Overview
- Examines service-learning in different Chinese communities
- Documents good practices and the implementation of service-learning
- Provides reflections on the role of service-learning and promotion of quality of life
Part of the book series: Quality of Life in Asia (QLAS, volume 12)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Service leadership
- Service-Learning for youth leadership
- Community engagement
- Youth development in Chinese societies
- Youth leadership in Chinese societies
- Promotion of quality of life
- Higher education in Service-Learning
- Civic engagement in youths
- Psychosocial skills of students
- Serivice-Learning movement in Chinese societies
About this book
This book examines service-learning – a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community. It describes selected service-learning projects in different areas by highlighting the subjects being offered, service site(s), completed service projects, evaluation findings and teachers’ reflections. Although service-learning has increased tremendously in the West, its development in different Chinese societies is still in its infancy. As such, this book provides valuable insights on the implementation and future directions of the service-learning movement in China by documenting lessons learned and sharing success stories. It also discusses related evaluation findings and impacts on students to show that service-learning can increase students’ empathy, social awareness, social responsibility and psychosocial skills and as a result can improve their quality of life. In addition, the book highlights how service-learning activities promote the well-being of the clients and communities being served. It also stimulates thinking and sharpens the thoughts of educators, administrators and those who wish to promote the quality of life of students and service recipients through service-learning.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Chan received his PhD from The University of Rochester, where he was a member of the Production Automation Project under Professor Herbert Voelcker. He then worked on a NURBS-based surface modeling system for industrial design for Neo-Visuals in Toronto. Subsequently he became a research officer for the National Research Council of Canada on computer-integrated manufacturing and represented Canada in the development of the international product data exchange standard, STEP. He joined the then Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1993. Dr. Chan is a firm believer of service learning. He has taken students to service projects in Hong Kong, Hubei and Gansu in mainland China, Cambodia, Myanmar and Rwanda. Together with Dr. Vincent Ng and Dr. Grace Ngai, he was given the Faculty of Engineering Award (Team) in Teaching in 2007. Together with several other colleagues, he was given the President’s Award (Team) in Services in 2008. He was appointed the founding head of the Office of Service-Learning in 2012.
Dr. Ngai received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. Her thesis supervisor was Professor David Yarowsky. Prior to that, she studied Engineering at Brown University, where she got her Sc.B. She also got her M.S.E. (Masters of Science in Engineering) at JHU along the way to getting her Ph.D. Dr. Ngai’s main research interest is in human-centered computing, including Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Affective Computing. Specifically, she is interested in how humans use computers, the interplay between culture and computing, the aspect of computing that interacts back at the human, and computing that interacts with the environment. Dr Ngai’s other research interests are in computational linguistics and statistical natural language processing. She is also very interested in computing education and educational technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Service-Learning for Youth Leadership
Book Subtitle: The Case of Hong Kong
Editors: Daniel T. L. Shek, Grace Ngai, Stephen C. F. Chan
Series Title: Quality of Life in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0448-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0447-7Published: 22 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4418-3Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0448-4Published: 13 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2211-0550
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0569
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 365
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Developmental Psychology, Youth Culture