9. Reducing the Boundaries Between the Community and the Academy With a Full-Time Service Learning Capstone

9. Reducing the Boundaries Between the Community and the Academy With a Full-Time Service Learning Capstone

The purpose of this paper is to share my experiences as the instructor of a full-time, single semester, service-learning capstone course. In this innovative course students already volunteering in the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization work in teams to identify community needs and addr...

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Main Author: Andy Ballard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2013-06-01
Series:Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching
Online Access:https://celt.uwindsor.ca/index.php/CELT/article/view/3729
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