The Adoption of Service Learning in Universities Around The World

• Authors: Stuart Umpleby , Gabriela Rakicevik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the United States, service learning has proven to be an effective means for both education and for community development. It seems logical to assume that service learning would be similarly effective in other countries. However, universities in other countries operate quite differently from universities in the U. S. Discussions with professors from the former Soviet Union and Southeast Europe produced a list of obstacles to transferring service learning to other countries. This paper suggests some ways of minimizing these obstacles. As service learning is implemented in universities around the world, opportunities for people to learn from the experiences of others will increase.

Keywords

EN

Service Learning; University; Countries

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: South East European Journal of Economics and Business
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 69-74

Dates

published

2007-11-01

online

2008-03-04

Contributors

author

Stuart Umpleby

• Social and Organizational Learning, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052

author

Gabriela Rakicevik

• Faculty of Tourism and Organizational Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski University, Ohrid, Macedonia

References

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• Enos, S. L. (1996). "Service -Learning in the Curriculum," Service Learning in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices, Barbara Jacoby and Associates (eds.), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Vol.1, Nr.1., A Publication of the Office of Community Service Learning at the University of Michigan, Fall 1994.
• Torres, J., Schaffer, J. (2000). "Benchmarks for Campus/Community Partnerships," Providence: Campus Compact.
• Umpleby, Stuart A. (2005). "How Graduate Students in Management do Projects with Local and International Organizations," CoRAL Conference, The George Washington University, April, 30, 2005.
• Umpleby, Stuart A. and Pavel A. Makeyenko (2005). "Using Email in International Student Group Projects," Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Applied Learning Technology, Arlington, VA, August 24-26, 2005.
• Vladimirov, Zhelyu Private correspondence while Vladimirov was at The George Washington University in Fall 2006.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10033-007-0007-z