Service Learning in Higher Education: Paradigms & ChallengesService-Learning has proved to be a powerful and practical methodology and tool with far-reaching implications. Benefits have included increased civic engagement, enhanced sense of purpose, greater feeling of fulfillment, nurtured creativity, and promotion of problem-solving skills and social responsibility as traditional classrooms have moved to the communities and students have become service providers and learners. The papers in this book span a good part of the globe and cover a wide application spectrum, from health care, business administration, nursing, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy to gerontology and food service. Extended models and prototypes explored include community engaged learning, long-distance learning, and the bridge between older and younger students. In addition to current perspectives and numerous revealing case studies with local communities and international service-learning projects, thirty chapters and a reflection paper are devoted to documenting lessons learning, assessing service-learning programs, identifying new challenges, and tapping into the emerging paradigms in service-learning. |
Contents
Faculty Perceptions of Civic Engagement | 17 |
Embedding ServiceLearning in South African | 45 |
Contemporary | 65 |
Redesigning PracticeEducation Modules | 85 |
in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Africas | 109 |
Developing | 119 |
Community Involvement for Studentlearning Paradigm | 129 |
Benefits and Challenges of ServiceLearning | 141 |
Integrated IdealType Paradigm | 251 |
Revisiting Perceptions of Fieldwork Outcomes in | 259 |
Understanding ServiceLearning from a Volunteer | 283 |
Changes and Challenges of the ServiceLearning | 295 |
InternationalInterdisciplinary | 319 |
Do It Experiences with ServiceLearning | 329 |
The Engineers in Technical Humanitarian | 337 |
Reflections of a New Explorer | 349 |
A Reflection on the Development of | 157 |
Integrating Gerontology ServiceLearning | 171 |
Curriculum Development | 199 |
Academic ServiceLearning | 209 |
ServiceLearning and New Student Experience | 221 |
Improved Cognitive Outcomes from Deeper | 227 |
Emergent Paradigms | 241 |
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