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Joseph, Bianca Monique; Carolissen, Ronelle – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2019
Research suggests that the desire to help others (value) and learning interpersonal skills (understanding) are core reasons for student volunteerism. Interpretations of such reports often minimise the role of contextual factors in shaping volunteer motives. This study considers the policy and institutional contexts that advocate for community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Volunteers, Student Motivation, Context Effect
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Trottier-Scully, Taylor; Ritchie, Kerry – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2019
Through a previous review of high impact practices at our institution, we identified that health science students have very few opportunities to engage in experiential learning (EL) in the current curriculum. This paper describes our work to transform an existing volunteer opportunity at an allied health clinic, into a meaningful, student-driven,…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants
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Park, Meungguk; Chitiyo, Morgan; Huh, Changdeog; Zeleke, Waganesh – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2019
This study examined the extent to which six antecedent variables influenced college students' attitudes towards autism. A comprehensive literature review and factor analysis identified the six perceived antecedents, including "learning and volunteer experience," "family/friends with autism," "parental role,"…
Descriptors: College Students, Children, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Autism
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Resh, Nura; Sabbagh, Clara – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
Adult citizenship requires a gradual acquisition of political culture--knowledge, attitudes, skills and patterns of behavior necessary to engage in political action. This is especially the case in democratic societies, which are based on citizens' participation. Hence, education for citizenship is uniformly considered as a major mission of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Justice
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Al-Saedi, A.; Bell, J.; Boorman, A.; Cameron, E.; Castleman, Z.; Flanagan, C.; Fraser, C.; Pearson, J.; Philp, A.; Robinson, K.; Silva, F.; Taki, A.; Tubeileh, D.; Vosters, R.; Mulrooney, H. M. – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2019
Authentic learning opportunities replicating working environments will enhance learners' employability and intrinsic motivation. Within most undergraduate curricula, opportunities for students to experience hands-on learning opportunities which mimic public health practice are limited. A pilot university cook and eat programme (the Cook School)…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Education, Peer Teaching, Partnerships in Education
Such, Brenda Lee Ruei-Chi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Within the last 10 years, higher education has seen the accelerated development of blended learning (BL), active learning (AL), and STEM education. The presented mixed methods study examined a proposed framework that BL affordances enable or constrain AL, as a representation of constructivist learning theory, and that the relationship between BL…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Blended Learning, Academic Persistence, Affordances
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King, Alyson E.; McQuarrie, Fiona A. E.; Brigham, Susan M. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2021
In our research on university students from historically under-represented backgrounds who successfully graduate from their undergraduate degree program or are in their final year, we found that many who participated in out-of-class activities indicated those activities were important to their success. We take a strengths-based approach to focus…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Persistence, Student Participation, Extracurricular Activities
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to investigate how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are associated with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms 11 indicators of better outcomes linked to the ways in which teenagers explore, experience and think…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Employment
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to identify how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are linked with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms that teenage experiences of the workplace through part-time working and volunteering are routinely…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Work Attitudes, Value Judgment, Adolescents
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Bocsi, Veronika; Fényes, Hajnalka; Markos, Valéria – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2017
In this article, the motives for voluntary work and work values in higher education contexts are examined in a cross-border region in Central Eastern Europe. Our goal is to find out what kind of relationship exists between different types of volunteering and work values among young people. In the theoretical section, we deal with the definition of…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Volunteers, Foreign Countries, Community Services
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Briggs, Lynne; Fronek, Patricia – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
Supervised student-led health clinics provide students with opportunities to develop practice skills with "real" people by delivering clinical services to underserved communities. Clinics provide opportunities for interprofessional learning and the development of clinical, communication, leadership, and teamwork skills. A systematic…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Clinics, Clinical Experience, Disadvantaged
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Mack, Michelle C.; Allen, Gill – Cogent Education, 2018
Project Chameleon is a school-based educational programme relating to crime, UK law and social moral positioning. Qualitative data were collated from three focus groups with child participants and two focus groups with university psychology student volunteers. The data related directly to the individual experiences of child participants and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experience, Elementary School Students, College Students
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Lin, Chun-Wen – College Student Journal, 2017
Aristotle once said that moral deliberation is supposed to find reasons, which may lead us to renounce spurious moral beliefs in pursuit of authentic goodness. The aim of this study was to construct a theoretical model, based on Aristotle's deliberation theory framework, representing college students' attitudes toward volunteering in nursing…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, College Students, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
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Doerr, Neriko Musha – Education and Society, 2016
How do we make of students learning something their teacher did not intend to teach? Researchers suggest it unnecessary extras, learning of implicit rules of the game, or keys to understand power structure. Based on an ethnographic fieldwork of a college alternative break trip to learn about poverty through simulation, this article suggests such…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ethnography, Poverty, Simulation
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Hay, John; Laguerre, Fabrice; Moore, Eric; Reedy, Katherine; Rose, Scott; Vickers, Jerome – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2015
The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) encourages doctoral candidates volunteering in order to give back and continue their relationship with the university after completing their dissertation. Volunteering can take on many forms, from acting as doctoral assistants to performing the role of critical friends on future doctoral…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Volunteers
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