Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education
First Page
30
Last Page
46
Abstract
Transformative learning is the most desired core outcome in adult education. The qualitative study examined critical reflections for professional transformation related to development and implementation of service-learning courses or projects from four university faculty members during enrollment in a Service-Learning Faculty Fellows program and post-servicelearning implementation. Reflective questions related to faculty perceptions of student learning, service-learning as pedagogy, and their own learning— transformation of, in, and by learning, respectively. Content analyses of faculty reflections resulted in three categories of transformation based on three preservice-learning and three post-servicelearning descriptive themes: (1) transformation of student learning from anticipatory integration to conflicts between expectation and reality; (2) transformation in learning about servicelearning transitioned from constant search for clarification to searching for relevance in service-learning; and (3) transformation by learning about themselves as educators was described initially as a move from “me” to “we” and afterward to a deconstruction of their professional selves. Critical selfreflection and mentoring throughout the Faculty Fellows program and after at least one service-learning course or project are important elements toward the success of faculty who choose to engage in service-learning.
Disciplines
Civil and Environmental Engineering | Civil Engineering | Engineering
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Cazzell, Mary; Theriot, Shirley; Blakey, Joan M.; and Sattler, Melanie L., "Transformation of, in, and by Learning in a Service-Learning Faculty Fellows Program" (2014). Civil Engineering Faculty Publications. 27.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/civilengineering_facpubs/27