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Sustainable Development With Geomatics, Joseph Lam, Geoffrey Shea, Ran Zhang, Xiang Rong

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

Learning for service is the main objective in service learning, students in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) are encouraged to apply their learning outcomes to serve the community for rather long term benefits. This paper will discuss how PolyU students with Geomatics knowledge committed a service learning project with local social enterprises-Hosteling International.

Together with students from both Peking University and Yunnan University with different disciplines, a group of students from PolyU joined a service learning project in Yunnan. These students applied their knowledge in mapping and other professional skills to serve the community at Yuan Jie Township by …

Service-Learning As Pedagogy For The Study Of Art And Community, Suk Mun, Sophia Law

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

The study of art in higher education has long focused on art history and practice, masters and masterpieces. Art, in its fund amental sense, is a language written in images that applies to all, not just to the talented and privileged. It has a close relationship with and considerable influence on the development of both individuals and communities. Art and Well Being, a programme elective offered by the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University, investigates the intrinsic nature of art as a language for expression and communication. It provides students with a new perspective on seeing art, provoking an …

Service-Learning As A Strategy For Social Formation Of Students And Cct Beneficiaries Through Financial Literacy, Zynen S. Baniel, Noelle R. Flores

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

School year 2013-14 marked the start of a partnership between the Office for Social Concern and Involvement (OSCI) and the John Gokongwei School of Management (JGSOM). Both visualize an enhanced formation program for the students through service-learning.

Service-learning happens when students are in their second year. It is at this time when RA 91631 is offered and JGSOM students start learning financial concepts in their management subjects.

Social formation and academic learning becomes a single entity through financial literacy2. Financial concepts were taught to 1,364 identified conditional cash transfer (CCT) beneficiaries, a government program implemented by the Department of Social …

Deep Ploughing Localized Services; Expanding International Horizons : Collaborative English Teaching Service-Learning Program Between Minghsin University Of Science And Technology And Primary & Junior High Schools, Hsiao Chi Chiu, Shin Fa Tseng, Yu Chun Wu

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

On the basis of our experience in promoting localized service-learning programs over the past 6 years, our school, in collaboration with local primary and junior high schools, planned a Cooperative Service Learning Program with an emphasis on "reflection" and "reciprocity" in service learning. This Program was implemented in coordination with a Service-Learning Program (named Professional Ethics) initiated by the Department of Applied Foreign Languages of our school. In practice, college students are dispatched to primary and junior high schools to teach their students English and lead the primary and junior high school students to establish a campus English catchphrases environment. …

Educating In The Digital Age : Why Service-Learning Is More Important Now Than Ever, Joseph A. Erickson

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

During the past several years, we have heard several long-time advocates of service-learning integration into teacher education express concerns about how service-learning fits into the mix of pedagogies in the 21st Century school. In this age of hyper-accountability, is service-learning too hard to document and too complicated to implement? Has service-learning’s time passed? Does service-learning fit in the 21st Century school? Why service-learning now?

Today we are faced with unprecedented new challenges in educating our youth: the Internet and other forms of mass media can be a huge impediment to helping out youth become full and able participants in our …

Designing The Future Of Service-Learning In Teacher Education Across The Globe, Joseph A. Erickson, 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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Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley, University College, Western Kentucky University

UC Publications

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Engagement And Global Learning Through Philanthropy: A Youth Philanthropy Council For International Baccalaureate Students, Erin Gorman

Capstone Collection

Unprecedented global migration and a flattened global economy have influenced the skills, knowledge, and competencies all high school youth need to be engaged participants and effective workers in the 21^st century global economy (Mansilla & Jackson, 2011). Research indicates that many youth, especially those at risk for dropping out of school or from minority and low-income backgrounds, do not have adequate opportunities to develop the global competence and 21^st century skills needed for engagement and success in the workforce of the 21^st century (Afterschool Alliance, 2010). This paper presents a replicable global learning afterschool program model that …

Service Learning: Hope Begins With You, Linda T. Bond

Bright Ideas Conference

There were some unexpected results of the service learning project for the Department of Mass Communication’s Advertising Cases and Campaigns class (MCM 308). What began as an advertising campaign for a nonprofit resulted in a student-organized food drive, a logo for a new campus organization and a new appreciation of service learning.

安老服務業前景可觀 嶺大學生助中學生作生涯規劃, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

OSL Supplement 新聞特刊

原載於2015年4月28日《星島日報》。

Originally published in "Sing Tao Daily" 28th April 2015.

Widening Your Career Outlook By Looking Into Hong Kong's Health-Care Industry, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

OSL Supplement 新聞特刊

原載於2015年4月28日《The Standard》。(只有英文)

Originally published in "The Standard" 28th April 2015. (English only)

An Examination Of Volunteer Motivations And Characteristics Between Required Volunteer Service And Non-Required Volunteer Service In College Students: An Exploratory Study, Amanda C. Bastien

Honors College Theses

Volunteerism in the undergraduate years can enhance students’ academic development, civic responsibility, and life skills (Astin & Sax, 1998). Whether a student volunteers in high school can be a predictor of continued volunteerism in college and later in life (Planty & Regnier, 2003; Astin & Sax, 1998). Participants of this study were 283 college students enrolled in first year seminar courses at a large university in the Southeastern United States. Participants completed a questionnaire developed by Gage and Thapa (2012) which included the Volunteer Function Inventory (Clary et al. 1998) that served to investigate the volunteering characteristics and volunteering motivations …

Fearless Friday: Erin Duran, Christina L. Bassler

SURGE

As we conclude PRIDE Week, we honor Erin Duran, the fearless director of LGBTQA Advocacy and Education. In Erin’s three years at Gettysburg, he has established institutional support for the LGBTQA community and has worked to make the campus more inclusive and accepting of all students. [excerpt]

Franklinton Healthcare Committee, Devyn Hempy, Logan Peterman, Nicole Kostiuk, Ethan Wojciechowski, Matt Mccollister

Senior Year Experience Student Projects

Franklinton HealthCare Committee proposes to reinvent Mt. Carmel West by creating a new rehabilitation center to fight drug and alcohol addiction, a wellness center to educate Franklinton residents about nutrition and health issues, and a residence hall to support the expansion of the nursing school.

We Get To Carry Each Other: Using The Musical Activism Of U2 As Framework For An Engaged Spirituality And Community Engagement Course, Marshall Welch

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

This article describes a January term community engagement service-learning course that used the musical and spiritually-based activism of the rock group U2 as an example of engaged spirituality using activism and advocacy. In addition to learning about the history, music, and activism of the band, students were taught a specific set of skills for activism, advocacy, and community organizing that included creating goal statements, developing and implementing action plans, and coordinating logistics for advocacy-based events on campus. Students were assigned to apply these skills as the service-learning component of the course. These activities were conceptualized as indirect service that reflected …

Interfacing Catholic Social Meanings, Sociology, Self, And Pedagogical Practices, Daniel J. Myers, Andrew J. Weigert

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

What connects Catholic Social Tradition with Sociology? How do each inform the other and how do they, together, flow through and animate the sociologist? Within a student-driven learning community pedagogy, this course builds on the humanistic aspects of Sociology as a scientific perspective a la Peter Berger’s Invitation to Sociology. This foundation is then filtered through a social psychological understanding of self with a sense of vocation through which persons’ deepest passions meets humans’ greatest needs. Biographical vignettes of sociologists’ careers of study that address issues of racial and gender inequalities and psycho-social shifts in values over the life course …

Journey Into Shame: Implications For Justice Pedagogies, Roger C. Bergman

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

Being formed for justice can be a painful experience. Sometimes that pain takes the form of shame and contributes to the formation and exercise of conscience. But shame in other forms can be opposed to human flourishing and social justice. Psychologist James Fowler provides a spectrum of two forms of healthy shame and four forms of unhealthy shame, to which the author adds four other varieties, strategic shame and spiritual shame, at one end of the spectrum, and murderous shame and genocidal shame, at the other. Various experiences of shame are dramatically illustrated in Black Like Me, John Howard …

Prophetic Imagination: Confronting The New Jim Crow & Income Inequality In America, Cornel West

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

On October 11, 2014, Cornel West delivered the keynote address to nearly 600 students at the regional Leadership & Social Justice Conference, hosted at Saint Mary’s College of California. The conference occurred two days before West was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, during a demonstration to protest the killing of young Black men by White police officers, as in the case of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson. Speaking of the students, West said, "I would like to see these precious young people commit themselves to lives of integrity, honesty and decency, where they are vigilant against all forms of evil—White supremacists, …

Service-Learning @ Lingnan : Facts & Figures, Lingnan University, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

OSL Book / Book Chapter / Manual 書刊/文章/教材冊

This booklet summarizes the results and findings from the ongoing research and evaluation studies of Service-Learning. It provides supporting evidence that Service-Learning enhances students’ development in seven learning outcomes: Subject-Related Knowledge, Communication Skills, Social Competence, Problem- Solving Skills, Research Skills, Organization Skills and Civic Orientation.

Is Service-Learning The Answer? Preparing Teacher Candidates To Work With Ells Through Service-Learning Experiences, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo

Scholarship of Metropolitan Mission

In an effort to address the gaps in preparing teacher candidates (TCs) to work with English Language Learners (ELLs), service-learning experiences (SLE) were integrated into two courses within a teacher education program. This exploratory case study sought to explore the outcomes of teacher candidates (TCs) engaged in SLE with diverse students and families, particularly ELLs. Content analysis of students’ reflections provided insights of the impact of the SLE. Findings indicate that participating in service-learning with ELLs provides opportunities for TCs to engage in positive interactions that help to address misconceptions about students, families, and communities. TCs also began to confront …