Download or read book The Impact of Service learning Activities on Students Attitudes Toward the Elderly written by Catherine Ventura-Merkel and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Service learning on Elementary Students Attitudes Towards the Elderly written by Shauna Kay Reimche and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Service Learning in Higher Education written by Barbara Jacoby and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1996-09-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an added value, the book describes and provides contact information for national organizations that support service-learning and resources that are useful in helping students make postcollege service and career choices. Service-Learning in Higher Education is an invaluable resource for all campus professionals - including faculty members, student affairs practitioners, and senior academic leaders who are interested in advancing the goals of student learning and development while simultaneously making a unique contribution to the community.
Download or read book Service learning Impact on Eight to Ten year old Students Attitudes and Knowledge about Senior Citizens written by Julie Anne Palkowski and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was designed to look at the relationship between intergenerational service-learning experiences for public school elementary students and their attitudes and knowledge of senior citizens before and after service-learning experiences. In addition, a comparison of knowledge and attitudes about senior citizens was made between this class of students and another class who did not participate in service-learning activities.
Download or read book Evaluating Service Learning Activities and Programs written by David A. Payne and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses an extended case study to guide teachers through evaluation of service-learning outcomes and their relevance to the curriculum. Covers the evaluation process from question formulation to instrumentation, data collection, and application. Current professional practices are emphasized throughout. Includes a list of state organizations supporting service learning, and some 40 pages of sample checklists and forms. Payne is director of Test Scoring and Reporting Services and professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Impact of Service learning on College Students Attitudes Towards Aging Skills for Working with the Elderly and Increased Knowledge and Understanding of the Aging Process written by Shelly L. Selchow and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Service Learning and Its Effect on Students Attitudes Towards Learning written by William Thomas Conard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research study was to examine if students who participated in curricular service learning projects guided by a teacher would have significantly more positive attitudes about learning than those students who did service learning without the guidance of a teacher (community service)? A service learning project is generally defined as a thoughtfully organized community service experience than enhances what teachers have chosen as the objectives, standards and curriculum in their classrooms. Service learning projects focus on providing students with the opportunities to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can be applied to real-life situations. The sample for this study consisted of students who had participated in either service learning or community service projects. The sample also consisted of teachers who had implemented a service learning project with their students. The students and teachers came from an urban public high school in Chicago in which students are required to complete forty hours of service learning in order to graduate. This research study incorporated both quantitative and qualitative methods and data analysis. The annual Service Learning Survey administered by the sample high school was analyzed using t-Tests while also comparing percentages between the responses to the survey from the two groups of one hundred and thirty four students - forty nine self-identified service learning students and eighty five self-identified community service students. Focus groups were conducted in order to have a more in-depth and holistic analysis of the experiences of the students. There were three focus iii group sessions: ten students who did service learning, ten students who did community service, and ten teachers who implemented a service learning project with their students. The systematic analysis of the data from the focus groups included an inferential content analysis of the responses based on the dimensions of the attitudes towards learning as identified in the framework of the research study. The analysis of the quantitative data collected showed that the percentage of students answering strongly agree or agree was considerably higher with the service learning students than with the community service students. Overall, thirteen of the eighteen questions had service learning students answering more positively than the community service students. With the t-Tests, although there was no statistically significant difference when analyzing strongly agree and agree answers, there was a statistical difference for the service learning students on three questions when analyzing agree answers only. The inferential content analysis of the qualitative data from the student and teacher focus groups suggested that the students who did service learning had more positive attitudes toward their learning than the students who did community service.
Download or read book Ober Erzgebirge written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Service learning written by Alan S. Waterman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking research and educational practice for the benefit of both is not a new idea. If practice such as service-learning is a bold departure from the status quo, however, research is not just beneficial, it is critical. If schools are to become laboratories of democracy and entrepreneurship, and if students are to become engaged as partners in renewal of their communities, a research case must be made for service-learning. Does learning take place? Will other kinds of learning suffer? What kinds of practice are most effective? Clearly, solid research is essential if this transforming way of teaching and learning is to be fully integrated into American schooling and youth development institutions. The National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) took a first step toward joining service-learning practice with research in 1983. In 1991, NYLC created a center which initiated and encouraged program evaluation, formative research that informs and improves practice, and summative studies that measure results. This volume grew out of a National Service-Learning Conference--an annual event convened by the NYLC. A day long research seminar at the conference brought together researchers to discuss the latest developments among themselves and with practitioners. Impressive in their range and rigor, their papers offer documentation and analysis useful to an emerging research knowledge base. It is a starting point for the evidence needed to firmly establish service-learning for K-12 age people as a widely accepted way of teaching and learning.
Download or read book Service Learning Through a Multidisciplinary Lens written by Shelley H. Billig and published by IAP. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supporting the Elderly Through Service Learning written by Marcia Amidon Lusted and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loads of learning takes place in the classroom, but it is by no means the only place for students to gain knowledge and experience. This innovative resource introduces service learning and why it can be such a helpful tool for students, the elderly, and the larger community. Successful service learning projects are described throughout the book, which highlight how they work as well as the benefits of getting to know the often overlooked senior population within our communities. Forthright discussions of the challenges and benefits highlight why service-learning projects can be a satisfying, fun, and memorable way to learn.
Download or read book Advancing Knowledge in Service Learning written by Shelley H. Billig and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this series of books is to advance the knowledge in the service-learning research field. More importantly, this research is to be used to transform the field. This transformation will come from realizing both the history of service-learning and trying to imagine what the future may look like. The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learning research has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike have benefited from its dissemination and use the research to improve practice. The research does not simply inform educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a service-learning practice that can transform both individuals and institutions.
Download or read book Deconstructing Service Learning written by Janet Eyler and published by IAP. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher education; and more.
Download or read book Service Learning and Its Effects on Students Attitudes Toward Learning written by William Thomas Conard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Education Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Service Learning on Community Involvement Attitude in Career and Technical Education Students written by Christopher Daniel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Service-Learning is a teaching methodology, which incorporates community service and classroom learning. Students take the skills and techniques gained in the classroom into the community to address real world problems. The basis for this methodology comes from the theories of John Dewey and more recently the Experiential Education Theory of D.A. Kolb. The three phases of preparation, action, and reflection move service-learning beyond other models of experiential education to build a reciprocally beneficial model for all stakeholders. This quantitative study examines the effect service-learning has on attitudes toward community involvement among community college, career and technical education students of eastern Kentucky. This study uses a non-equivalent control group design. During the spring 2012 semester, the 25 students in the experimental group completed the pretest, treatment, and posttest. The control group, consists of 19 new students enrolled in the same programs and they completed the pretest and posttest during the fall 2012 semester. The study explored the student's awareness of community issues and their feelings of responsibility to become involved in community service. The ANCOVA analysis shows a significant difference between the groups. The results suggest the value of service-learning activities as a contributor to both awareness and responsibility toward community involvement.
Download or read book American Dementia written by Daniel R. George and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have the social safety nets, environmental protections, and policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia today—and how do we improve brain health in the future? Winner of the American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest, Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book Awards For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future? In American Dementia, Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, and Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, argue that the current decline of dementia may be strongly linked to mid–twentieth century policies that reduced inequality, provided widespread access to education and healthcare, and brought about cleaner air, soil, and water. They also • explain why Alzheimer's disease, an obscure clinical label until the 1970s, is the hallmark illness of our current hyper-capitalist era; • reveal how the soaring inequalities of the twenty-first century—which are sowing poverty, barriers to healthcare and education, loneliness, lack of sleep, stressful life events, environmental exposures, and climate change—are reversing the gains of the twentieth century and damaging our brains; • tackle the ageist tendencies in our culture, which disadvantage both vulnerable youth and elders; • make an evidence-based argument that policies like single-payer healthcare, a living wage, and universal access to free higher education and technical training programs will build collective resilience to dementia; • promote strategies that show how local communities can rise above the disconnection and loneliness that define our present moment and come together to care for our struggling neighbors. Ultimately, American Dementia asserts that actively remembering lessons from the twentieth century which help us become a healthier, wiser, and more compassionate society represents our most powerful intervention for preventing Alzheimer's and protecting human dignity. Exposing the inconvenient truths that confound market-based approaches to memory enhancement as well as broader social organization, the book imagines how we can act as citizens to protect our brains, build the cognitive resilience of younger generations, and rise to the moral challenge of caring for the cognitively frail.
