Education + Training: Volume 53 Issue 2/3

Student‐community engagement and the changing role and context of higher education

Juliet Millican, Tom Bourner

The purpose of this Editorial is to introduce key themes in the area of student‐community engagement (SCE) and the papers included in this special issue.

Student‐community engagement and the development of graduate attributes

Kristine Mason O'Connor, Kenny Lynch, David Owen

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of student‐community engagement in ensuring relevance of higher education to civil, social, economic and moral issues. It reviews…

Dublin Institute of Technology's Programme for Students Learning With Communities: A critical account of practice

Elena Gamble, Catherine Bates

This paper aims to focus on the process of critically evaluating Dublin Institute of Technology's Programme for Students Learning With Communities after its first year of…

Both‐and, not either‐or: knowledge and service‐learning

Maureen Casile, Kristine F. Hoover, Deborah A. O'Neil

The purpose of this paper is to expand the understanding of outcomes of service‐learning/community engagement. The current study explored the efficacy of service‐learning as a…

University‐community engagement: a case study using popular theatre

Robert Feagan, Katherine Rossiter

The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of popular theatre (PT) as a pedagogical tool around which a community service learning (CSL) senior undergraduate course was…

Assessing learning from a student community engagement project

Jessica Jung

The purpose of this paper is to chart developments in a community engagement scheme run by two Universities in the North East, offering students academic credit in return for work…

Civic education in research universities: leaders or followers?

Elizabeth L. Hollander

Research‐intensive universities have special challenges in providing their students with civic education, particularly education that is rooted in the curriculum. Their efforts…

Student volunteering in England: a critical moment

Jamie Darwen, Andrea Grace Rannard

The purpose of this paper is to present the current state of student volunteering in English universities, and show how it contributes to some of the core activities of higher…

Transformative learning through service‐learning: no passport required

Phil Bamber, Les Hankin

This paper aims to explore student learning within a local service‐learning initiative that forms part of an Education Studies undergraduate programme at an HEI in the UK with a…

Service‐learning and the development of empathy in US college students

Judy C. Wilson

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the influence of a service‐learning experience on the personal development of college students, particularly focusing on the expression of…

Now for the science bit: implementing community‐based learning in chemistry

Claire McDonnell, Patricia Ennis, Leslie Shoemaker

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of student learning from community engagement by critically assessing the implementation of this pedagogical…

Student internships bridge research to real world problems

Michaela Hynie, Krista Jensen, Michael Johnny, Jane Wedlock, David Phipps

The aim of this paper is to report on student perceptions of 24 graduate student internships funded in 2007‐2008 by York University's Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit. These…