LibGuides: Service Learning: Journal Articles

Sample of service learning articles available on our databases

Bennett, D., Sunderland, N., Bartleet, B., & Power, A. (2016). Implementing and Sustaining Higher Education Service-Learning Initiatives. Journal Of Experiential Education, 39(2), 145-163. doi:10.1177/1053825916629987 The article explores the realities of service-learning initiatives that exist at the edge of institutional funding and rely on the commitment of key individuals. The research revises Young et al.’s four tactics and adds the fifth tactic of organizational commitment, which emerged as a distinct strategy used to prompt new commitment, enact existing commitment, and extend limited commitment at the organizational level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Mitchell, T. D. (2015). Using a Critical Service-Learning Approach to Facilitate Civic Identity Development. Theory Into Practice, 54(1), 20-28. doi:10.1080/00405841.2015.977657 This article highlights elements of civic engagement programs that have the rich potential to facilitate civic identity development. Focusing on research with alumni, the study examines 3 civic engagement programs, the approaches of which are guided by critical service-learning. It explores elements of the experiences that alumni name as influential to their learning, development, and present commitments to understand the ways that civic engagement programs based in a critical service-learning approach can encourage them to develop commitments to active citizenship as exemplified by Knefelkamp's (2008) vision of a mature sense of civic identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Sallnow, L., Richardson, H., Murray, S. A., & Kellehear, A. (2016). The impact of a new public health approach to end-of-life care: A systematic review. Palliative Medicine, 30(3), 200-211. Conclusion: Evidence exists for the impact of community engagement in end-of-life care. Impact assessment should be an integral part of future initiatives and policy makers should recognise that these approaches can influence complex issues such as carer support, community capacity, wellbeing and social isolation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]