Evaluating Civic Learning in Service-Learning Programs: Creation and Validation of the Public Affairs Scale–Short Survey (PAS-SS)

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Levesque-Bristol ◽  
K. Andrew R. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
Learning Programs

Cerebral Palsy—Its Scope and Management

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 973-973
Author(s):  
MEYER A. PERLSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Public ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
The Subject

This pamphlet upholds the tradition of excellent, small monographs on specialized subjects, for which the Public Affairs Pamphlets have become known. In abbreviated form, this gives a short survey of the nature, incidence, and clinical characteristics of the various types of cerebral palsy. Résumé of the purposes of therapy and of the methods of therapy are given. An excellent section deals with the community and social aspects of the problem. A list of resources is given for those interested in either learning more about the subject or seeking places where aid for a cerebral-palsied child may be obtained.

Outcomes of an International Audiology Service-Learning Study-Abroad Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lata A. Krishnan ◽  
K. Andrew R. Richards ◽  
Jennifer M. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Civic Learning ◽  
Study Abroad Program

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate students' academic and civic learning, with particular interest in cultural competence, gained through participation in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in Zambia study-abroad program. Method Twelve female students participated in the program. Quantitative data collected included pre- and postprogram administration of the Public Affairs Scale (Levesque-Bristol & Cornelius-White, 2012) to measure changes in participants' civic learning. Qualitative data included journals, end-of-program reflection papers, videos, and researcher field notes. Feedback was also obtained from community-partner organizations via a questionnaire and rating scale. Results Comparison of the pre- and postprogram Public Affairs Scale data showed a significant increase in cultural competence and a marginal increase in community engagement at the conclusion of the program. Qualitative data showed that participants' cultural awareness was increased, they benefited from hands-on learning, and they experienced a variety of emotions and emotional and personal growth. Conclusions Results show that a short-term study-abroad program with a service-learning component can be a mechanism for students to enhance academic and civic learning, specifically cultural competence and clinical skills. Sustainability of programs is a challenge that needs to be addressed.

Civic Responsibility and Global Health Care: Audiology Service Learning in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1075-1084
Author(s):  
Mershen Pillay ◽  
Ishara Ramkissoon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
World Health ◽  
Civic Responsibility ◽  
Community Partner ◽  
Learning Programs

Purpose Many health professions engage service learning via international humanitarian health care or study abroad programs toward an improved sense of civic responsibility, an aspect that has been inadequately analyzed in hearing health care. The purpose of this study is to evaluate how the curriculum of an international humanitarian health care program in South Africa influenced U.S. graduate students' civic responsibility and their educators' perspectives on audiology study abroad service learning programs. Method Participants ( n = 14) in this study abroad program included seven female graduate audiology students, five community partners, and two educators. Quantitative data were derived from pre- and postprogram administration of the Public Affairs Scale (Levesque-Bristol & Cornelius-White, 2012). Qualitative data sources included student journals, student exit interview, educator field notes and discussions, and responses to the community partner evaluation survey completed by host site personnel. Results A comparison of pre- and postprogram Public Affairs Scale ratings revealed that students demonstrated a significant increase in community engagement, cultural competence, and ethical leadership. Qualitative data revealed themes referenced to practitioners, clients, and context. Further thematic analysis identified three key results including foregrounding health as a development of people, educators and students as critically oriented public intellectuals, and global dialogue for pedagogic (audiology) justice. Discussion and Conclusion Carefully designed study abroad curricular contributed to audiology graduate students' increased service learning, civic responsibility, and civic engagement. Quantitative and qualitative analyses revealed that student service learning experiences were mediated by resources and people in the local context. This study abroad curriculum facilitated educators' thinking regarding the placement of audiology health services and audiology educational models in a globalized world. Health professional pedagogic considerations should be designed for humanitarian health care so that service learning focuses the production of critically oriented practitioners who are competent at enacting practices in global service learning programs.

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

1. The Neoliberal Logic of Service-Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Snider Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Community Based ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

<?page nr="1"?>Abstract This article investigates the ways in which service-learning manifests within our neoliberal clime, suggesting that service-learning amounts to a foil for neoliberalism, allowing neoliberal political and economic changes while masking their damaging effects. Neoliberalism shifts the relationship between the public and the private, structures higher education, and promotes a façade of community-based university partnerships while facilitating a pervasive regime of control. This article demonstrates that service-learning amounts to an enigma of neoliberalism, making possible the privatization of the public and the individualizing of social problems while masking evidence of market-based societal control. Neoliberal service-learning distances service from teaching and learning, allows market forces to shape university-community partnerships, and privatizes the public through dispossession by accumulation.

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