The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing Service-learning in an Advanced Instructional Design and Technology Curricula: Implications for Teaching Professional Courses

• Authors: Farrah Dina Yusop , Ana-Paula Correia

Abstracts

EN

This paper reports on the benefits and challenges of integrating service-learning pedagogy into a professional course taught at a US Midwestern university. Data were collected via observations, interviews and analyses of students’ online discussions, written reflections, and project work. Findings revealed that the service-learning approach improves academic learning, increases motivation to learn and serve, escalates civic values and develops a sense of concern over broader social issues. Most importantly, it prepares students to be civic-minded professionals who are concerned with the betterment of society. Additionally, the authentic and open nature of service-learning was found to contribute to intense group conflicts. Suggestions to eliminate such challenges are also discussed.

Keywords

EN

service learning; social responsibility; social issues; higher education; professional education; civic-minded professional

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 220-232

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Farrah Dina Yusop

• University of Malaya

author

Ana-Paula Correia

• Iowa State University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.13.32.2.18

Biblioteka Nauki

26181287