A5081990149- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Organizational Change and Leadership
- Community Health and Development
- Organizational Learning and Leadership
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Management and Organizational Studies
University of Connecticut
2021-2024
American Society For Engineering Education
2024
Abstract Community-University Relationships in Environmental Engineering Service-Learning Courses: Social Network Vectors and Modalities of Communication Purpose The service-learning program, Project Local (anonym), seeks to benefit communities educate students engineering STEM courses three areas: brownfields, stormwater, climate change [9]. People local municipal government known as "community liaisons" connect universities communities. Emerging from the field social capital, 'social...
Background: Environmental sustainability-focused service learning programs can aid communities in addressing environmental problems and provide students with hands-on training. Understanding the implementation of such inform research application. Purpose: We investigate an program at a large New England public university. Our inquiry sought to better understand epistemic by question: What conditions, including contextual factors resources (funding, university context) people (i.e. faculty,...
High Leverage Practices (HLPs), as a core set of teaching practices, represent important instructional priorities and provide guidance for students' engagement in practice-based instruction. The goals this research were to 1) understand how an epistemic community (the people designing leading courses programs) viewed the HLP creation process, 2) processes through which actually engaged refinement HLPS, 3) identify present HLPs created. Data collected across 2019-2020 academic year included...
There has been little scholarship about the use of instructional practices in undergraduate environmental service-learning courses. In this study, we examined implementation high leverage (HLPs) courses (i.e. E-Corps). These HLPs included: eliciting initial ideas, informing approaches to problems, and developing informed solutions. We employed interviews observations gather data investigate characteristics instructors' over course three academic years, from Fall 2019 Spring 2022. First,...