Ethical Issues in Service Learning: The Experience and the Experiment Introduction Service Learning has emerged as an important pedagogical technique in higher educational institutions worldwide and naturally has given rise to certain critical questions regarding its practice. The American College in the past four years has successfully implemented Service Learning Program (hereafter SLP) and institutionalized it. The accumulated experience has brought certain ethical issues to the
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Service-learning i.e. community service with organizations or out-class opportunities for communicational learning. First‚ it provides students an eye-open experience by “pushing” students out of their comfort zones to view the outside world. Second‚ service-learning helps students gain communication skills because they have to talk and interact with different group of people. Not only to view and to talk‚ but also to think. Students make connections between what we learn from the book and what we
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Honestly. What is the point of this? I have so many things that I’d rather be doing in my spare time than going out in the public to do some stupid service learning project. Those were the exact words that flowed through my head while the assignment was being explained to the class. Even though I was not excited about this project in the least bit‚ I knew that it had to be done and it had to be done right. I was really hoping to work with kids and bring in a cool black light to show them some germs
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One of my service learning projects was based on my bill to the president. I addressed an issue that is contradicting our environment from the past years and is still occurring today. My bill topic was about racial profiling towards black people from the police and how it’s affecting our country. I wrote my bill to the president to show him what others think about the conflict that is occurring; And what laws we want the government to change to make this country a safer place for every race. I felt
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As many schools are encouraging students to become involved in service-learning projects‚ our school is reaching out to the community for suggestions for projects to do. Service- learning projects give students a chance to help their community. They also learn valuable life skills and get the chance to make a difference. One project that would allow students to gain this new knowledge would be building a house or repairing homes for people in need in the community. If the school paired up with
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This paper reports a Service Learning Project that was completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Lifecycle Nutrition Course. First the author will give brief information about their victim. Next the author will explain the results of the victim’s three-day meal assessment. Finally‚ the author closes with a brief summary and synthesis.” 3. Body Paragraph 1 – What‚ when‚ where. My service-learning project was constructed around a 27-year-old male. In the initial consultation he claimed
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Service Learning Experience Reflection Christians Reaching Out for Social Services (CROSS) is a nonprofit organization supporting the communities of Maple Grove‚ Rodgers‚ Osseo‚ Champlin (west)‚ Corcoran‚ and Dayton‚ Minnesota. Since CROSS was established in 1977‚ they have been supporting low income families and individuals by providing grocery service‚ meal delivery‚ clothing‚ and social services support (“Welcome to CROSS‚” 2017). Over the period of three days‚ February 8th‚ 10th‚ and 12th‚ I
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processes. Conceptual and decision skills are beneficial to identify and resolve problems that may arise. Possessing interpersonal and communication skills give the manager the ability to motivate‚ lead‚ and communicate effectively with his or her team of employees. As opposed to leaders who stimulate high performance efforts form employees. A leader is someone who influences others to attain a goal by implementing strategies to produce results. Leaders tend to challenge conventional management
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Learning Team B Weekly Reflection (week 5) LAW/421 20 August 2013 Learning Team B Weekly Reflection (week 5) Lately‚ learning team members conferred the ins-and-outs of contracts‚ most notably business contracts. Team B discussions [might have] exposed testimonies indicating members direct/indirect association to contracts. Maybe a favorite basketball player just signed one. There might have been member(s) with breaching practice. Still just‚ maybe a Team B member even signed
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My service learning project was Carestream Charity‚ this non profit organization group brings together hairstylist and volunteers throughout the Vegas Valley and provides many different services to the less fortunate. (February 21 2017 total of 8 hours) One of the events I was able to attend was haircuts for K-12 age students that are either homeless or are living in a shelter. This event provided haircut for over 500 students in the Valley that is a massive amount of children that are either living
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