Nel Noddings’ethics of care is an important lineage of Western moral education thought,which contains deep humanistic values.Service-learning advocates the equal importance of service and learning,and emphasizes more...Nel Noddings’ethics of care is an important lineage of Western moral education thought,which contains deep humanistic values.Service-learning advocates the equal importance of service and learning,and emphasizes more on the discovery of educational connotations in practice.Based on the social background of aging,this paper takes the“Care for the Elderly”service-learning program as an example,attempts to take the care ethics as the entry point,adopts interviews,questionnaires,and other research methods,and opens-up the service-learning practice path under the threshold of Nel Noddings’care education theory.展开更多
In 2015,a university in rural Maryland offered an undergraduate service-learning leadership course,which collaborated with a service-learning community of practice.This interdisciplinary leadership course initiated an...In 2015,a university in rural Maryland offered an undergraduate service-learning leadership course,which collaborated with a service-learning community of practice.This interdisciplinary leadership course initiated and sustained personal and critical reflection and social interactions by integrating Computer-Medicated Communication(CMC)technology through Blackboard to provide support to students as they interpreted their service experiences.The design of this study was to describe the perceptions of the service-learning students’use of CMC technology to reflect on their service experience and social interactions within the service-learning community.In this descriptive case study,the in-depth content analyses of collected data from private journals and public discussions in Blackboard led to the distribution of a questionnaire to all participants and the execution of interviews regarding the participants’lived experiences.Once the participants responded,the researcher transcribed and assessed the results,coded emerging themes,and analyzed the trends.The triangulation of sources maintained the reliability of the findings,which demonstrated increased student engagement as result of social interactions and reflection in Blackboard.As the participants shared their lived experiences,they predominantly reflected on their personal growth and development,a strong community of practice,the value of relationships,and how technology enhanced their communication.展开更多
文摘Nel Noddings’ethics of care is an important lineage of Western moral education thought,which contains deep humanistic values.Service-learning advocates the equal importance of service and learning,and emphasizes more on the discovery of educational connotations in practice.Based on the social background of aging,this paper takes the“Care for the Elderly”service-learning program as an example,attempts to take the care ethics as the entry point,adopts interviews,questionnaires,and other research methods,and opens-up the service-learning practice path under the threshold of Nel Noddings’care education theory.
文摘In 2015,a university in rural Maryland offered an undergraduate service-learning leadership course,which collaborated with a service-learning community of practice.This interdisciplinary leadership course initiated and sustained personal and critical reflection and social interactions by integrating Computer-Medicated Communication(CMC)technology through Blackboard to provide support to students as they interpreted their service experiences.The design of this study was to describe the perceptions of the service-learning students’use of CMC technology to reflect on their service experience and social interactions within the service-learning community.In this descriptive case study,the in-depth content analyses of collected data from private journals and public discussions in Blackboard led to the distribution of a questionnaire to all participants and the execution of interviews regarding the participants’lived experiences.Once the participants responded,the researcher transcribed and assessed the results,coded emerging themes,and analyzed the trends.The triangulation of sources maintained the reliability of the findings,which demonstrated increased student engagement as result of social interactions and reflection in Blackboard.As the participants shared their lived experiences,they predominantly reflected on their personal growth and development,a strong community of practice,the value of relationships,and how technology enhanced their communication.
