Student Reflections on Service Learning: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Lessons

Authors

  • Maria Lena Claver California State University, Long Beach
  • Lisa Lares California State University, Long Beach

Abstract

Service-learning is an educational experience that allows students meaningful interaction with older adults. Students in a gerontology course completed service-learning and recorded their experiences in weekly journals. This study explored student-reported reflections, which indicated cognitive, affective and behavioral lessons. Future research should include the perspectives of faculty members, agencies and older adults, long-term influences of service, and approaches to facilitating service learning for hybrid and online courses.

Author Biographies

Maria Lena Claver, California State University, Long Beach

Maria Claver, PhD, MSW, CPG is an Associate Professor of Gerontology in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at California State University, Long Beach

Lisa Lares, California State University, Long Beach

Lisa Lares, MSG, is a lecturer in the Gerontology Program and in the Human Development Program at California State University, Long Beach. She also is a lecturer at Loma Linda University in a dual master program teaching MSW and MSG students. She has implemented service learning in all her curriculum and will use it as her key focus in her dissertation for her PhD in Social Policy and Social Research. California State University, Long Beach, Gerontology/Human Development Program, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach CA 90840. lisa.lares@csulb.edu

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Published

12/08/2015

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Research and Theory

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