Keeping Up with the Times: Changing Perceptions and Outcomes of Community-Engaged Learning
Presentation Format
Individual Presentation
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Presentation Description
For the past several years faculty members at Duke in the university service-learning program, our community-based language initiative, our Education department, our undergraduate advising system, and our university office of assessment have collaborated on a series of scholarly projects designed to further our understanding of the perceptions and attitudes undergraduate students have of service learning. This presentation will discuss the intellectual endeavor and specifically present the results of a study tracking student perceptions of service-learning and social entrepreneurship as well as the results of two cohorts of students who took the Global Perspectives Inventory their first and senior years at Duke U. We are keenly interested in different aspects of undergraduates’ perceptions of community service and civic engagement. By exploring the degree to which students have changing perceptions of community engagement and service-learning, we believe that we can contribute to the growing scholarship on community-engaged learning and help build a more robust theoretical model of community-oriented experiential pedagogy.
Location
Room - 217
Start Date
4-15-2016 8:15 AM
End Date
4-15-2016 9:30 AM
Recommended Citation
Clifford, Joan; Malone, David; Anderson, Amy; and Serra, Matt, "Keeping Up with the Times: Changing Perceptions and Outcomes of Community-Engaged Learning" (2016). Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning 2016. 18.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gss/2016/2016/18
Keeping Up with the Times: Changing Perceptions and Outcomes of Community-Engaged Learning
Room - 217
For the past several years faculty members at Duke in the university service-learning program, our community-based language initiative, our Education department, our undergraduate advising system, and our university office of assessment have collaborated on a series of scholarly projects designed to further our understanding of the perceptions and attitudes undergraduate students have of service learning. This presentation will discuss the intellectual endeavor and specifically present the results of a study tracking student perceptions of service-learning and social entrepreneurship as well as the results of two cohorts of students who took the Global Perspectives Inventory their first and senior years at Duke U. We are keenly interested in different aspects of undergraduates’ perceptions of community service and civic engagement. By exploring the degree to which students have changing perceptions of community engagement and service-learning, we believe that we can contribute to the growing scholarship on community-engaged learning and help build a more robust theoretical model of community-oriented experiential pedagogy.
Program Abstract
Our research agenda explores the changing perceptions of and attitudes about community engagement among students, faculty, and administrators. Trying to keep up with the times we have embarked on these complementary studies of student pathways to contribute to a more robust theoretical model of experiential pedagogy. We include results from various studies including one comparing SL and social entrepreneurship, as well as one looking at student development indicated in the Global Perspectives Inventory.