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A “University-Community-Student” Multi-Profit Model Of Service Learning Basing On Mentoring Program, Xin Hou, Xiaoqiang Chen

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There is a topic, that how to combine the function of social service with the task of developing manpower, being more and more concerned throughout higher education in mainland china. By means of consistent exploring, a team from Chinese Youth University for Political Sciences established a multi-profit model of service learning, which base on mentoring program. This model focus on inviting particular field where direct social service and education happens organically: institutions for higher education engage in community changes, which shown as promoting social inclusion, by grouping students and professors into practice; and students, by performance in one-to-one mentoring and …

The Importance Of Ownership In Facilitating Students’ Learning In Service-Learning Process, Kam Chung Wong

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In the study of Service-Learning within the context of a non-government-funded post-secondary education institute in Hong Kong. The students of the institution are characterized by their relative disadvantages in self-esteem, academic achievement in public examination and social competence. A qualitative case study method was employed to explore the experiences of both the student participants and the staff members involved in the Service-Learning process. Data collection took place in the form of semi-structured individual interviews, focus group and student reflective journal. Eleven students from different academic programmes and at different educational levels (diploma, higher diploma, associate degree) are selected as the …

Making Friends, Acting Changing : Partnerships Across Community-Based Service Learning, Chih Liang Chao

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Service-learning is a structured learning experience that combines community service with personal experiencing preparation and reflection. In service-learning, involves a principle-centered partnership between communities and university. In service-learning, traditional definitions of "teacher" and "learner" are intentionally blurred. Service-learning differs from traditional classroom education, which emphasizes reciprocal learning-We all learn from each other. This paper suggests additional theoretical perspectives drawn largely from cognitive psychology and social theory. Three teaching courses related to local or indigenous community development projects of Taiwan have been involved to answer these questions: (1) How can community partnerships enrich service-learning? (2) How curriculum development as a partnership …

A Case Study On Academic Service-Learning : Enhance Academic Learning By Servicing With A Non-Profit Organization, Shih Chieh Chen

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Recently, we expect students in universities have the abilities of caring the community, understanding the community demands and solving the community problems. Researchers proposed papers in literature about that, to students, service-learning can promote their personal development, public relationship learning, understanding knowledge and applications. Therefore many courses in universities are designed to combine academic learning and community service such that students become to be resource providers and learning by initiative service.

This paper presents the outcome of a course, the practical of ERP module, in which we integrated the service as a significant course requirement. Students learned academic knowledge in …

Cslp In Sham Shui Po (理有「深」社區服務計劃) : A District-Based Service Learning Project, Its Mode Of Delivery And Effectiveness, Wing Ying, Winnie Lee

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Background: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is committed to producing all-round graduates who are also responsible citizens and contributive members of the society. The annual campus-wide Community Service Learning Programme (CSLP) has been organized since 2004 to encourage staff and students to serve the community through the use of their professional knowledge and skills. About 800 students work on various service projects each year to serve the underprivileged groups of Hong Kong, Chinese mainland and overseas. In 2010/11, we started a new mode of service delivery with the implementation of a District-based Service-Learning Project in a relatively deprived area …

Teaching English As A Service Learning Experience : The Design And Implementation Of A Service Learning Subject, Cathy S.P. Wong, Dora Wong

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This paper reports on how a service learning subject for English majors in a university in Hong Kong was developed and piloted. Studies in learning through community service in tertiary education in Hong Kong have shown that students have benefited tremendously (Ngai, 2006; Chan, Lee & Ma, 2009; Lai, 2009; Chan, 2012). Service learning can be defined as “… an active form of teaching and learning in which all involved, namely the students, faculty, community sponsors, mentors, and those served, engage together in activities, that address human and community needs, with structured opportunities designed to promote learning and the development …

Service-Learning Does Work At Sacramento State University! : The 65th Street Corridor Community Collaborative Project, Gregory Mark, Griselda Casillas, Rayven Arzola, Aury Gutierrez- Zavala

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In 2002, a group of interdisciplinary scholars and researchers from Sacramento State University approached local community members in South Sacramento to collaborate on addressing rising at-risk and violence rates at two public schools in areas where gang violence and a lack of access to resources created a need for innovative, culturally competent strategies. This collaboration has blossomed into a long-term community project that currently annually serves more than 2,000 middle and high school students Panel members will discuss the evolution of this project that utilizes a University community-mobilization approach. This panel consists of one faculty member and three students. Dr. …

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

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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 …

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

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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 …

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

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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

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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

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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 …