.
Impact Of Service-Learning Courses With A
Social Justice Curriculum On The Development Of
Social Responsibility Among College Students,
2025
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Impact Of Service-Learning Courses With A Social Justice Curriculum On The Development Of Social Responsibility Among College Students, Yan Wang
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
In this study, six service-learning courses were studied to examine if a curriculum’s social justice emphasis has a significant impact on college students’ development of different types of social responsibility. The results suggest that service-learning courses with a social justice emphasis had a positive impact on the development of participatory and justice-oriented social responsibility, while service-learning courses without such an emphasis did not have an impact on the development of social responsibility.
Impact Of Degrees Of Service On Alumni Career Development,
2025
Alvernia University
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.
Democracy In Action: The Contribution Of The Debatewatch Project To Civic Participation,
2025
University of Nebraska, Omaha
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.
Current Research Interests In International Service-Learning,
2025
Pennsylvania State University
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 …
Social Action, Service Learning, And Youth Development,
2025
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Social Action, Service Learning, And Youth Development, Joan Arches
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
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.
Service Learning Students’ Perceptions Of Citizenship,
2025
Merrimack College
Service Learning Students’ Perceptions Of Citizenship, Audrey Faye Falk
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
This study examines the conceptions of citizenship held by students engaged in a service learning course. Open-ended responses to instructor-developed surveys were analyzed. Results indicated that students primarily viewed good citizenship in terms of community service; however, their ideas about service were limited to passive kinds of service such as helping others and volunteering, rather than active kinds of service such as community organizing. Results were compared with conceptions of citizenship held by students engaged in another course with a smaller volunteering component. Opportunities for broadening service learning students’ understanding of citizenship are discussed.
