Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics
Although the value of service-learning opportunities has long been aligned to student engagement, global citizenship, and employability, the rhetoric can be far removed from the reality of coordinating such activities within higher education. This article stems from arts-based service-learning initi...
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| description | Although the value of service-learning opportunities has long been aligned to student engagement, global citizenship, and employability, the rhetoric can be far removed from the reality of coordinating such activities within higher education. This article stems from arts-based service-learning initiatives with Indigenous communities in Australia. It highlights challenges encountered by the projects and the tactics used to overcome them. These are considered in relation to Young, Shinnar, Ackerman, Carruthers, and Young’s four tactics for starting and sustaining service-learning initiatives. The article explores the realities of service-learning initiatives that exist at the edge of institutional funding and rely on the commitment of key individuals. The research revises Young et al.’s four tactics and adds the fifth tactic of organizational commitment, which emerged as a distinct strategy used to prompt new commitment, enact existing commitment, and extend limited commitment at the organizational level. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-470112017-09-13T14:28:07Z Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics Bennett, Dawn Sunderland, N. Bartleet, B. Power, A. Although the value of service-learning opportunities has long been aligned to student engagement, global citizenship, and employability, the rhetoric can be far removed from the reality of coordinating such activities within higher education. This article stems from arts-based service-learning initiatives with Indigenous communities in Australia. It highlights challenges encountered by the projects and the tactics used to overcome them. These are considered in relation to Young, Shinnar, Ackerman, Carruthers, and Young’s four tactics for starting and sustaining service-learning initiatives. The article explores the realities of service-learning initiatives that exist at the edge of institutional funding and rely on the commitment of key individuals. The research revises Young et al.’s four tactics and adds the fifth tactic of organizational commitment, which emerged as a distinct strategy used to prompt new commitment, enact existing commitment, and extend limited commitment at the organizational level. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47011 10.1177/1053825916629987 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Bennett, Dawn Sunderland, N. Bartleet, B. Power, A. Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics |
| title | Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics |
| title_full | Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics |
| title_fullStr | Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics |
| title_short | Implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: Revisiting Young et al's organizational tactics |
| title_sort | implementing and sustaining higher education service-learning initiatives: revisiting young et al's organizational tactics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47011 |