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Improving Interpersonal Communication through Community Service
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Hoffman, August John; Wallach, Julie; Sanchez, Eduardo; Afkhami, Hasti – Community College Enterprise, 2009
The current study sought to determine if community based gardening projects would reduce perceptions of the need to use communication devices--cell phones or text messaging--and increase the likelihood of participating in future volunteer projects. Results strongly support the predictions in that the experimental group post-test mean score of the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Interpersonal Communication, Service Learning
Gardening Activities, Education, and Self-Esteem: Learning outside the Classroom
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Hoffman, August John; Morales Knight, Luis F.; Wallach, Julie – Urban Education, 2007
Numerous articles have been written about the impact of community-based work and self-esteem, self-efficacy, and gardening in an educational environment. Empirical data suggest that when students have become involved in a group effort designed to improve a school, community, or society, a sense of interdependency and loyalty to that institution…
Descriptors: Students, Gardening, Self Efficacy, Community Colleges
Reducing Self-Entitlement Attitudes through Service Learning
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Hoffman, August; Wallach, Julie – Community College Enterprise, 2007
The purpose of the current study is to explore the effects of community service work and community involvement on perceptions of self-entitlement--expectations of others to do things for oneself--among undergraduate students. Over the course of a 16-week semester, 26 randomly selected subjects (20 community college psychology students and six…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Community Involvement, Service Learning