Service-Learning: A Venue for Enhancing Pre-ServiceEducators’ Knowledge Base for Teaching

  • Meaney K
  • Griffin K
  • Bohler H
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Abstract

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research examining the impact of service-learning on student’s personal qualities has shown positive results. Findings indicate that students participating in high quality service-learning programs show increases in their perceptions of self-efficacy, civic responsibility, social justice, and diversity awareness. Less information regarding the effect of participation in service-learning on student’s intellectual and knowledge outcomes is known. This case study examined the influence of participation in a service-learning program on pre-service educators’ knowledge base for teaching. Participants included 31 undergraduate physical education majors enrolled in a Motor Skill Development for Children course at a large state university in the southwestern United States. Findings from multiple data sources (i.e., journals, interviews, and observations of instruction) revealed that pre-service educators participating in a service-learning program enhanced their pedagogical content knowledge. Teacher education programs should consider implementing service-learning programs within the curriculum to benefit pre- service educators’ knowledge base for teaching.

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Meaney, K., Griffin, K., & Bohler, H. (2009). Service-Learning: A Venue for Enhancing Pre-ServiceEducators’ Knowledge Base for Teaching. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2009.030221

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