Pub Date : 2019-09-17DOI: 10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0025.202
Joanna Gonsalves, E. Metchik, Cynthia E. Lynch, Charlotte N. Belezos, Paula Richards
A framework widely used in the field of industrial-organizational psychology, the Job Characteristics Model (JCM) (Hackman & Oldham, 1976), was applied in the current study to measure the quality of students’ servicelearningexperiencesastheyrelatetostudentoutcomes.Itwashypothesizedthatservice-learningprojectswithhigher motivating potential, in terms of characteristics underlying job satisfaction according to the JCM, would lead to greater increases in learner motivation and general self-efficacy. Study participants were 228 students engaged in service-learning courses at five community colleges and one state university in the Northeastern United States. The results showed that changes in students’ self-efficacy scores were moderated by the motivating potential of servicelearning courses. Furthermore, learner empowerment appeared to be a partial mediator of this relationship. The study provides support for the application of the JCM in designing service-learning experiences to strengthen students’ coursemotivationandself-efficacy.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0025.106
Emily B Zimmerman, Gwen Corley Creighton, Chimere Miles, Sarah Cook, Amber Haley, Chanel Bea, Andrea Robles, Alicia Aroche
Each community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnership may incur "ripple effects" - impacts that happen outside the scope of planned projects. We used brainstorming and interviewing to create a roadmap that incorporated input from nine CBPR participants and five community/academic partners to retrospectively assess the ripple effects observed after five years of participatory research in one urban community. The resulting roadmap reflected a range of community impacts which we then divided into four key areas: impacts in the community (i.e., strategies, programs, and policies implemented by community partners), impacts on the CBPR team, impacts on individuals (participants and community members), and contributions to the field and the university. Our approach focused on observing what happened in the community that was directly or indirectly related to our partnership, process, products, and relationships. Much of the impact we observed reflected the synergy of sharing our research and community voice with responsive partners and stakeholders.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-12DOI: 10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0025.107
Beth Berila
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Pub Date : 2018-12-12DOI: 10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0025.103
Barbara E. Moely, Vincent Ilustre
How is required public service during college related to later civic behavior? This article reports findings from a survey of 359 alumni, conducted two years after they completed their undergraduate studies at Tulane University. The alumni held positive views of the substantial public service requirement they had completed before graduating and saw it as influencing their later civic attitudes and career development. Public service activities in which they engaged post- graduation involved community service (volunteer-ing, program development) and donations to local and national agencies; they reported little political or formal civic participation. Both co- curricular service and service- learning/public service academic course work during college predicted alumni service activities and civic attitudes. Especially, participation in more advanced and individualized public service academic experiences (public service internships, community- based research, and other advanced service- learning course work) was related to later civic outcomes.
{"title":"Service Involvement and Civic Attitudes of University Alumni: Later Correlates of Required Public Service Participation during College","authors":"Barbara E. Moely, Vincent Ilustre","doi":"10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0025.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0025.103","url":null,"abstract":"How is required public service during college related to later civic behavior? This article reports findings from a survey of 359 alumni, conducted two years after they completed their undergraduate studies at Tulane University. The alumni held positive views of the substantial public service requirement they had completed before graduating and saw it as influencing their later civic attitudes and career development. Public service activities in which they engaged post- graduation involved community service (volunteer-ing, program development) and donations to local and national agencies; they reported little political or formal civic participation. Both co- curricular service and service- learning/public service academic course work during college predicted alumni service activities and civic attitudes. Especially, participation in more advanced and individualized public service academic experiences (public service internships, community- based research, and other advanced service- learning course work) was related to later civic outcomes.","PeriodicalId":93128,"journal":{"name":"Michigan journal of community service learning","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89418397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-12DOI: 10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.101
L. Howard
This article examines the intersection of critical pedagogy, servicelearning, and interactive performance epistemology to describe the impact performance events and processes have on student learning. Specifically, this research extends Jill Dolan’s concept of utopian performance and illustrates the potential of performance not only to generate a utopian impulse essential to social change and transformation but also to stand as an intervention for social change. It clarifies the potential of utopian performance to change people, provoke action, and stand as an intervention.
{"title":"Performance, Pedagogy, Potential: Utopian Performance as Community-based Education","authors":"L. Howard","doi":"10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.101","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the intersection of critical pedagogy, servicelearning, and interactive performance epistemology to describe the impact performance events and processes have on student learning. Specifically, this research extends Jill Dolan’s concept of utopian performance and illustrates the potential of performance not only to generate a utopian impulse essential to social change and transformation but also to stand as an intervention for social change. It clarifies the potential of utopian performance to change people, provoke action, and stand as an intervention.","PeriodicalId":93128,"journal":{"name":"Michigan journal of community service learning","volume":"981 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77108978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-12DOI: 10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.102
Tania D. Mitchell, Colleen Rost-Banik
Developing values, interests, and skills for future careers, an important part of career development, is an outcome alumni perceive from participation in servicelearning. Using indepth interviews, this qualitative study of 33 alumni from three servicelearning programs suggests rich connections between sustained servicelearning experiences (i.e., coursebased community engagement programs lasting two or more consecutive terms) and career decisions. More specifically, alumni perceive their engagement in servicelearning as facilitating exploration of career possibilities connected to public service and social responsibility.
{"title":"How Sustained Service-Learning Experiences Inform Career Pathways","authors":"Tania D. Mitchell, Colleen Rost-Banik","doi":"10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.102","url":null,"abstract":"Developing values, interests, and skills for future careers, an important part of career development, is an outcome alumni perceive from participation in servicelearning. Using indepth interviews, this qualitative study of 33 alumni from three servicelearning programs suggests rich connections between sustained servicelearning experiences (i.e., coursebased community engagement programs lasting two or more consecutive terms) and career decisions. More specifically, alumni perceive their engagement in servicelearning as facilitating exploration of career possibilities connected to public service and social responsibility.","PeriodicalId":93128,"journal":{"name":"Michigan journal of community service learning","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91139832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-12DOI: 10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.204
Aurora Santiago-Ortiz
Diverging from the traditional approach to servicelearning, critical servicelearning focuses on the root causes of inequality by addressing power and oppression. By incorporating critical pedagogy in the classroom, and action and reflection outside of it, critical servicelearning looks to find solutions to social issues through university— community partnerships. In this article, I review relevant literature that centers social justice– based approaches to critical servicelearning and argue that while these approaches are vital to student understanding of oppression, an anticolonial framework is needed to broaden notions of critical servicelearning that challenge settler colonial logics. This article engages with the question “Can we decolonize critical servicelearning?” and concludes by offering practices, such as solidarity to counter coloniality in higher education, that are responsible to the communities involved in the servicelearning partnership.
{"title":"From Critical to Decolonizing Service-Learning: Limits and Possibilities to Social Justice-based Approaches to Community Service Learning","authors":"Aurora Santiago-Ortiz","doi":"10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.204","url":null,"abstract":"Diverging from the traditional approach to servicelearning, critical servicelearning focuses on the root causes of inequality by addressing power and oppression. By incorporating critical pedagogy in the classroom, and action and reflection outside of it, critical servicelearning looks to find solutions to social issues through university— community partnerships. In this article, I review relevant literature that centers social justice– based approaches to critical servicelearning and argue that while these approaches are vital to student understanding of oppression, an anticolonial framework is needed to broaden notions of critical servicelearning that challenge settler colonial logics. This article engages with the question “Can we decolonize critical servicelearning?” and concludes by offering practices, such as solidarity to counter coloniality in higher education, that are responsible to the communities involved in the servicelearning partnership.","PeriodicalId":93128,"journal":{"name":"Michigan journal of community service learning","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81438434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-12DOI: 10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.105
Kipton D. Smilie
Service- learning has become an integral component of American education, and scholars continue to debate its definition, purposes, and outcomes. Service- learning in the classroom is not without critics at present, however. This article provides an introductory examination of Irving Babbitt’s critiques of the service- learning ethic at its inception in the beginning of the 20th century, particularly of the ideas espoused by John Dewey. This consideration offers an incisive perspective on the service- learning ethic (and its critiques) in our own time.
{"title":"Irving Babbitt and the Service-Learning Ethic: An Early Critique of Deweyan Progressivism","authors":"Kipton D. Smilie","doi":"10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0025.105","url":null,"abstract":"Service- learning has become an integral component of American education, and scholars continue to debate its definition, purposes, and outcomes. Service- learning in the classroom is not without critics at present, however. This article provides an introductory examination of Irving Babbitt’s critiques of the service- learning ethic at its inception in the beginning of the 20th century, particularly of the ideas espoused by John Dewey. This consideration offers an incisive perspective on the service- learning ethic (and its critiques) in our own time.","PeriodicalId":93128,"journal":{"name":"Michigan journal of community service learning","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77511058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-21DOI: 10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.101
Mary Jo Callan
{"title":"From the Publisher","authors":"Mary Jo Callan","doi":"10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93128,"journal":{"name":"Michigan journal of community service learning","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83572205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-11-06DOI: 10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.105
R. Bringle
This article proposes enhancing student learning through civic engagement by considering the advantages of integrating servicelearning with study away, research, and internships and preprofessional courses into firstorder, secondorder, and thirdorder hybrid highimpact pedagogies. Servicelearning contributes numerous attributes to the other pedagogies (e.g., civic learning, regular and structured reflection, reciprocal partnerships, diversity, democratic values) that can produce outcomes that are more extensive, more robust, more transformational, and more distinctive than traditional pedagogies or a single highimpact practice. Possibilities for future research and implications for course design and implementation are proffered.
{"title":"Hybrid High-Impact Pedagogies: Integrating Service-Learning with Three Other High-Impact Pedagogies.","authors":"R. Bringle","doi":"10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MJCSLOA.3239521.0024.105","url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes enhancing student learning through civic engagement by considering the advantages of integrating servicelearning with study away, research, and internships and preprofessional courses into firstorder, secondorder, and thirdorder hybrid highimpact pedagogies. Servicelearning contributes numerous attributes to the other pedagogies (e.g., civic learning, regular and structured reflection, reciprocal partnerships, diversity, democratic values) that can produce outcomes that are more extensive, more robust, more transformational, and more distinctive than traditional pedagogies or a single highimpact practice. Possibilities for future research and implications for course design and implementation are proffered.","PeriodicalId":93128,"journal":{"name":"Michigan journal of community service learning","volume":"28 1","pages":"49-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87376408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}