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Nagle, James Michael – Religious Education, 2021
Service learning and short-term missions represent one of the many habits disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The disruption imposed a break from routine that may also offer opportunities to push back on habits that hinder the flourishing of our students and our host communities. This article critically analyzes the practice of these trips to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Service Learning, Educational Change
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Trinitapoli, Jenny; Vaisey, Stephen – Social Forces, 2009
Sociologists have long sought to understand the relationship between collective experiences and individual commitments. This article examines the short-term mission as an institutionalized religious experience, assessing its prevalence, predictors and impact on the religious trajectories of the youth who participate in them. Religiously devout…
Descriptors: Group Experience, Individual Development, Adolescents, Identification