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- Title
Attitudinal Shifts in Student Perceptions of Academic Service- Learning: An Exploratory Study of a General Education Humanities Course.
- Authors
Lawson, Kimberli M.
- Abstract
My purpose in employing a community-engaged project for the General Education Humanities course is to dispel what I consider to be a false, limiting belief that art remains largely unconnected to real life. To facilitate the exploration of the idea that we interact with, and react to, art frequently throughout our day-to-day experiences, I pose the following research question to students: "How can art transform a local community space?" The student teams research the needs of an assigned demographic, examine the uses of the facility they are assigned, and find out about how different kinds of art might fill different emotional, social, or intellectual needs. They also study articles and interviews that assert the transformative power of art. They then write a research-based proposal to the facility that synthesizes all of their findings and makes specific suggestions to the facility. They also present to a panel and prepare a conference poster. I track quantifiable shifts in students' belief systems using 12 questions in six categories from the beginning of the semester to the end of their project through the collection of survey data. In 11 out of 12 categories, student perceptions of the benefits of the academic service- learning project to them became more positive.
- Subjects
SERVICE learning; HUMANITIES; SCHOOL involvement; GENERAL education; ENGAGED campuses
- Publication
Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, 2015, Vol 92, p191
- Publication type
Article