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UCU 310: Community

service learning
Topic 6_Student Development in Service
Learning
1. Student development in community service learning?
Definition: -
• Refers to the growth, learning, and personal development that
students experience as a result of their engagement in service-based
educational experience.
• Student development in CSL occurs in stage/phases:
Phase 1: Exposure phase
Phase 2: Capacity building phase
Phase 3: Responsibility phase
2. Design phases of student development in service learning
Phase 1: Exposure Phase 2:Capacity Phase 3:
Building Responsbility
Goal of the phase -Introducing CSL concepts -practicing personal/profesional -Students have higher
-Skills development skills accountability
-Introduce academic reflection -progressing to higher levels of -There is skills materly
reflective thinking -There is critical reflection and
reflection

Instructors role -Facilatate student interactions -Provides the structure, select Suggest stratgies to empower
with partner; outline clear partners students. toinnovate and monitor
processes and expectations - progress

Level of responsbility -Participation -Students take more -There is full responsbility.


-empahasise skill building resposnsibility Student take charge of identifying
-students take more responsibility and managing some projects
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Extent of team work -Class project: guide student on a -Students foster their roles and Small group project-students
collabaorative project with each skills form team based projects to and
playing their role use previosly developed skills

Intensity/Duration -Create a clearly defined and -Course requires more time long-term commitment. Use of
time-limited CSL project period, and more attention previously acquired knwledge to
service learning project provide support in the long term

Community Contact Maintain your control over the -Students directly managed on -Students work on site with the
student site population serveed or general
3. Students benefits from Community Service learning
General aspects of students benefits from community service learning
• With CSL being an education approach that combines classroom and
real world context learnings, there are different dimensions of looking
at student development in service learning
• These includes:
 Overall/general benefits to the student and the community
 Specific academic discipline benefits to the student and the community
3. Students benefits from Community Service learning
General aspects of students benefits from community service learning
:
i. Personal growth
ii. Academic integration
iii. civic engagement
iv. Careers skills development
v. community engagement
vi. Institutional benefits
vii. Leadership and collaborations
viii.Social cultural awareness

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