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Title: | Transformation and development of university students through service-learning : a corporate-community-university partnership initiative in Hong Kong (Project WeCan) | Authors: | Shek, DTL Ma, CMS Yang, Z |
Issue Date: | Nov-2020 | Source: | Applied research in quality of life, Nov. 2020, v. 15, no. 5, p. 1375-1393 | Abstract: | As service-learning is still at its infancy in Hong Kong, there is a need to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of service-learning projects and bring important implications to the curriculum. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of a service-learning initiative that involved a corporate-community-university partnership (Project WeCan). In total, 138 university students (service providers) were included. We evaluated the project through three mechanisms. First, pretest and posttest data showed that students changed in the positive direction in terms of the intended learning outcomes in the civic engagement, cognitive and academic domains. Second, students showed positive changes in terms of psychosocial competencies and self-leadership. Finally, qualitative analyses of the reflective journals showed that students demonstrated positive changes in the areas of social responsibility, interpersonal competence, and intrapersonal skills. The findings underscore the utility of service-learning as an effective pedagogy to promote holistic development of university students. | Keywords: | Service-learning Positive youth development Corporate-community-university collaboration Multiple evaluative strategies |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Applied research in quality of life | ISSN: | 1871-2584 | EISSN: | 1871-2576 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11482-019-09738-9 | Rights: | © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The following publication Shek, D.T.L., Ma, C.M.S. & Yang, Z. Transformation and Development of University Students through Service-Learning: a Corporate-Community-University Partnership Initiative in Hong Kong (Project WeCan). Applied Research Quality Life 15, 1375–1393 (2020) is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11482-019-09738-9. |
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