Service-Learning Recentering the Deaf Community in Interpreter Education

• Published in: American annals of the deaf (Washington, D.C. 1886) Vol. 154; no. 3; pp. 277 - 283
• Main Authors: Shaw, Sherry, Roberson, Len
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Gallaudet University Press 01.07.2009
• Subjects: Accreditation; American Sign Language; Children; Collaboration; Collaborative learning; Colleges & universities; Communication; Communities; Community education; Community Needs; Curriculum; Curriculum Development; Data collection; Deaf culture; Deaf education; Deaf Interpreting; Deafness; Deafness - rehabilitation; Education; Education, Graduate - organization & administration; Education, Graduate - standards; Educational activities; Educational Change; English language; Experiential learning; FEATURE ARTICLES; Florida; Health Education - organization & administration; Health Education - standards; Human subjects; Humans; Language Laboratories; Learning Activities; Learning Processes; Learning Theories; Lifelong Learning; Linguistics; Neighborhood; Partnerships in Education; Program Descriptions; Program Implementation; Service Learning; Sign Language; Strategic Planning; Students; Teaching Methods; Transformative Learning; Florida; New York; United States > US; San Francisco California

THE CONCEPT of recentering the Deaf community in interpreter education stems from the recent discussion of program evolution away from stakeholders and into academia highlighted by Monikowski and Peterson (2005). The University of North Florida, in the initial stages of developing a B.S. degree and...