Overview
- Is the first to cover professional, institutional, and community capacity building strategies
- Explores a diversity of methods to enhance capacity for various stakeholders in service-learning
- Brings together a group of experienced scholars and practitioners to share their experiences
Part of the book series: Quality of Life in Asia (QLAS, volume 14)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Service-Learning
- Civic Engagement
- Professional Development in Service-Learning
- Institutional Capacity Building
- Action Research
- Community Impact
- Case Studies in Service-Learning
- Student engagement
- Service-Learning Assessment
- Best practices in service-learning
- Youth leadership development
- Promotion of well-being
About this book
This book provides an in-depth, multi-faceted look into capacity building for service-learning, using the case of the higher education landscape in Hong Kong. Service-learning has been proven to be an effective pedagogy for the holistic development of students, as well as promotion of their well-being. It also attempts to promote the well-being of the service recipients and the community. While service-learning is becoming increasingly popular in many higher educational institutions around the world, the learning gains that can be attained from service-learning are only as good as the learning experience allows, and poorly-developed or motivated service-learning may potentially do adverse harm to students and the community. This book reinforces the imperative to enhance the capacity of the institution, teachers, students and community partners by exploring a diverse range of methods for achieving capacity building among different stakeholders. Examples of the methods explored include formal course-based professional development, scale development, action research, and communities of practice. Furthermore, the book includes a series of detailed, qualitative case studies that are aimed at embodying good practice, unpacking “what matters” from service-learning. Aa a useful resource for scholars and educators who are passionate about holistic youth leadership development, this book is also relevant to researchers in the intersection between well-being and higher education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel Shek is Associate Vice President (Undergraduate Program), Chair Professor of Applied Social Sciences, and Li and Fung Professor in Service Leadership Education at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also Changjiang Scholar (Chiangjiang Chair Professor), Ministry of Education, P.R.C. He has developed two positive youth development (PYD) programs in Hong Kong (P.A.T.H.S. Project) and mainland China (Tin Ka Ping P.A.T.H.S. Project) and published extensively in PYD. He has also conducted many evaluation studies in service-learning. He has to date received two Gold Awards, one Silver Award and two Bronze Awards in the QS Reimagine Education Awards (which are commonly regarded as Oscars in Education) and the UGC Teaching Award in 2018 for his subjects on leadership development and service-learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Service-Learning Capacity Enhancement in Hong Kong Higher Education
Editors: Grace Ngai, Daniel T.L. Shek
Series Title: Quality of Life in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2437-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2436-1Published: 19 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2439-2Published: 20 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2437-8Published: 17 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2211-0550
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0569
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 325
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Employee Health and Wellbeing, Quality of Life Research, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Education, general