The Influence of Service Learning on Students' Personal and Social Development

An explanatory methods design was used to evaluate the influence of a service learning course on learning, personal, and social outcomes for service learning (n = 142) students. These students showed improvements in diversity and political awareness, community self-efficacy, and civic engagement sco...

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Published inCollege teaching Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 307 - 319
Main Authors Simons, Lori, Cleary, Beverly
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Heldref 01.09.2006
Heldref Publications
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Academic learning
Child development
Children
Citizen participation
Communities
Community service
Course Content
Cultural diversity
Data collection
Educational activities
Experiential Learning
Learner engagement
Longitudinal Studies
Meta Analysis
Methods
Outcomes of education
personal and social outcomes
Personal development
Politics
Preferences
R&D
Research & development
Service learning
social-emotional learning
Student diversity
Students
Studies
Undergraduate Students
United States > US
Michigan
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Summary:An explanatory methods design was used to evaluate the influence of a service learning course on learning, personal, and social outcomes for service learning (n = 142) students. These students showed improvements in diversity and political awareness, community self-efficacy, and civic engagement scores from the beginning to the end of the semester. In addition, the students' academic learning, personal and interpersonal development, and community engagement were detected as the major benefits from engaging in service learning. The findings of this study suggest that service learning contributes to students' academic learning and personal and social development through social-emotional processes.
ISSN:8756-7555
1930-8299
DOI:10.3200/CTCH.54.4.307-319