Journal article
Community Service Learning: A First Year Transition Tool for Teacher Education
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, Vol.35(3), pp.59-74
2010
Abstract
Community Service Learning (CSL) as a first year transition strategy into teacher education is a new concept not previously identified in either the CSL literature or the First Year in Higher Education literature. This paper reports on a study that investigated how first year preservice teachers experienced CSL and how this impacted on their current and future professional sense of self. The study showed that the students benefitted professionally, personally, and academically from undertaking community service. We argue that given these results and the similar framing discourses of both CSL and first year transition into Higher Education, that CSL can be readily reconceptualised as a transition strategy for first year in teacher education.
Details
- Title
- Community Service Learning: A First Year Transition Tool for Teacher Education
- Authors
- Sharn Donnison (Author) - La Trobe UniversityD Itter (Author) - La Trobe University
- Publication details
- Australian Journal of Teacher Education, Vol.35(3), pp.59-74
- Publisher
- Edith Cowan University
- Date published
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.14221/ajte.2010v35n3.5
- ISSN
- 1835-517X
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2010 The Author/s. Reproduced with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450245802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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