Learning About Social Work Research Through Service-Learning
Social work educators have struggled to find ways to encourage students and practitioners alike to engage in research. This project examines the impact of using a service-learning experience with a...
View ArticleRelational Dimensions of Service-Learning: Common Ground for Faculty,...
Instructors, students, and community partners often live in separate “discourse communities.” The authors conducted a study to investigate the issues at stake in the relationships among those three...
View ArticleThe Crabby Creek Initiative: Building and Sustaining An Interdisciplinary...
In this article, we identify the steps and strategies that emerged through an interdisciplinary, community-based participatory research (CBPR) project—the Crabby Creek Initiative. The Initiative was...
View ArticleLeading the Dance of Learning: Using Reflective Questions to Promote...
A major challenge facing teacher educators today is creating a field-based opportunity for pre-service educators in which they are able to connect with K-12 students and differentiate instruction to...
View ArticleHaiti: Sustaining Partnerships in Sustainable Development
How can universities organize their international community engagement to optimize both student learning and community impact? This article describes the St. Thomas University/Port-de-Paix, Haiti,...
View Article“We Know We Are Doing Something Good, But What Is It?”: The Challenge of...
Engaging communities throughout the research process and responding to community priorities results in constant negotiation between service and research. Community-based participatory research has...
View ArticleConfronting Resistance: Addressing Issues of Race and Class During...
Community partnerships have the potential to empower and arm students with the tools to positively engage with all members of society. In this study, the author explores how race and class shaped...
View ArticleChallenging Contextual Factors in University-Community Partnerships
In this paper, we discuss a community-university partnership struck with the intention of carrying out data analysis for the purposes of service planning and policy implementation that led us to find...
View ArticlePredicting Community Engagement? The Carnegie Foundation’s Elective...
The Carnegie Foundation’s elective Community Engagement classification is valuable for colleges and universities seeking to demonstrate a mutually beneficial relationship with the community. This...
View ArticleCommunity as Agency: Community Partner Experiences with Service Learning
The bulk of research on service learning has focused on student outcomes; however, there is a scarcity of research examining the lived experiences of community partners. Additionally, the few studies...
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