Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and Outcomes
Student reflections on course-based civic engagement provide insights into their experiences and can be a useful foundation for crafting assignments to meet student needs. Rich student narratives emerged from of an immersive semester-long community-based project in a public advocacy course. Although...
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Georgia Southern University
2014-01-01
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| description | Student reflections on course-based civic engagement provide insights into their experiences and can be a useful foundation for crafting assignments to meet student needs. Rich student narratives emerged from of an immersive semester-long community-based project in a public advocacy course. Although a number of interesting findings, including insights about student learning, personal growth, and empowerment, are embedded in the reflections, this paper focuses on how students described civic engagement, both their experiences and general conclusions about the nature of productive community involvement. Students identified five factors—research, collaboration, effort, passion, and responsibility—as useful and imperative for civic engagement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e05fe0b524c34422b6edf415f14fc1d02022-12-21T18:14:45ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1931-47442014-01-018110.20429/ijsotl.2014.080109Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and OutcomesLeila BrammerAnna MortonStudent reflections on course-based civic engagement provide insights into their experiences and can be a useful foundation for crafting assignments to meet student needs. Rich student narratives emerged from of an immersive semester-long community-based project in a public advocacy course. Although a number of interesting findings, including insights about student learning, personal growth, and empowerment, are embedded in the reflections, this paper focuses on how students described civic engagement, both their experiences and general conclusions about the nature of productive community involvement. Students identified five factors—research, collaboration, effort, passion, and responsibility—as useful and imperative for civic engagement.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol8/iss1/9civic engagementstudent perceptionssocial responsibilitypublic discourse |
| spellingShingle | Leila Brammer Anna Morton Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and Outcomes International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning civic engagement student perceptions social responsibility public discourse |
| title | Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and Outcomes |
| title_full | Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and Outcomes |
| title_fullStr | Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and Outcomes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and Outcomes |
| title_short | Course-based Civic Engagement: Understanding Student Perspectives and Outcomes |
| title_sort | course based civic engagement understanding student perspectives and outcomes |
| topic | civic engagement student perceptions social responsibility public discourse |
| url | https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol8/iss1/9 |
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