Table of contents - Special Issue: Student learning from community engagement
Guest Editors: Juliet Millican, Tom Bourner
Student‐community engagement and the changing role and context of higher education
Juliet Millican, Tom BournerThe purpose of this Editorial is to introduce key themes in the area of student‐community engagement (SCE) and the papers included in this special issue.
Student‐community engagement and the development of graduate attributes
Kristine Mason O'Connor, Kenny Lynch, David OwenThe purpose of this paper is to explore the role of student‐community engagement in ensuring relevance of higher education to civil, social, economic and moral issues. It reviews…
Dublin Institute of Technology's Programme for Students Learning With Communities: A critical account of practice
Elena Gamble, Catherine BatesThis paper aims to focus on the process of critically evaluating Dublin Institute of Technology's Programme for Students Learning With Communities after its first year of…
Both‐and, not either‐or: knowledge and service‐learning
Maureen Casile, Kristine F. Hoover, Deborah A. O'NeilThe purpose of this paper is to expand the understanding of outcomes of service‐learning/community engagement. The current study explored the efficacy of service‐learning as a…
University‐community engagement: a case study using popular theatre
Robert Feagan, Katherine RossiterThe purpose of this paper is to examine the use of popular theatre (PT) as a pedagogical tool around which a community service learning (CSL) senior undergraduate course was…
Assessing learning from a student community engagement project
Jessica JungThe purpose of this paper is to chart developments in a community engagement scheme run by two Universities in the North East, offering students academic credit in return for work…
Civic education in research universities: leaders or followers?
Elizabeth L. HollanderResearch‐intensive universities have special challenges in providing their students with civic education, particularly education that is rooted in the curriculum. Their efforts…
Student volunteering in England: a critical moment
Jamie Darwen, Andrea Grace RannardThe purpose of this paper is to present the current state of student volunteering in English universities, and show how it contributes to some of the core activities of higher…
Transformative learning through service‐learning: no passport required
Phil Bamber, Les HankinThis paper aims to explore student learning within a local service‐learning initiative that forms part of an Education Studies undergraduate programme at an HEI in the UK with a…
Service‐learning and the development of empathy in US college students
Judy C. WilsonThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the influence of a service‐learning experience on the personal development of college students, particularly focusing on the expression of…
Now for the science bit: implementing community‐based learning in chemistry
Claire McDonnell, Patricia Ennis, Leslie ShoemakerThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of student learning from community engagement by critically assessing the implementation of this pedagogical…
Student internships bridge research to real world problems
Michaela Hynie, Krista Jensen, Michael Johnny, Jane Wedlock, David PhippsThe aim of this paper is to report on student perceptions of 24 graduate student internships funded in 2007‐2008 by York University's Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit. These…
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