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dc.contributor.authorBerg, Devin R., 1986-
dc.contributor.authorBuchanan, Elizabeth A., 1968-
dc.contributor.authorLee, Tina, 1976-
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-26T15:18:52Z
dc.date.available2016-02-26T15:18:52Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationBerg, D.R., Lee, T., and Buchanan, E.A., 2016. A methodology for exploring, documenting, and improving humanitarian service learning in the university. Journal of Humanitarian Engineering. Vol. 4, No. 1.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/74136
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en
dc.description.abstractThrough the use of service learning in higher education, universities hope to both provide real benefit to the partnering community and allow students to develop a greater understanding of course curriculum, their discipline, and their personal positioning within society. Through these educational activities, service learning seeks to engage students in critical thinking processes while simultaneously achieving a greater sense of civic and social responsibility through targeted participation in meaningful community service activities. However, in practice, service learning can take a variety of forms predicated on technical, cultural, societal, and political constraints. Thus, while some work shows positive effects on students? attitudes, social behaviour, and academic performance, less research has demonstrated long-term community impact. Nor has much research shown that participation in service learning has a long-term impact on students' ethical perspectives and frameworks, and whether those ethical frames carry on to their professional careers. Moreover, as institutions partner with such humanitarian service groups as Engineers Without Borders USA, we know considerably less about the institutional cultures and climates that are developed through such partnerships and how sustainable they are, given those inherent technical, political and cultural limitations. As a first step towards these goals, this paper proposes a methodology for investigating the impacts of service learning activities on both the students and communities involved.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectengineering educationen
dc.subjecthigher educationen
dc.subjecthumanitarianen
dc.subjecthumanitarian engineeringen
dc.subject.lcshEngineering ethicsen
dc.subject.lcshProfessional ethicsen
dc.subject.lcshEngineeringen
dc.subject.lcshService learningen
dc.subject.lcshEngineering--Study and teachingen
dc.subject.lcshEducation, Higheren
dc.subject.lcshCurriculum planningen
dc.subject.lcshInquiry (Theory of knowledge)en
dc.titleMethodology for exploring, documenting, and improving humanitarian service learning in the universityen
dc.typeArticleen


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