Strategic International Service-Learning Partnership

Halimi, Shpresa; Kecskes, Kevin; Ingle, Marcus D.; Phuong, Phung Thuy

doi:10.4324/9781003443926-3

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“…However, academic publications are scarce. We found only one coauthored book chapter (Halimi et al, 2014) about an international service-learning partnership with Portland State University in Oregon and two other papers (Phung, 2007;Phung & Mol, 2004) about community engagement in the field of environmental studies. Other research publications have been posted on personal blogs and service-learning websites (Nguyễn et al, 2012), as a conference presentation (Nguyen, 2016), and in an institutional journal (Le, 2017).…”

Section: Palabras Clave: Aprendizaje-servicio Educación Superior Viet...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Growth of Service-Learning in Vietnamese Higher Education: Catalysts, Characteristics, and Challenges

Nguyen,

Milligan,

Sutherland

2023

International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement

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Service-learning has appeared in Vietnamese higher education in recent decades and is among a range of pedagogical approaches that have been imported from the West. This article discusses features of service-learning in Vietnamese universities that have emerged from the distinctive ideologies of the socialist-communist country, the influence of traditional values and religious beliefs, and the conditions of a postcolonial society and modern global economy. The interpretive multisite case study discussed in this article investigated local service-learning courses in four public universities in the Middle and South of Viet Nam. Four catalysts for the growth of service-learning in Viet Nam were identified: employability, responsibility to the community, enhancing young people’s moral values, and teachers as bottom-up initiators of service-learning initiatives. The lessons from this study hold potential to inform future policies, institutional organization, as well as pedagogies and strategies to improve and sustain service-learning practices in Vietnamese higher education and similar contexts.

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Section: Palabras Clave: Aprendizaje-servicio Educación Superior Viet...mentioning

confidence: 99%