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Valencia-Forrester, Faith; Backhaus, Bridget – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2023
Studying in a foreign country can be a valuable experience for international students, but it may also involve uncertainty, loneliness, and questionable graduate outcomes. Given the importance of the international student market to higher education institutions, there is a clear incentive to find ways of engaging international students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, Foreign Students, College Students
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Evans, Carl; Yusof, Zatun N. – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic reduced the availability of work placements in commercial organisations for university students and potentially changed the nature of placements in the future. Similarly, charitable organisations who were already suffering budget restrictions have been financially affected by COVID-19 due to reduced revenue on trading…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, College Students, Work Experience, Job Skills
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Paul Joseph-Richard; Kieran M. Conroy – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Self-initiated international placements by students have been largely ignored in the literature on outward mobility in higher education. The support given to self-initiated international placement students, if any, has received even less attention. This study aims to address this lacuna. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on insights…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Foreign Students, Student Placement, Student Mobility
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Angela Kolen; Natalie Houser; Dean Kriellaars – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
This 'teaching tip' shares the success of a service-learning opportunity created to work with university students in a meaningful way in the community. It describes a program called Fit 4 Tots that resulted in more toddlers, university students and community members benefiting from learning and movement experiences.
Descriptors: Toddlers, Physical Activity Level, Role Models, Program Implementation
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Esentürk, Oguz Kaan; Güngör, Nuri Berk – International Education Studies, 2020
The general aim of the study is to determine the motivation of volunteers to participate in the sportive activities of mentally handicapped individuals (Study 1) and to reveal the details that can ensure the continuity of these volunteering activities (Study 2). In Study I, a survey model including the qualitative paradigm was used. Study I was…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Volunteers, College Students, Intellectual Disability
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Johanna Thomas-Maude; Sharon McLennan; Vicky Walters – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
In recent years, English-language voluntourism (EVT) has grown in popularity, with many conceptualizing it as a form of cultural exchange between English speaking volunteers and members of a non-English speaking host community. This article explores relationships between and within volunteers and host groups of an EVT program in Lima, Peru. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Volunteers, Tourism, Language Teachers
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Yang, Jinyu; Hoskins, Bryony – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
Universities can be understood as a key site for the transmission of democratic values by helping young people participate directly in democratic activities and education. Thus, it is important to understand whether and how citizenship learning takes place at universities in the UK. This article uses citizenship in transition (CiT) data to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Attendance, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education
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Borchardt, Jamie – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2021
Service learning can bridge the gap between traditional and transformational learning, as students are able to relate the course terminology directly to field experience. This project was set up to determine if volunteering for a semester at Hospice had any effect on emotional intelligence and positivity. A paired samples t-test compared…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Transformative Learning, Student Volunteers, Hospices (Terminal Care)
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Hart, Adam G.; Leather, Simon R.; Sharma, Manju V. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
The overseas field course is a common feature of European and North American undergraduate degrees and increasingly students are seeking out volunteering opportunities abroad in order to gain career-related experience in the overcrowded conservation sector. We argue that, without careful consideration, both activities run the twin risks of…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Field Experience Programs, Undergraduate Students, Student Volunteers
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Jewell Beckett, T.; Murphy, Ondrea – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
Academic libraries have long employed student workers to assist with routine tasks, creating beneficial outcomes for both the student and the library. Traditionally, these tasks primarily consisted of checking in/out materials, shelving books, and monitoring the library; however, libraries have also started allowing students to assist in a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Student Employment, College Students, Library Services
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Thomas Albright – Berkeley Review of Education, 2023
This project examined the experiences of six Ethnic Studies students who simultaneously engaged in two youth participatory action research (YPAR) projects, one in school and one out of school. The in-school project was situated within an urban high school that had a predominantly Latinx student population. The research explored the relationship…
Descriptors: High School Students, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Ethnic Studies
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Delfin, Danae; Eke, Ransome; Gray, Haleigh; Kerr, Zachary Y.; Wallace, Jessica S. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: This study examined the association between participation in school-based and/or community-based activity and major depressive episodes (MDE) in adolescents using nationally representative data. Methods: This study utilized cross-sectional data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health from 2015 to 2019. Nine screening questions…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), School Activities, Community Involvement, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Hsu, Pi-Chun; Chang, I-Hsiung; Chen, Ru-Si – SAGE Open, 2021
This study focused on college students' attitudes toward the relationship between online civic responsibility and online civic engagement and its impacts. It also investigated the mediating roles of online civic learning and online civic expression in this relationship. A survey was conducted in Taiwan, testing for indirect effects with mediated…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Responsibility, Civics, Electronic Learning
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Shamma, Fathi; Kassem, Alia – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Voluntarily work is very significant. Due to the significance of such work, the researchers explored the attitudes of outstanding students at the Arab Academic College for Education in Israel and students at other colleges in Israel towards voluntarily work during the COVID-19 crisis. Students filled in two scales. The first scale included 34…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, College Students
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R. C. Asher; V. A. Shrewsbury; B. Innes; A. Fitzpatrick; S. Simmonds; V. Cross; A. Rose; E. Hinton; C. E. Collins – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Culinary nutrition education can support improved diet-related health and wellbeing. This pre-post pilot study aimed to assess feasibility and acceptability of an eight-session culinary nutrition programme, the Food and Lifestyle Information Programme (FLIP), for adults with mild-to-moderate intellectual disability. A secondary aim was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Intellectual Disability, Nutrition, Moderate Intellectual Disability
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