A Checklist for Implementing Service-Learning in Higher Education
Service-learning has been implemented successfully as an instructional method in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities. Research indicates that service-learning helps students gain knowledge and...
View ArticleMini-Med School: Developing Partnerships with the Community and Between...
Often in the high-tech, fast paced arena of health professions education, community engagement may be ignored. One rural, Southern university with a large health sciences division did not allow this...
View ArticleDeveloping a Community-Based Research Network for Interdisciplinary Science:...
The Alabama Entrepreneurial Research Network (AERN) is a program originated to encourage entrepreneurship in rural areas of economic distress. In addition to promoting prosperity in low-income areas,...
View ArticleUsing Service-Learning to Teach a Social Work Policy Course
Preparing students to be passionate about and engage in policy work can be a challenge for social work educators. Previous research supports that service-learning can increase positive attitudes and...
View ArticleBuilding Capacity to Improve Latino Health in Rural North Carolina: A Case...
In North Carolina, health disparities for the emergent Latino population are well documented. Between 2005 and 2009, a community-university engagement model with Latino leaders and university faculty...
View ArticleCanton Connections: A University-Community Partnership for Post-Disaster...
Back-to-back hurricanes prompted the creation of a partnership between Western Carolina University and an affected community in western North Carolina. The partnership was designed to promote the...
View ArticleRedefining the Lines of Expertise: Educational Pathways Through the...
The profiles of American communities are among the most dynamic in recent history. This qualitative study examines collaboration between an urban community and The University of Utah. The Communities...
View ArticleMeaningful Relationships: Cruxes of University-Community Partnerships for...
The authors draw on organizational theory’s use of the metaphor as a way of understanding and explaining sustainable university/community-engaged partnerships. Working from the premise that...
View ArticleCritical Race Feminism: A Transformative Vision for Service-Learning Engagement
This article explores the development of service-learning from a critical race feminist perspective. Critical race feminism seeks to understand how society organizes itself along intersections of...
View ArticleCivic Engagement and People with Disabilities: The Role of Advocacy and...
Disability legislation acknowledges the right of people with disabilities to participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others, but there continue to be significant barriers in...
View ArticleContributing to Family Health Using a Promotora Program in Guatemala
Pneumonia and diarrhea can be addressed with early detection and education, yet low rates of literacy and high rates of poverty impact the ability of parents in rural Guatemala to recognize and seek...
View ArticleThe Power of Stories to Build Partnerships and Shape Change
This essay reflects on the power of storytelling and narrative in a collaborative partnership that engaged undergraduate pre-service English as Second Language (ESL) candidates and their professor...
View Article“Beyond My Imagination”: Learning the Sociology of Poverty Through Service...
In recent years, educators from diverse academic disciplines have created service learning courses in response to natural disasters. However, sociology courses have been slow to integrate service...
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