Service Learning and Civic Engagement

Outside work can complement what goes on in the classroom in ways that benefit both the community and students. Of course, AQ readers may have heard of tendentious programs and faculty ideologues, who channel student enthusiasm into partisan activism. Still, statistical survey analysis presented here by Mary Prentice suggests that participation in service learning can increase students’ civic engagement, when civic engagement is defined as more than just political action.Outside work can complement what goes on in the classroom in ways that benefit both the community and students. Of course, AQ readers may have heard of tendentious programs and faculty ideologues, who channel student enthusiasm into partisan activism. Still, statistical survey analysis presented here by Mary Prentice suggests that participation in service learning can increase students' civic engagement, when civic engagement is defined as more than just political action.     

Civic Engagement Among Community College Students Through Service Learning

Higher education has been called upon to prepare its graduates to be civically engaged community members. Since the 1980s, faculty have taken up this call. Service learning is a common strategy that educators have adopted to stimulate civic engagement in students. In this study, service learning students and nonservice learning students from eight community colleges were given precourse and postcourse surveys on civic engagement. Results revealed a statistically significant increase in service learners’ civic engagement when compared to nonservice learners. The findings are consistent with other higher education studies that use an expanded definition of civic engagement.     

Positioning Civic Engagement on the Higher Education Landscape: Insights from a civically engaged pedagogy

The significance of competing conceptions of civic engagement is increasingly apparent as efforts are made to respond to the measurement imperative that characterises contemporary higher education. The importance of devising appropriate means of recognising and incentivising civic engagement is asserted in this paper and the potential offered by emerging measurement and mapping methodologies is considered. The empirical basis for the argument derives from a multi-site case study of the process of embedding community-based learning within Irish higher education. Analysis of interview data from four cases, drawn from the university and extra-university sector, yielded, inter alia, a typology of orientations to civic engagement. Findings are discussed, including those relating to orientations, ambivalence, scepticism, and legitimisation strategies. The case is made that these themes and the factors which impact on sustainability are mirrored within the wider domain of civic engagement—hence the opportunity to learn from a civically engaged pedagogy.

     

Protest Reconsidered: Identifying Democratic and Civic Engagement Learning Outcomes

Using a case study approach, the authors examine the democratic and civic engagement learning outcomes of a campus protest. The conceptual framework is built on the ideas outlined in Learning Reconsidered (Keeling 2004) and modeled in its pragmatic follow-up, Learning Reconsidered 2 (Keeling 2006). Results suggest student and campus administrator actions during a campus protest support democratic aims, student development, and digital age democracy. Recommendations for campus educators are included. This study extends previous discussion on activism’s journey from detrimental to developmental (Astin 1999; Chambers & Phelps 1993; Hamrick 1998; Hunter 1988) by mapping the learning environment through the interaction of protestor and university and by incorporating new forms of activism. J. Patrick Biddix  received his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with specialization in Higher Education from the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is currently Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Research Methodology in the Department of Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology at Valdosta State University. His primary research interests include college student uses of technology outside the classroom, career pathways in student affairs, and research methodology. Patricia A. Somers  received her Ph.D. in Educational Administration with specialization in Higher Education from the University of New Orleans. She is currently an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests include college access, student persistence, student development theory, and two-year colleges. Joseph L. Polman  received his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Technology in the Division of Teaching and Learning at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. His primary research interests include inquiry-based learning involving computers and the Internet as tools, viewed from a sociocultural perspective.     

美国服务学习对我国高校公民教育的启示

美国的公民教育作为公民教育的范式,在许多国家得到推广,特别是服务学习作为公民教育的方式在美国得到广泛的认可,并取得一定的成效。服务学习主要包括准备、服务、反思和庆祝四个基本环节,其中理论与实践的紧密结合是该教育模式的最大特点,也是取得成效的重要原因。当前,我国大多数高校进行公民教育,但收效微弱,建议借鉴美国服务学习模式,以增强我国高校公民教育的实效性。     

论高等教育服务与高等教育服务质量

教育是一种消费，高等教育机构提供一种高等教育服务。高等教育服务的构成要素包括：供求主体、供求客体和供求关系。作为教育消费者，学生在消费高等教育服务时，目前主体权益受损。文章建议维护教育消费者权益、提高高等教育服务质量。     

关于公民教育在我国高等教育中地位的思考

大学生群体是一种特定"社会人"群体,属于精英型的少数人群体,其特定社会角色决定了:这样的社会群体无疑需要承担起其对于社会、对于国家、对于人民以及对于历史的义不容辞的责任,承担起主导社会进步、引领社会发展的使命;为此,也就需要具备其能够承担这个责任和履行这个使命的知识素养、社会素养和道德素养.如何将大学生培养成未来良好社会的实践者、推动者和引领者,无疑就成了高等学校的现实任务和重大课题.     

高职院校服务学习课程体系建设

服务学习是一种在行动和反思过程中进行的经验性学习,它将学业学习和社区服务有机结合在一起。在高职教育中引入服务学习理念并建立相应的课程体系,有利于高职学生在实践与反思中深化理论内容,树立服务社会的人生观,培养职业核心能力,养成爱岗敬业的职业道德与良好的团队合作精神。     

美国高校服务学习理论模式初探

世纪之交以来,融服务与学习为一体的服务学习已成为美国高等教育领域中一种方兴未艾的教育方式,并形成了若干理论模式。其中,慈善模式、公民参与模式和社群模式堪称美国高校服务学习的三种典型理论模式。三种理论模式由于立足的思想基础不同,各有特色和优缺点,并在美国高校服务学习领域中均有属于各自的市场。     

Integrating Aging and Civic Engagement into the Curriculum

This conceptual paper is based on interdisciplinary work the authors have participated in as part of the renewed push for civic engagement, the various forms it takes, and the multiple constituencies involved in its promotion. We focus on what theoretical and empirical content could be incorporated into courses on aging so that students can be prepared to critically think about, understand, and analyze both practice and policy aspects of civic engagement and aging. We provide three learning cases that can be used as classroom exercises, suggest sample assignments, and examine implications of engagement for older adults. We append a sample syllabus that can be used as a framework to convey this content in an elective course or as a module of a social gerontology course. The call for civic engagement is being heard throughout the United States across sectors and across population groups. In this article, we begin with background information on the renewed push for civic engagement, the various forms it takes, and the multiple constituencies involved in its promotion. Following a brief contextual background, we focus on theoretical and empirical content that could be incorporated into courses on aging so that students can be prepared to understand and critically analyze the implications of civic engagement for older adults. Four units that could constitute a one-credit module or become part of an existing gerontology course are provided, complete with discussion questions, learning cases that can be used in classroom exercises, as well as sample assignments. We conclude with a sample course syllabus around which this module could be constructed in order to convey this content.     

美国高校推动公民教育发展的策略及启示

美国高校公民教育在历史上曾经走过一段弯路,现今通过在高校教育理念、课程与教学改革、公民教育研究上的不断推动,美国高校正在重新恢复其公民教育的使命。借鉴美国高校公民教育的发展策略,将对我国高校公民教育发展带来有益的启发。     

Global Learning and Development as an Engagement Strategy for Christian Higher Education: A Macro Study

The purpose of this research was to better understand the variety of student and faculty global learning and development programs by member institutions of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), and what motivated the creation of these types of programs. Although various forms of global engagement programming were examined, the scope of the study primarily focused on mutually beneficial long-term programs that had been designed to reduce poverty, alleviate social problems, and promote other forms of social progress. Data were collected over a seven-month period in 2014 from interviews with 19 faculty and global learning and development leaders who represented 13 CCCU member institutions. The findings documented a wide variety of CCCU-sponsored global programs and partnerships, the motives and faith foundations for these global initiatives, and various levels of institutional support for global programming.     

终身学习的全球趋势与大学的应答

大学正面临着越来越多的社会压力。终身学习思潮的传播强化了学习的意义，也导致学习观念、学习内容、学习方式等朝向多样化、灵活化方向发展，造成大学传统的独尊地位产生动摇；经济全球化进程的加快产生了劳动在国际范围内的重新划分，即需要更多的知识工人，这种情况对大学的职能提出挑战。     

学习支持服务与学生参与度关系的调查研究——以浙江奥鹏远程教育为例

远程教育的质量和效益竞争离不开良好的学习支持服务,因此,关注远程教育的学习支持服务问题,提高学习支持服务的力度,是解决远程教育质量问题和持续发展问题的重要途径,其中学生学习参与度又是考量学习支持服务是否具有力度的重要方法。基于这样的认识,本研究在访谈和文献分析基础上设计了“学习支持服务问卷”和“学生学习参与度问卷”,就两者互相影响的问题专门展开了调查,调查数据显示学习支持服务和学习参与度之间存在显著正相关。希望本研究能对学习支持服务方面的决策提供支撑。     

高职"学习支持服务体系"的构建

以学生及学生学习为中心的“学习支持服务体系”是一种值得探索和研究的职业教育教学管理模式。谈体系以建构主义和情境认知学习理论为理论依据，在设计时使学生明确如何获得支持，满足学生的多种需要，为学生提供多种学习资源和学习活动以及共享知识的平台。     

Rearticulating Civic Engagement Through Cultural Studies and Service-Learning

Although service-learning has the potential to infuse technical communication pedagogy with civic goals, it can easily be co-opted by a hyperpragmatism that limits ethical critique and civic engagement. Service-learning's component of reflection, in particular, can become an uncritical, narrow invention or project management tool. Integrating cultural studies and service-learning can help position students as critical citizens who produce effective and ethical discourse and who create more inclusive forms of power. Rather than being tacked on, cultural studies approaches should be incorporated into core service-learning assignments.