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Contents
Welcome Message 1
Conference Committee 2
19 – 21 June Programme Schedule 3
Guest-of-Honour 6
Keynote Speaker 7
Plenary Speakers 8
Plenary Sessions 14
Market Place: Poster Session & Exhibition 15
Paper Presentations 23
Flipped Classroom Discussions 32
Social Film Documentary 32
Resource Sharing Workshops 33
Panel Discussions 35
Learning Journeys 36
Abstracts Overview: Concurrent Breakout Session 1 41
Abstracts Overview: Concurrent Breakout Session 2 47
Abstracts Overview: Concurrent Breakout Session 3 52
Abstracts Overview: Concurrent Breakout Session 4 56
Abstracts Overview: Concurrent Breakout Session 5 61
Abstracts Overview: Concurrent Breakout Session 6 65
Welcome Message
As the Secretariat of the Service-Learning Asia Network, it is SUSS’ honour to host this
year’s conference in Singapore; to provide an opportunity to learn from and to share the
pedagogy, practice and philosophy of Service-Learning with one another.
The increasing complexities of our world require a collaborative ecosystem for social
good that extends collectively through all levels of education, and all sectors of society.
SUSS believes in role-modelling social responsibility by serving as a community resource
on Service-Learning. It is thus our privilege to serve the Asia-Pacific Service-Learning
community by convening the community of thought-leaders, education and
community practitioners gathered here at this conference – more than 200 participants
representing 120 institutions from 20 countries. The 3-day conference features plenary
sessions, thematic paper, panel and poster presentations, resource sharing workshops,
learning journeys, film screenings and a community marketplace.
We are also exercising our social responsibility as the conference organisers and invite
you to join us in our various initiatives to manage our social footprint during this
conference.
Cynthia Chang
Conference Co-Chair, 7th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning
Head, Office of Service-Learning & Community Engagement
Centre for Experiential Learning, College of Lifelong & Experiential Learning
Singapore University of Social Sciences
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Conference Committee
Conference Advisor
Dr. Yap Meen Sheng
Conference Chair
Dr. Carol Ma Cynthia Christabelle Chang
Organising Committee
Yeo Lay Chia Ming Huei
Meirlin Gunawan Chloe Lee Zi Qi
Dr. Lee Wee Heong Teo Qi Yu
Chua Zhi Loon James Heather Lum Zee Mei
Othniel Ramachandran Azra Farzana
Abstract Reviewers
Dr. Dave E. Marcial Dr. Robert Shumer
Dr. Glenn A. Bowen Dr. Samuel Miriam
Dr. Janice Kam Foong Dr. Sonika Rajan
Dr. Joyce Tang-Wong Dr. Sophia Law Suk Mun
Dr. Juliana Anggono Prof. A. Lin Goodwin
Dr. Lee Wee Heong Prof. Andrew Furco
Dr. Lim Chee Han Prof. Daniel Shek
Dr. Lim Tai Wei Prof. Lilianny S. Arifin
Dr. Liu Ruo-Lan Prof. Roger Slee
Dr. McCarthy Florence E. Prof. Rong-Ji Pan
Dr. Michele A. Naranjo Prof. Timothy K. Stanton
Dr. Priscilla Pang Yen-Ning Prof. Vilma D’Rozario
Dr. Ribut Basuki
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Day 1 Programme
Speakers ANG Bee Lian | Singapore University of Social Sciences | Ministry of Social and Family Development
Maria Nieves TAPIA | CLAYSS, Latin American Center for Service-Learning
TAN Chi Chiu | Singapore Management University
YAP Su-Yin | Tan Chin Tuan Foundation
12:30 Lunch
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Day 2 Programme
12:30 Lunch
Geylang | Jurong East | Little India | SG Food Rescue | Shiok Kitchen | The Red Box | 93 Hindoo
Road
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Day 3 Programme
09:00 Plenary Session 2: Best Practices in Global Service-Learning and Its Impact on Global Social
Responsibility
(Refer to Page 14)
13:00 Lunch
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Guest-of-Honour
During this time as a back-bencher, he served as a member of the Government Parliamentary Committees for
Culture, Community and Youth, Home Affairs and Law and Social and Family Development. He was previously
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs.
Before entering politics, Mr. Lee served in the civil service in different capacities over the years – in the Supreme Court,
Attorney-General’s Chambers, Ministry of Health, and Ministry of Law. He was also in-house legal counsel in Temasek
Holdings.
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Keynote Speaker
She has worked extensively with the statutory and voluntary sectors in the children, youth, elder care, disability and
juvenile rehabilitation settings. She also has experience in a variety of policy, practice and management roles. She is
an instrumental figure in bringing statutory social work services to a higher level of professionalism with wider
community involvement. She was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2018.
She is a much sought after mentor and coach. Her insights into current social sector issues have been published into
two books titled “Letters to Social Work Students (Volume 1)” and “Social Insights (Volume 2)”. (Available at:
https://www.msf.gov.sg/odsw/social-insights/Pages/social-insights.aspx)
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Plenary Speakers
She is immediate past Vice President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) —Division K:
Teaching and Teacher Education, and the inaugural Dr. Ruth Wong Professor of Teacher Education at the National
Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore.
In 2015, Professor Goodwin was honoured as a Distinguished Researcher by AERA’s Special Interest Group: Research
on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans.
As Associate Vice President, he works to further the institutionalisation of all forms of community engagement across
the University’s research, teaching, and public service activities. His scholarly work examines the role of Service-
Learning in primary, secondary, and higher education systems in the U.S. and abroad.
From 1994-2007, he worked at the University of California-Berkeley as the founding director of the Service-Learning
Research and Development Center and faculty member in the Graduate School of Education.
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Plenary Speakers
He is also the Editor for Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability; serves on the Board of Advisors of
Skillseed (a Social Enterprise in Singapore); and as a Mentor of Asia-Pacific Innovation Academy (APIA).
He served as Regional Vice President, Asia, for Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), now known as ENACTUS; as Deputy
Executive Director at Singapore International Foundation (SIF); as Board member of the YMCA of Singapore; and as
Honorary Consultant to the China Population Welfare Foundation (CPWF).
His personal and professional mission is “To prepare the on-coming generation to be world ready”.
From 1997 to 2010 she organised and directed Argentina Ministry of Education's first National Service-Learning
programmes. She was a founding Board member of the International Association for Research on Service-learning
and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), and the Iberican-American Service-learning Network.
Professor Tapia has published numerous books and articles on Service-Learning and Higher Education Engagement
in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian. For the past 20 years she has offered hundreds of lectures, courses and
technical assistance around the world, and received several awards, like the Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award
(2001).
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Plenary Speakers
He has published more than 80 articles, book chapters, and a few books on a variety of educational issues.
Dr. Shumer was also the former Director of the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse at the University of
Minnesota and Director of Field Studies at UCLA in California. He has presented at more than 50 conferences and
sessions, been the president and board member of national and international educational organisations, and
received national awards for his work, and is considered a pioneer in the Service-Learning field.
He is a professor of education at the University of South Australia and he held the Chair of Inclusive Education at the
Institute of Education, University of London.
Professor Slee is a Visiting Professor in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His most recent book is
called: Inclusive Education Isn't Dead, It Just Smells Funny (Routledge). He was commissioned to write a 'think piece'
for UNESCO's 2020 Global Education Report. Prof. Slee has advised governments and education authorities around
the world.
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Plenary Speakers
He is also a board member of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Fund and of World Harvest Initiative, a
Christian international community development agency. He has just retired from the Singapore Medical Council after
18 years as an elected member, but remains as a Chairman of the SMC’s Medical Ethics Committee.
He is active in the youth development and community service scene in Singapore and has been deeply involved in
many overseas humanitarian, community aid and scientific expeditions for which he has received several
international awards. He was previously executive director of the Singapore International Foundation when it won
the Excellence for Singapore Award.
He has led numerous international disaster relief expeditions over the past three decades. He is an alumnus of
Harvard Business School through the Advanced Management Program (where he was elected Valedictorian) and he
is a Columbia certified professional Executive and Organisational Coach.
Dr. Tan Lai Yong enjoys long walks, reads a book a week and
goes to bed by 10 pm on most nights.
Foregoing a predictably comfortable life in Singapore, the medical doctor chose to serve the needy by living among
them in the Thai-speaking part of southern China. He joined a commune in Yunnan to train its minority ethnic
community in basic medical practice as Clinical Lecturer at Kunming Medical Centre. There, he helped treat the poor,
the orphaned, the disabled and the leprous. He extended his work beyond basic medical practice in the community
to forge links of friendship between Singapore and China with doctors and other professional groups, initiated a tree-
planting programme, and started a mobile library for children. This and more earned him the China National Day
Friendship Award in 2004, bestowed on foreign experts for outstanding contributions to the country’s economic and
social progress; and the Yunnan TV Good Citizen of Kunming Award in 2007.
He returned to Singapore in 2011, and after getting a scholarship for a year at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
Policy, he is now an NUS Resident Fellow focused on outreach and community engagement and continues to
volunteer.
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Plenary Speakers
He founded and directed Stanford University’s Overseas Studies Program, Cape Town focused on international
Service-Learning and research. He co-founded and directed the Community Health Concentration at Stanford
Medical School and served as Associate Director and Director of Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service.
In 2016, Dr. Stanton was Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor in International Studies at Northwestern University. He has
published numerous articles and two books in the United States, Europe, South Africa and Asia.
In the last few years, her research interest centred around the benefits of nature on well-being, the pedagogy of
nature education, and the psychological benefits of citizen conservation.
A nature educator and activist for the last 20 years, Vilma currently advocates for Singapore’s wildlife and wild
habitats through her volunteer work with NGOs, wildlife working groups, and government agencies.
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Plenary Speakers
She enjoys identifying solutions to issues, and has seeded impactful social service projects, that benefit the elderly,
children and youth, in the areas of befriending, health and wellness, as well as in the areas of creative arts and
vocational exposure.
A champion of good governance, Ms. Yap was a judge for the Charity Governance Awards, a national-level awards
initiated by the Charity Council, from 2012-2016. She contributed to the government’s Refinement of the Code of
Governance for Charities and Institutions of a Public Character, and to the Charity Transparency Framework. A former
journalist, Ms. Yap serves on the boards of the Shared Services for Charities Ltd., and the Community Justice Centre
in Singapore, which she helped to establish and continues to support.
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Plenary Sessions
Speakers: ANG Bee Lian | Singapore University of Social Sciences | Ministry of Social and Family Development
Maria Nieves TAPIA | CLAYSS, Latin American Center for Service-Learning
TAN Chi Chiu | Singapore Management University
YAP Su-Yin | Tan Chin Tuan Foundation
In the early years of development, the service-learning community has predominantly focused on service-learning’s
benefits to students and educational institutions. The first part of this plenary session seeks to focus on the role of
the community in service-learning, discussing how communities can influence educational institutions, and the
ethics and importance of ensuring that benefits are reciprocal for both communities and educational institutions,
before leading into the next plenary session on Tertiary Institutions’ Role in Social Responsibility.
Universities cannot be sustainable without being responsible. Globally, more and more universities are embedding
social responsibility into their mission. A socially responsible higher education will ultimately be equipping students
with the ability to solve societal problems, and they continue to be active change makers in society. As higher
education leaders seek ways to achieve sustainability, questions remain. What does our community really need?
How do we engage them? How is it funded and facilitated? How do we measure the social impact of universities’
community engagement effort?
09:00 Plenary Session 2: Best Practices in Global Service-Learning and Its Impact on Global Social
Responsibility
Research on service-learning suggests that the intention of the community-based activity is key to distinguishing it
from other forms of community-based education. In other words, it is the intentions behind S-L activity that
determine the practice undertaken and the outcomes achieved. In this session four experienced practitioners will
share reflections on global service-learning intentions ranging across a continuum of service, social entrepreneurship
and solidarity, and on how these intentions can inform specific practices that promote global social responsibility.
Audience members will explore and discuss these issues as they are expressed in their varied cultural, institutional
and geographical contexts.
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Market Place: Poster Session & Exhibition
Poster Presentations
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
1. A Study of College Students’ Experiences and Learning Outcomes in Service-Learning Focusing on Medical
Problems of the Remote Communities in Taiwan
This study integrates adventure education where students cycle around the island of Taiwan and service-learning project
in urban area to investigate the relationships between developmental process and college students’ learning outcomes.
Seventeen students attended the cycling training, workshops for leadership and communication and discuss about the
medical resource issues from the department of Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy, during the 2018
academic year. After training, the service-learning program took 15 days to complete cycling around Taiwan and the
medical services journey.
Keywords: Adventure Education, Learning Outcomes, Medical Service, Remote Communities, Service-Learning
2. A Study of the Learning Portfolio and Effect of Integrated Service Learning on Guiding Students’
Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Leadership – the Case of Business Administration Courses
Developing students’ capabilities that live up to the needs of modern society by means of innovative curriculum design
and content is the common concern of every educator. This action research on teaching practice originates from a
reflection on the traditional curriculum and teaching. Also, it corresponds to Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages’
USR strategy that emphasizes the development of Wenzao’s experience for augmented influence on the local
community and the extensive social participation of teachers and students for demonstration of the USR.
This presentation will share an example of environmental sustainability focused Community Service-Learning with the
National Parks Board (NParks) using the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approach and how students
work closely with NParks to learn about the sustainability topics to bring in different stakeholders of the community at
North-West district of Singapore through outreach and events.
The study targets included 11 classes of the Philosophy of Life Courses in the first semester of 2018 academic year. The
research materials are curriculum design and teacher’s reflective journal for “Service-Learning”. The results found that
students and faculty report that Service-Learning has a positive impact on students’ academic learning. Service-Learning
has strong influences on the ability of students to connect the theory which is learned in the classroom to the real world.
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Poster Presentations
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
Singapore used to have something called “Kampung Spirit” but it was lost somehow during our rapid growth from third
world to a first world nation. Ground-up Initiative (GUI) aims to revive the sense of community and resilience through the
building of a Kampung Kampus by the community, for the community.
6. Does Service-Learning project enhance civic learning in media students?: Comparing results from two
runs of News Reporting & Feature Writing
Playwright and screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard once said, “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism
is a more immediate short-term weapon.” To train media students in ethical knowledge, moral and/or societal
responsibility to achieve public goods and make positive impact in society can be daunting. One pedagogy that holds
promise to achieve that end is Service-Learning (S-L).
This research investigated the effectiveness of curriculum-based service-learning programs offered by a major research
university in southern Taiwan (n=284), based on pre- and post- courses questionnaires. Pre-test found that students’ prior
experience in service-learning programs have a positive correlation with understanding of service-learning and societal
empathy. Undergraduates were found to have a significant increase in the understanding of service-learning, a greater
sense of involvement and concern for the society at pre-post survey analysis.
In today’s society that has been criticized to be more isolated and individualist, there is a need for an education that
increases the social concern and awareness of students. In this light, the supervised field experience course sets the
culminating integrative course for higher education students. This study followed the pre-test post-test design before
and after the supervised fieldwork of students. It was used to identify more relevant approaches to increasing social
concern and awareness among higher education learners.
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Poster Presentations
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
9. Engaging Youth Pilots to Engage with Seniors and Seniors with Dementia for Intergenerational Learning
Cycling Without Age Singapore engaged with students and seniors as part of a service-learning innovation.
Keywords: Quality Of Life, Social Connectedness, Intergenerational Learning, Seniors With Dementia
In an era of globalization, graduate engineers are expected to challenge themselves in technology and industry niche.
Engineers also need to be well prepared in aspects of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Engineering service project was
designed, namely as Multidisciplinary Engineering Service in Community (MESIC) as an intervention based on the four
values of multidisciplinary collaboration. This poster provides an overview of the MESIC program as well as the inclusion
of the practices and student outcomes in the aspect of multidisciplinary learning.
11. Exploring Kolb Experiential Learning and Reflection -Based on the Experience of Undergraduates’
Participation in Non- Curricular Service-Learning Activities
This study mainly discussed the differences in reflection of undergraduates during the service-learning process. Using
the methods approach, the investigation utilized a questionnaire designed based on Kolb's experiential learning style
theory. The survey was conducted for 119 participants from four universities in southern Taiwan, who had participated in
non- curricular service-learning activities. The results showed that most of the undergraduates are of the converging
learning style, followed by diverging, then assimilating, and finally as accommodating.
12. Exploring Reciprocity in Partnerships: The Case of Japan Summer Service-Learning at ICU
International Christian University (ICU) of Japan has over 20 years of experience in integrating International Service-
Learning (ISL) in undergraduate education. ICU developed an inbound Service-Learning program called Japan Summer
Service-Learning (JSSL). We attempt to examine how JSSL helped improve reciprocity and partnership, by using the
SOFAR model and E-T-T model (Bringle et al., 2009) and try to understand where we stand in these models as to know if
there is any area of improvement.
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Market Place: Poster Session & Exhibition
Poster Presentations
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
Service-Learning is one of teaching methods. The trainers shall lead students to learn how to observe everything at the
various stages of Service-Learning, in order to help them re-build their awareness toward the value of social diversity
through the cross-cultural impact. A challenge to be encountered by Overseas Service-Learning activities frequently is
“whether the faculty or employees are willing to lead students to engage in Overseas Service-Learning activities and
guide the students to grow through introspection during the whole journey”.
14. Fostering and Strengthening Citizenship through Pioneering Efforts in Service-Learning Among Senior
High School Students of St. John’s Institute
With the introduction of Service-Learning (S-L) in the Senior High School, students of St. John’s Institute (SJI) in the
Philippines have found an avenue to strengthen the school’s thrust on holistic education through community
engagement. It includes financial literacy and basic bookkeeping for sidewalk vendors, livelihood training for mothers,
HIV-AIDS awareness campaign, and protection of migratory birds. It presents four areas of learning– technical, cultural,
organizational and new knowledge gained.
Keywords: Senior High S-L, Civic Engagement, ABM And STEM Students’ Service-Learning
RAMS is an oft-required document when planning for outdoors and overseas service learning trips; and often remains as
a document that is filed away. A sigh of relief when senior management passes or approves the RAMS. Through this
poster, we aim to share ideas that make RAMS a living and practical guide in recce trips, pre–trip trainings and day to day
practical pointers while on the service learning activity.
The study targets included 25 professional classes' curriculum design and teacher’s reflective journal for the “service-
learning”. The qualitative analysis is used as a main method. The student’s motivation for participation plays a key role in
the service-learning curriculum. The challenges faced by the teachers involve how to induce students to actively learn,
reduce the uncertainty and improve the self-identity and value. Let the “service” be able to be “learned”. Moreover,
teachers can use the multi-curricular model to guide the reflection.
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Market Place: Poster Session & Exhibition
Poster Presentations
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
As part of Singapore University of Social Sciences' Service-Learning programme, two students established an academic
mentoring programme, Project Learn Love Live. With education being a social enabler, these students aim to address
Singapore's socio-economic gap through weekly mentoring, providing both academic and social emotional support. As
this project crosses a significant milestone, the students evaluated on the effectiveness of the mentoring programme,
and reflected on the challenges faced and how to address them.
18. Reflection on the Integration of Service-Learning Concepts into Aesthetic Education Camp: On-site
Observations of the General Convener of the Camp
The Ministry of Education in Taiwan promotes the "aesthetic education" for all ages in recent years, which is hoping to
establish a multi-faceted aesthetic experiences. This case study is an aesthetic education summer camp organized by an
art university in Taiwan. It is conducted in a way that participates in the observation method. It integrates the service
learning concept into the aesthetic education camp and how it benefits students' growth.
19. Shifting from service-learning to social impact: supporting student-led initiatives at Yale-NUS College
Service-learning is often faculty-led, and situated between polarities of charity and justice. This poster describes how
service-learning is student-led and approached through the lens of social impact through an integrated office at Yale-
NUS College, a young liberal arts college in Singapore co-founded by Yale University and the National University of
Singapore. The underlying ethos and programmes offered via this particular office are first described. Impact is
subsequently illustrated through 2 case studies before concluding remarks.
20. Social design as a tool to ensure that service-learning will not become a mere formality
In this study, we reviewed more than 10 years of overseas service-learning experience at Fu Jen University. We find that
spanning social systems, across organizations, across academic fields, and across learning backgrounds, it is very easy to
expand the negative effects of the organizational process, even deviating from the original purpose of service-learning.
In conclusion, social design, a practical approach to problem analysis and resolution, will help to improve the
aforementioned negative organizational process effects.
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Market Place: Poster Session & Exhibition
Poster Presentations
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
21. The Case of Human Ecological Camps at the College of Human Ecology, UP Los Baños
This study aims to present the experience of the College of Human Ecology, UP Los Baños in bringing together its
different courses on Training Design and Management (SDS 30) and Introduction to Human Ecology (HUME 100)
including different student organizations in the design and management of ecological camps for its first year students.
The paper also examines the different factors and impacts of this service-learning initiative for the student-facilitator,
faculty members, student-participants, and student organization partners.
22. The impact of International Service-Learning on student development of skills, social awareness and level
of happiness
This poster demonstrates the impact of International Service-Learning (ISL) on the student’s development of skills, social
responsibilities, and level of happiness. The paper also indicates the important role of teachers in student’s development
during ISL projects: students who were guided by teachers had stronger development than those who were simply
volunteering on their own. The research has been done in Vietnam, where 193 students from Singapore joining ISL
projects held by ECO Vietnam Group from March to June of 2018.
Keywords: International Service-Learning, Skill Development, Social Awareness, Level Of Happiness, Importance Of
Teacher
23. The Impact of Service-Learning on College Students' Attachment Style and Self-worth
The purposes of this study are: (1) to understand how attachment style influences self-worth; (2) to understand if the effect
of different types of service learning and core elements affect self-worth; (3) to understand if given the effect of different
types of service learning and core elements, is there a connection between attachment style and self-worth; (4) to
understand if there is a gender and grade difference between the connection of attachment style and self- worth.
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Collaborating Community Partners
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
1. Air Amber
Air Amber is a social enterprise that seeks to impact communities. They strive to nurture a global generation of youth
with a HEART of compassion, a MIND harnessed with creativity and HANDS immersed in action. Air Amber adopts the
ABCD methodology (Asset Based Community Development) to reach out to disadvantaged children who are living in
Prisons in Nepal because their parents are incarcerated. It is launching a series of books, curated, narrated and authored
by such beneficiaries. The focus is around overcoming failures, bravery, courage, sacrifice, family ties, perseverance etc.
4. ExtraOrdinary Horizons
Registered in 2011, ExtraOrdinary Horizons (EO Horizons) is an enterprise run by Deaf with its vision to create an inclusive
society where the disadvantaged attain confidence in their own abilities. They aim to promote deaf awareness through
sign language courses, workshops, interpretation/translation services and performances. EO Horizons also aims to help
Deaf better integrate into mainstream society and to be accepted for who they are.
6. Kopi Corner
The Kopi Corner is run by Air Amber, a local youth led social enterprise that has been harnessing the power of inter-
generational innovation. The Kopi corner will feature, Wow Weicong a community extraordinaire who will take visitors
on a community kopi journey, discovering the narratives that blend community and kopi. The genesis of the experience
comes from L!VE Cafe & Lab which Air Amber runs, located at a local eldercare centre. They spent over 6months to co-
develop with seniors and youth at the centre the special Inter-generational local Nanyang coffee blend. Since the blend
was launched, we have seen over 5000 cups of local Nanyang Kopi served!
10. Project Integrate - “Sports as Interaction Activity and Service-Learning in Migrant Dormitories”
Project Integrate is a service-learning activity that was initiated and carried out by students from Hwa Chong Institution
for the past 6 years. They visit the migrant workers dorms on Saturday and Sunday nights to join the workers in sports
and games. From the weekly sports, the team has developed networks that support the migrant workers to be
VOLUNTEERS at St Luke’s Hospital. The project also facilitates concerts and outings on public holidays.
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Collaborating Community Partners
Founding Sponsor: Lingnan Foundation
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Paper Presentations
Ricky Ricky
Juliana Anggono
Petra Christian University
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Paper Presentations
09:00 The Academy of Learning Activities Gauged Creating a Culture of College Health: Service-
for Achievement and Development Learners Utilizing Positive Community Norms
(ALAGAD) Project: Bringing governance to Reduce Tobacco Products Use
closer to the grassroots
Kristen SCHOLLY
Meljun R. BANOGON University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Negros Oriental State University
10:00 University of St. La Salle CSLP: Responding Application of Social Work Supervision Model
to Local, National and Global Issues through in University Service-Learning Courses in
Multi-disciplinary Service-Learning Mainland China: A Qualitative Study on
Students’ Participation
Dexter M. TABUJARA
University of St. La Salle WANG Yihang
FU Yao
XIANG Di
Fudan University
1F - Block C Level 5 Room C.5.15 (Refer 1G - Block C Level 6 Room C.6.05 (Refer
to Page 45) to Page 45)
09:30 Teaching Reflection for Service-Learning How does the Service-Learning Teaching
Assistant (SLTA) Program promote students’
Jolyn HONG Su Rong development?
Methodist College Kuala Lumpur
Winnie NG Wing Yi
Candy NG Shuk Man
Lingnan University
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Paper Presentations
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Paper Presentations
11:30 Integrating Service-Learning Change of Plans: Shifting the Extracting the Significant
Method in focus Mid-Term Learning: Exploration to the
Creativepreneurship Course: Thoughts of Selected
Changing the Face of Lisa Gayle BOND Participants of CUAC-Asia
Society Dokkyo University ISLP 2019
Sari HOSOYA
Mariana WIBOWO Kanto Gakuin University Divino Lopez CANTAL Jr.
Petra Christian University Trinity University of Asia
12:00 Service-Learning: An
Emerging Experiential
Learning Tool
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Paper Presentations
3D - Block C Level 5 Room C.5.10 (Refer 3E - Block C Level 5 Room C.5.14 (Refer
to Page 53) to Page 54)
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Paper Presentations
16:00 Learning outcomes of The National Service Training Connecting the Dots:
International Service- Program: NSTP as Multifaceted analysis of
Learning in the Japanese Community Service and Students, Faculty and
context Formation in the Ateneo Community in Life Frontier
Engagement of Lady Doak
Atsuko KURONUMA Renard C. TORRECAMPO College, India
The University of Tokyo Ateneo de Manila University
Priscilla A. S.
Mathangi KALITHAS
Lady Doak College
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Paper Presentations
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Paper Presentations
PENG Huaming
Nanjing University
ZHOU Zheng
Southwestern University of
Finance and Economics
QI Lin
Australian National University
YAO Jinzhong
Jimei University
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Paper Presentations
14:30 The Social Impact of the Service-Learning Exploring Cross-Cultural Overseas Service-
Components of the National Service Training Learning of International Students and
Program in the Philippines: The Case of the Domestic students in Madurai, India
University of Santo Tomas
Mathangi KALITHAS
Mark Anthony D. ABENIR Lady Doak College
University of Santo Tomas
15:00 A synergistic, sustainable approach in Service- The viewpoint of disability studies in service-
Learning: School-Community-Corporate learning
Partnership
ZHENG Yang Yi
Dineshchander Gulabrai SAWLANI University of Macau
Whelan CHEN Jianming
Canberra Secondary School
LU Ching Hui
CHEN Zi Yan
YANG Zi Yi
University of Macau
6C - Block C Level 5 Room C.5.09 (Refer 6D - Block C Level 5 Room C.5.10 (Refer
to Page 66) to Page 67)
Marieke BINK
Kristine SCHAAN
Cycling Without Age Singapore
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Flipped Classroom Discussions
Singapore University of Social Sciences | Rebelhouse Singapore University of Social Sciences | Rebelhouse
Asia Asia
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Resource Sharing Workshops
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Resource Sharing Workshops
Using the SLQAT to Assess the Quality of Course- Service-Learning and Building Social Capital in
Based Service-Learning Grassroots Communities
11:30 - 5G - Block C Level 6 Room 5H - Block C Level 6 Room 5J - Block C Level 6 Room
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Panel Discussions
Impacts of Service-Learning Intercultural Experiences – An Analysis of 16 years of the Lingnan W.T. Chan
Fellowship
Session: Sharing Our Lifelong Journeys for Social Responsibility---Where’s The Wisdom in Service-
Learning?
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Learning Journeys
Event Partner: Youth Corps Singapore (YCS)
Learning Journey 1
The Kranji Heritage Trail was launched in 2011 and Located in the far northwest of Singapore, Sungei
covers 14 historical and agricultural trail markers. Buloh Wetland Reserve is Singapore’s first ASEAN
This trail will begin with a somber visit to one of Heritage Park with extensive mangrove forests
Asia's largest and best-kept war memorials, where filled with rich biodiversity.
the guide will do a tour and commentary on the
significance of Kranji during World War 2. With tidal ponds and mangrove forests, it
supports an ecosystem of birds, reptiles and
The next stop will be to Bollywood Veggies for an mammals. At the same time, it provides visitors a
immersive and experiential-guided farm tour. The chance to encounter and admire these animals in
guide will bring you through a 10-acre organic their natural habitats.
garden and share interesting facts and uses of
different plants, focusing on war plants and food.
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Learning Journeys
Event Partner: Youth Corps Singapore (YCS)
Learning Journey 2
What if you had to go through your daily routine On 25 July 2014, Singapore’s Housing Development
without being able to see anything? Enter Board (HDB) announced that Dakota Crescent
Dialogue in the Dark Singapore (DID) with would be slated for redevelopment. By December
colleagues, school mates, or family members and 2016, residents have moved out of this place they
experience everyday situations – in complete used to call 'home'. Consisting of a majority ageing
darkness. Dialogue in the Dark offers a unique and population, some struggle with small things like
effective platform to raise awareness and facilitate taking the lift, remembering their way home, and
inclusion of all segments in the community, making friends with new neighbours. Others
regardless of race, religion and disabilities, as they struggle with bigger things like keeping their
are no longer visible in the dark. house clean, getting regular meals and staying
healthy.
The concept is simple yet powerful, and the
experience profound. The result? A mind shift, The relocation of an entire estate calls into question
deeper insights, and strengthened bonds. Singaporean's idea of 'home'. What are the impacts
of demolishing a site relatable to the population?
Do people make the place, or does the place make
the people? With these questions, we hope to open
the discussion about how we care for different
populations, activation of the community, and
what a ground-up response can look like. The tour
consists of a walk in the estate of Dakota Crescent,
following the story of relocation to Cassia Crescent
with a stop at Old Airport Hawker Centre in
between.
Children with special needs should not miss out on the joy of playing with toys just because they have difficulty
operating small ON and OFF buttons. The Hack-a-Toy workshops aim to teach participants how to DIY their own
accessibility switches to adapt off-the-shelf toys for easy activation by children with special needs.
This not only restores their joy in playing, but also helps them learn about cause and effect, and encourages the
development of their motor skills.
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Learning Journeys
Event Partner: Youth Corps Singapore (YCS)
Learning Journey 3
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Learning Journeys
Event Partner: Youth Corps Singapore (YCS)
Learning Journey 3
“You make a living by what you get. You make a life Project X was established in November 2008 by
by what you give.” – Winston Churchill Wong Yock Leng, a social worker who recognized
that sex workers in Singapore are among the most
Embark on a learning journey to The Red Box, Youth marginalized and discriminated in society, and saw
Corps Singapore’s social action hub set in the heart a gap in services for the sex worker community. A
of Orchard Road. Hear from youth leaders on their regular group of committed volunteers would walk
volunteering experiences, and how they engage and the streets of Geylang to speak to sex workers and
serve various beneficiaries and the community at close the gap between sex workers and non-sex
large. workers.
Hosted by Youth Corps Singapore, this learning Since then, Project X has grown to become a
activity will take you through a sharing by youths community-based organisation where sex workers
and simulation activities. are hired as staffs and are directly involved in the
planning and execution of their programmes.
Youth Corps Singapore, under the National Youth
Council, is a national institution that empowers Project X envision a fair and safe sex industry for
youths who are keen to serve the community. As the everyone involved and a society that respects sex
champion for youth volunteerism in building active workers, their clients, partners, and families.
citizenry, it harnesses the energy and passion of
youths to ignite positive change in the society. Youth Through this learning journey, you will get to learn
Corps Singapore provides the breadth and depth of about the laws on the sex industry in Singapore, the
volunteering opportunities for youths during and work of Project X and the common issues faced by
beyond their school days. sex workers. Two sex workers will be sharing their
stories, followed by a Q&A.
Find out more at www.youthcorps.sg
About a third of the world’s food is lost or thrown away each year. In Singapore, we throw away more than 2,000
tonnes of food every day on average.
Join SG Food Rescue to get a first-hand experience of rescuing food and vegetables that are thrown away because
they are unsaleable, but are perfectly good to consume.
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Learning Journeys
Event Partner: Youth Corps Singapore (YCS)
Learning Journey 4
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Abstract Overview
Students from the Colleges of Nursing and Architecture and Environmental Design participated in a week-long
Service-Learning activity in Hawaii. Post-service interviews were conducted soon after the program in 2018, and in
the spring of 2019, the participants will once again be interviewed. The purpose of the interviews is to ascertain the
long-term impact that this inter-professional Service-Learning program has had on the participants.
09:30 The Influence of Service-Learning on the Civic Attitudes and Skills of Japanese Teacher Education
Candidates
This study examined the effects of integrating a service-learning project into the curriculum of undergraduate
education majors at an urban university in Japan. The teachers engaged in service-learning by supporting high
school students in the development and implementation of social action projects. The study found that while the
teacher candidates experienced benefits from their service-learning, including significant gains in their political
awareness and commitment to civic action, their self-perception of leadership skills declined over the course of the
seminar.
Keywords: Teacher Education, Service-Learning, Civic Attitudes and Skills, Japan, CASQ
10:00 Transforming college students through an International Service-Learning project: An evidence from
Indonesia
This research is about evaluating an international Service-Learning project called international community outreach
program. The evaluation centered on the transformation of the participating-students in four aspects: spiritual,
intrapersonal, interpersonal and institutional. The research is expected to inform the practice of the Service-
Learning activity as well as the body of knowledge related to the impact of Service-Learning.
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Abstract Overview
09:00 Comparing the Vietnamese students’ outcomes, motivations and expectations with and without the
service-learning project integrating in writing course
In Vietnam, service-learning (S-L) is still under-researched. This study, for the first time, integrates the S-L project in
news writing course in Public Relations program. The students were divided into two groups: one did traditional
writing project, another did the S-L project. Final products and student’s surveys at the end of the course were
evaluated between two groups. The results of this study will be discussed if the S-L project is suitable for
Vietnamese students at this moment.
A university cannot be sustainable without being socially responsible. This is also a commitment of Soegijapranata
Catholic University (SCU), especially to alleviate poverty in east Sumba. We have found that poverty and local
customs has caused women to bear heavier burden than men. Therefore we have held some activities to encourage
changes in women's behavior for reducing poverty and strengthening economic resilience. The most effective way
to harmonize culture, paradigm and behavior is through whole person education.
09:00 Service-Learning in Aging: A case study of Art Facilitation in dementia care setting
To cope with the growing burden of ageing and dementia, increasing numbers of programmes to promote active
ageing and maintain a healthy brain are being executed around the world. Service-learning in aging is getting
popular as it can play an important role in helping young people to get to know and connect with the elderly. This
paper proposes a service-learning programme of artistic creativity to facilitate expression among people with early
dementia to help them to better communicate with others.
09:30 Infusing Service-Learning into Allied Health Profession Curriculum: Perceived Enablers and Barriers
Cognizant of the need for transformative pedagogies to meet the health and social development needs as well as
the contextual challenges of implementing service-learning in Philippine higher education, the paper explored how
service-learning can be integrated specifically in the allied health profession curriculum of a premier private Catholic
University in the Philippines. It sought to understand the enablers and barriers of adopting service-learning in the
context of a Philippine occupational therapy education.
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Abstract Overview
09:00 The Academy of Learning Activities Gauged for Achievement and Development (ALAGAD) Project:
Bringing governance closer to the grassroots
The Academy of Learning Activities Gauged for Achievement and Development is a social service-learning
programs design for the newly elected barangay officials in the Municipality of Mabinay, Philippines. It provides
relevant courses on public policy, strengthening local governance and leadership for the newly elected local young
village leaders and assess their long-term social programs and political goals in their respective barangays. It
revealed how realistic the achievement of some outputs in the program were important to community-driven
development discourse.
Keywords: Local Governance, Social Service, Development, Public Policy, Village, Barangays
As the participant, I highlighted not only our policy research, outcomes and follow-up actions, but delineate the
roles of Office of Service-Learning and the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute in facilitating our learning. Service
in this case is performed through research, but we are taking a step further by attending a symposium on April and
attempting to introduce the policy to the Education Bureau, albeit the completion of the programme. This reflects
the empowerment of students as citizens.
10:00 University of St. La Salle CSLP: Responding to Local, National and Global Issues through Multi-
disciplinary Service-Learning
The University of St. La Salle Service-Learning Program has gained meaningful engagements with students, faculty
and community in its service-learning practices through the years. The program continues to make itself relevant
by anchoring on the thematic programs recommended by De La Salle Philippines while also responding on the
Sustainable Development Goals. Considering this and the interest of the university to have more impact in the
community, it designed the Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Service-Learning.
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Abstract Overview
09:00 Creating a Culture of College Health: Service-Learners Utilizing Positive Community Norms to Reduce
Tobacco Products Use
Students in an upper level undergraduate Educational Psychology course participated in a semester-long service-
learning project utilizing the Positive Community Norms model as a means to reduce the use of electronic nicotine
delivery system products (ENDS), and support a tobacco-free campus policy shift. The goal of the service-learning
initiative was to engage students in an educational effort to change community perceptions regarding ENDS
products and ultimately reduce the rate of tobacco use among the college population.
09:30 Design-Driven Social Service-Learning: Applying Design Thinking Process to Community Design
We see our Social Service-Learning in the form of the integration of academic courses. The project has provided
students an opportunity to learn about the circumstances that one small village along Myanmar/Thailand western
borderline in Rachaburi Province called Borwee, has been facing: political, socio-cultural and economical
challenges. The goal of the project is to explore the alternative solutions and strategies that can create positive
changes by applying Design Thinking Process throughout the research and design phases.
10:00 Application of Social Work Supervision Model in University Service-Learning Courses in Mainland
China: A Qualitative Study on Students’ Participation
This paper is based on a qualitative study about a new service-learning practice in Mainland China. This abstract is
a refinement of the full-text content, including the discovery and presentation of research questions, research
methods, research findings and discussion, and finally gives recommendations for follow-up research and practice.
By reading the abstract, readers can have a clear understanding of the framework and specific content of this paper.
Keywords: Service-Learning, Social Work Supervision, Student Motivation, General Education, Mainland China
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Abstract Overview
09:00 Reflective Learning Gained By Selected University of Santo Tomas’ BA Sociology Graduates
(Academic Years 2015-2016 to 2018-2019) From Service-Learning Vis-a-Vis Community-Engaged
Research
Service-Learning has been part of the curriculum of BA Sociology of the University of Santo Tomas (Manila,
Philippines) since 2012. One of the major Service-Learning channels maximized by the Department was through its
Thesis program, specifically its Community Engagement Research track. There were researches produced through
community engagement research track from Academic Years 2015-2016 to 2017-2018. There were ten (10)
purposively selected graduates as research participants. Their reflective learning has been presented and gained its
impact.
One key component in Service-Learning is reflection. It functions as a platform between the service and academic
content as it helps give new interpretations to events. Challenges in teaching come because of its metacognitive
component that requires introspection. This paper presents a simple framework, to teach students to produce
meaningful reflection. Since employing this framework, students' improvements had been evident, with written
reflections that are more meaningful and through analytical processes, students' projects, ideas and overall self-
growth had improved.
09:00 Measuring the Effectiveness of Service-Learning Teaching Assistants in Enhancing the Quality of the
Courses with Service-Learning Elements
Since 2013, the Lingnan University, has launched the Service-Learning Teaching Assistants (SLTA) programme, a
unique undergraduate teaching assistant model in Hong Kong, in which provides training to selected
undergraduate students to be SLTAs. They offer high quality support to faculty and also coordinating Service-
Learning responsibilities and mentoring the students in Service-Learning projects. Since its launch, SLTAs are highly
appreciated by all stakeholders (including students, faculty members, community partners and Service-Learning
coordinators).
09:30 How does the Service-Learning Teaching Assistant (SLTA) Program promote students’ development?
The Service-Learning Teaching Assistant (SLTA) is a role to support the course-based service-learning projects to
empower students becoming service leaders. Since there is a lack of investigation on the benefits gain by teaching
assistants, two questions are addressed: “What kind of service leadership qualities can be nurtured through SLTA?”,
“What are the deciding factors resulting in the SLTAs’ acquirement of service leadership qualities?” It is found that
SLTAs have gained significant development and the findings are shared to service-learning institutions.
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Abstract Overview
09:00 Developing a Global Research Agenda for Service-Learning and Community Engagement
As a research association for service-learning and community engagement, the International Association for
Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) focuses on advancing the quality, quantity,
and impact of research on service-learning and community engagement across the globe and across the
educational spectrum (primary, secondary, and higher education). In September 2020, IARSLCE will celebrate its
20th Anniversary Conference. At that conference, a global research agenda for service-learning and community
engagement will be unveiled as a way to set the research course for the future. In preparation, IARSLCE is
conducting a series of "Research Agenda Development Meetings" on every continent to gather information from
individuals interested in service-learning and community engagement on the questions, methods, and designs that
the future research studies on service-learning and community engagement should take. A part of this global series
of meetings, this session will be facilitated by two IARSLCE board members. Participants will be actively engaged in
developing the agenda by offering their input on important issues to consider for the future research on service-
learning and community engagement.
In this workshop, with the train-the-trainer perspective in mind, we will demonstrate how we can fully utilize
TOUCH's validated Service-Learning resource books to increase students’ knowledge of service-learning and
current issues, equipping and enabling educators with competency tools to facilitate meaningful reflections. This
will enable students to create sustainable projects that address a societal or community need and paving a way for
them to play an active role in transforming the community.
09:00 Impacts of Service-Learning Intercultural Experiences – An Analysis of 16 years of the Lingnan W.T.
Chan Fellowship
Results from a mixed-method study on the short and long term personal, professional, academic, and community
impacts of Service-Learning in the Lingnan WT Chan Fellowship Program. With its East to West focus, this program
is unique in its design consisting of cross-cultural, cross continental, Service-Learning, living experiences with
natives, project-based work, research, skill building, leadership development, and the application of theory to
practice. Results show impacts in all aspects of the lives of the Fellows.
Keywords: Service-Learning, Service Life-Long Impacts, Service-Learning Community Impacts, Service Mind-Set,
Intercultural Service-Learning
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Abstract Overview
11:00 Serving with These-abilities: An Inclusive Service-Learning Case Study from Singapore
Brimming with passions and gifts, youth with disabilities have much to offer beyond the traditional label as
beneficiaries of aid. The SPD Youth Development Program seeks to reverse this deficiency paradigm, by equipping
youth with disabilities with social innovation skills and empowering them to catalyse inclusive change. This paper
shares insights gleaned from a two-year experimental program that tries to change perspectives on disabilities and
engender greater inclusion in Singapore.
11:30 The intervention research about the effect of Inclusive Teacher Education Course Based on Service-
Learning on College Students’ Attitudes towards disabilities
Service-learning, as an effective teaching method and an attitude intervention method, is helpful to reduce the
negative attitude towards the disability. We utilized quantitative (SADP, IAT) and qualitative methodology to explore
college students’ (Traditional teaching group; Service-Learning Group; Control group) attitude. The conclusion
clarifies the different roles of curriculum learning and service activity components in inclusive education course,
supports the important value of indirect contact strategy combined with direct contact strategy for changing
attitudes towards disabled people.
Keywords: Service-Learning, People With Disabilities, Implicit Attitudes, Explicit Attitudes, College Students
12:00 Innovative Google Earth-based Community Service for Inclusive Nation Building
This paper presents the innovative community service program that is part of Petra Christian University (PCU)
Servant Leadership class Service-Learning (S-L) project. As part of PCU contribution to the nation, Servant
Leadership class S-L project educates elementary school children from marginalized school across Surabaya about
multiculturalism. The usage of Google Earth for thematic learning created a new, innovative experience that is
interactive for the elementary student. Allowing for a more effective multiculturalism education that opens up
students’ insights.
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Abstract Overview
11:00 Entrenching Empathy: Implementation of a Service-Learning Mindset within Nursing and Optometry
Students
This presentation discusses the conception, implementation and the aspirations of the School of Health Sciences
(HS) Service-Learning (S-L) ecosystem. This programme starts with an “Empathy Challenge” in the freshmen
orientation and is followed by classes (modules) that are designated S-L modules in the Year 1- 3 curricula of the
Diplomas in Nursing (NSG) and Optometry (OPT). The pilot studies of the effectiveness of S-L in these modules will
be discussed as part of the discussion on the HS S-L eco-system.
11:30 Correlates of Well-Being among Selected Older Adults in an Elderly Development Program
This study aims to determine the correlation of well-being in older adults with protective factors such as social
support, self-esteem, perceived general health status and meaning in life and with risk factors such as depression.
Other goals are to identify the perceived needs, ways of coping and sources of support among older adults and to
learn the older population's definition of happiness. The conclusions work towards enlightening the future
development of a holistic program for the Filipino elderly
Keywords: Elderly Development, Biopsychosocial Well-Being, Health, Aging
The project aimed to encourage changes in women's paradigm and behavior for reducing poverty, as well as
strengthening economic resilience through the student community service. This student community service is held
by Wira Wacana University (WWU). The implementation of community Service-Learning creates closeness between
the university and the community through the role of their students. Understanding on gender perspective is the
key to alleviate poverty in Sumba. This should be initiated from students, lecturers, government officials, and
households.
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Abstract Overview
11:00 Experiential Learning Techniques Used for Students Teaching Entrepreneurship for the Poor
Our Entrepreneurship-in-Action Service-Learning program involves our college students to teach the how to “make
money without spending money”. This workshop will share some of the experiential learning techniques we have
developed that enables us to train our students to be entrepreneurial trainers. By sharing our innovative service-
learning pedagogy and best practices, we hope that others may use our experience to help alleviate poverty in their
area.
11:30 Integrating Service-Learning Method in Creativepreneurship Course: Changing the Face of Society
This study shows that integration of service-learning method to this course had been beneficial to the society,
enhanced student’ civic responsibility, improved students’ social skills and its members, as well as gave birth to new
startup and student’ entrepreneurs also. This also develops an effectiveness of service-learning method that relates
to creative entrepreneur efforts, changing the face of society and economic development of a nation.
Service-Learning is a commitment that has engaged all stakeholders equally at CHRIST (Deemed to be University).
Various Academic Departments also actively engage in Service-Learning through their respective discipline-based
modules. The paper aims to capture the Best Practices at CHRIST and the learning from the Academic Departments
who traversed this journey of S-L with Centre for Social Action.
11:00 Psychological & Psychosocial Interventions in Flood Affected Victims: A Service-Learning Initiative
This article addresses the need for Service-Learning which was significantly experienced by our students through
practice of various awareness programmes and intervention techniques among the flood affected people of Kerala.
This study emphasizes how the practice of experiential learning was beneficial for both the community as well as
the students during the disillusionment phase of flood disaster. The experiential activities were personally relevant
to the students in deciding psychological mitigation measures in people at very early stages in life.
Keywords: Service-Learning, Coping Strategies Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Collective Recovery And
Resilience, Disaster Management
This presentation will focus on the need to shift the plans and Service-Learning activities in the middle of the term.
The problems that the students and faculty encountered, as well as the new skill sets and awareness gained by the
students when this shift occurred will be presented.
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Abstract Overview
The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of transformative learning in Global Service-Learning (G S-L)
and figure out how to enhance the students’ continuous transformative learning. Also we will find out which factors
are needed in order to maintain their transformative learning. This study has confirmed that each student went
through the transformative learning from Global Service-Learning program. The financial and administrative
supports from universities are also necessary to maintain their changes in transformative learning.
11:30 Extracting the Significant Learning: Exploration to the Thoughts of Selected Participants of CUAC-
Asia ISLP 2019
The study is an exploratory document analysis of the reflection journals of selected participants of an international
Service-Learning program, with the aim of extracting the significant learning based from the taxonomy of L. Dee
Fink. The paper assumed that participants gained new learnings after being exposed to the program, and that these
learnings can be classified according to the Taxonomy of Significant Learning.
The general purpose of this workshop is to share information that will enhance the breadth, depth, and quality of
research on Service-Learning. Participants in this interactive workshop will formulate a research question, consider
conceptual and theoretical perspectives, select a research design, make choices about gathering evidence,
anticipate analysis strategies, and consider venues for presentation and journals for publication.
11:00 Developing a Global Research Agenda for Service-Learning and Community Engagement
As a research association for service-learning and community engagement, the International Association for
Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) focuses on advancing the quality, quantity,
and impact of research on service-learning and community engagement across the globe and across the
educational spectrum (primary, secondary, and higher education). In September 2020, IARSLCE will celebrate its
20th Anniversary Conference. At that conference, a global research agenda for service-learning and community
engagement will be unveiled as a way to set the research course for the future. In preparation, IARSLCE is
conducting a series of "Research Agenda Development Meetings" on every continent to gather information from
individuals interested in service-learning and community engagement on the questions, methods, and designs
that the future research studies on service-learning and community engagement should take. A part of this global
series of meetings, this session will be facilitated by two IARSLCE board members. Participants will be actively
engaged in developing the agenda by offering their input on important issues to consider for the future research
on service-learning and community engagement.
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Abstract Overview
Using a strengths based approach to guide students in Service-Learning helps students to look into a more
sustainable project scope and community empowerment when delivering their Service-Learning Projects. This
workshop will share how SMU has incorporated Asset Mapping in its students’ Service-Learning projects, so as to
guide students in providing a more impactful service to the community.
As a result of improved living standards and medical advancement, the life expectancy has been increasing
throughout the world. An ageing population leads to a much higher demand for healthcare and social
welfare. Making products, facilities, and services inclusive to people of all ages also becomes an essential step in
design and planning. This panel session will bring together administrators, teachers and students from universities
and schools, and community partners to share their practices with stellar examples of service-learning
initiatives. They will explore how different stakeholders in service-learning can learn from each other when trying
to improve how we could contribute to build a socially inclusive and age-friendly society. The panel will also review
and reflect on the most promising solutions emerging from new evidence and innovation.
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Abstract Overview
The aim is to undertake an investigation into the theory, practice and effectiveness of the co-creation of assessment
criteria for critical and reflective journal writing. Writing critical and reflective journals can be challenging for
students, especially if this type of assessment is new to them. It is asserted in this study that students’ active
participation in defining the characteristics of high quality reflective journals, helps them to write more critically and
avoid writing mere descriptive accounts of their service-learning.
14:30 Developing a Measurement Instrument to Assess Student Learning Outcomes after Service-Learning
Experience
The current paper provides an interim progress report of a research study aiming to develop a well-validated
measurement instrument to assess student learning outcomes after service-learning experience in higher
education settings. The scale validation and item reduction exercise resulted in a 56-item measurement instrument
with good internal consistency. This has an underlying factor structure that closely matches the findings in
literature, covering four aspects: a) knowledge application, b) personal and professional skills, c) civic orientation and
engagement, and d) self-awareness.
14:00 Engaging and Strengthening Public and Private Partnership towards the Promotion of Health and
People’s Well-Being for Environmental Sustainability in Selected Riverine Communities
This is a one year project in partnership with the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA) that
aims to engage the local public community through household leaders in addressing issues and concerns on health
and environmental degradation through community-based education sessions facilitated by trained faculty and
students. The changes in knowledge and attitude of the members of the households in the selected two (2) urban
poor communities are highlighted in this paper.
Keywords: Public And Private Partnership, Community-Based Sessions, People’s Well-Being, Riverine Community
Participatory design methodology employed as an extension of service-learning pedagogy serves to reinforce one
another naturally in an academic curriculum. Service-learning provide students the interconnectedness between
their classroom learning, their personal voice and the community that they serve through reflection. The Service-
Learning pedagogy also provides the opportunity for students to utilise participatory design methodology for
accessing community service. This methodology provides a framework for students to follow through from research
to implementation of the service-learning project. This paper shall explore the utilisation of the participatory design
methodology in architecture design studio service-learning projects both in local and overseas settings.
Keywords: Participatory Design Methodology, Service-Learning Pedagogy, Design Studio Pedagogy, Community
Engagement, Collaborative, Iterative Design Process, Co-Creation
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Abstract Overview
14:00 Pedagogy in Action: What Really Matters? Service-Learning at the Master’s Program of De La Salle
University – An Educator’s Perspective
Service-Learning at De La Salle University identified in its strategic objectives for 2015 to 2020 that all programs of
the University should have a Service-Learning component; reiterated again in its strategic plan for 2018 to 2022. In
response to this, the proponent of this paper presents the Service-Learning framework, processes, engaged sector,
development agenda and interventions, initial impact assessment on students’ outcomes using reflection papers;
and prospects for university – wide impact assessment of Service-Learning.
14:30 Service-Learning Pedagogy in Teaching-Learning Process and its Implication to the Community
This study aimed to test the effectiveness of the Service-Learning Model as a teaching-learning strategy in science
subject and its implication to the community. This study utilized the combination of quasi-experimental and
descriptive quantitative research designs. Earth and environmental science students and sample size from the
community became the participants of this study. It is found in this study that the service-learning approach helped
the students improve their performance in the subject, and likewise the awareness and practices of the community.
Part of a wider study on the impact of S-L with structured reflections on civic outcomes, academic connection and
personal growth in polytechnic students, this study focuses on the academic connection aspect of S-L and aims to
examine a) how well students perceive academic connection in a S-L Chinese literary module in two consecutive
runs; b) how academic connection might be strengthened. Reflective teaching from data analysis in October 2017
was conducted to enhance the next run in April 2018.
Keywords: Reflective Teaching, Service-Learning Pedagogy, Academic Connection, Modern Chinese Literature
Service-Learning entails transformation of both the individual and the social world experience through reflection to
find an individual experience before and after doing a project that can be grasped as a tacit knowledge to become
explicit knowledge that enhances the character development as an architecture student.
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Concurrent Breakout Session 3 (Day 2: 20th June 2019 | 14:00 - 15:30)
3E - Block C Level 5 Room C.5.14
14:00 Climate change and Service-Learning in the light of Laudato Si: Reviewing Teachers’ Perceptions
Integral ecology is a concept introduced by Pope Francis in writing Laudato Si (On Care for our Common Home). It
is “integral” because the question of global warming that results to climate change is a shared issue of humanity.
By integrating Service-Learning in the curriculum, this can bring significant contribution in the preservation of the
environment and reverse the effects of climate change. Service-Learning is introduced as an essential component
in the formation of students to prepare them for lifelong learning. The aim of this study is to shed light to the
understanding of Laudato Si and its relevance to climate change and Service-Learning.
14:30 Reflections of faculty on the integration of Service-Learning module in the Accountancy Diploma
curriculum
The Diploma in Accountancy is one of five diplomas offered by the School of Business and Accountancy in Ngee
Ann Polytechnic. In 2017, the Service-Learning (S-L) module development team set out to design the “Service-
Learning in Action” module to demonstrate how accounting principles can be applied in the real world to
enhance the everyday lives of students and migrant workers. This paper aims to share the design of the S-L
module and its effectiveness in meeting the module objectives.
14:00 Service-learning and the curriculum: a review of different models of articulation between community
activities and Higher Education curriculum around the world
Service-learning has been developed in thousands of Higher Educations institutions around the world, with
different accents in students’ academic learning, professional skills and personal development, and with different
focus in learning, research and community alliances. Service-learning projects are developed in very different
institutional frames according to each institution choice. In some cases the projects offer valuable opportunities for
personal development, but are not clearly connected with specific academic content. The session will focus in the
ways quality service-learning projects can be strongly articulated with the curriculum, providing opportunities to
develop and apply specific professional skills and knowledge. Based in a recent research published by CLAYSS, Prof.
Tapia will present the diverse forms of curricular insertion of service-learning practices in Higher Education,
exemplified with cases documented in the Latin American experience and also in other parts of the world.
14:00 Common Ground - Asking the Right Questions to Create Meaningful Projects
Participants will be introduced to Common Ground, a self-facilitated deck of cards that serves as conversational
cues for different stages in a volunteer’s journey in carrying out ground-up initiatives. Through this, participants will
gain awareness and understanding of knowing the right questions to ask during their volunteering or planning
journey, and better appreciate the importance of engaging volunteers meaningfully, so that they can create more
impactful ground-up initiatives for the community.
Keywords: Youth, Design Thinking, Volunteer Management, Community Centric, Youth Development
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14:00 An exploration of young Singaporeans’ lived citizenship through Photovoice – Lessons for citizenship
education and service-learning
This interactive workshop highlights the potential of Photovoice as a participatory research methodology to explore
young people’s lived citizenship. Drawing on findings from a recent Photovoice research with post-secondary young
Singaporeans, the workshop involves a critique of (1) young people’s perceptions of service-learning and citizenship
education, (2) what shaped their citizenship dispositions, and (3) how they practiced their citizenship in their
everyday lives. Workshop participants will be introduced to a youth-centric mobile application specifically designed
for this Photovoice research project.
The purpose of this presentation is to provide a case study for why and how senior leadership at Ngee Ann
Polytechnic decided to make Service-Learning a signature pedagogy of the Polytechnic and to infuse at least one
Service-Learning course in every diploma. Evidence will be provided that, in 3 years, the rapid institutionalization of
Service-Learning meets virtually all of Furco’s (2002) dimensions for institutionalization at the Quality Building level
and achieves many of the dimensions at the Sustained Institutionalization level.
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This paper reports on how the program characteristics affect learning outcomes. I examine 60 written papers who
did "International Service-Learning" at ICU from 1996 to 2010 by employing the Eyler and Giles’ model in 1999. Unique
outcomes at ICU are the impact on career choice and deep consideration of what “service” is, but the “citizenship”
outcome is less noticeable at ICU. The research outcome contributes to reinforcing a theory that service-learning in
different institutions has its characteristics and approaches.
16:30 Empowering Women Weavers to Improve Woven Clothes Products through International Service-
Learning Program in Sumba Tengah Regency
The study discusses the effort to empower women weavers to improve woven clothes products through
International Service-Learning (ISL) Program in Sumba Tengah Regency. Sumbanese women play a key role in
providing the woven clothes, but only small number of women who can make woven clothes. Based on the
problems, the ISL program conducted by Duta Wacana Christian University organized workshops to empower
women weavers to improve their skills in woven clothes making.
16:00 The National Service Training Program: NSTP as Community Service and Formation in the Ateneo
This research aims to provide statistical evidence on the relationship of discipline-based NSTP students’ task to their
perception of NSTP as a formation program. Using the chi square statistical test on two questions found in the
Ateneo de Manila University’s NSTP evaluation tool, the research looks into two batches from two school years to
formulate themes and factors that could improve the program. To further support and contextualize the findings,
additional qualitative responses from the students are also included.
16:30 National Service Training Program as Potential Service-Learning Platform in the Philippines
The National Service Training Program (NSTP) aims to enhance civic consciousness and defense preparedness
among higher education and technical-vocational students. The program provides space for community service
making it a potential platform for service-learning. A review in this paper of studies on NSTP in selected higher
education institutions in the country shows that the principles of service-learning are not deliberately being
practiced. Thus, this paper recommends the enrichment of NSTP with the service-learning pedagogy but consistent
with its legal mandate.
Keywords: National Service Training Program, Higher Education Institutions, Service-Learning, Community
Engagement, Philippines
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16:00 Connecting the Dots: Multifaceted analysis of Students, Faculty and Community in Life Frontier
Engagement of Lady Doak College, India
Life Frontier Engagement is a mandatory service-learning course for the undergraduate students of Lady Doak
College, India, in their final year of study. The relationship stakeholders ultimately influence the growth and
development of entities as either constructive or challenging. This study is conducted through an exploratory,
mixed-methods design. The authors explore the formulation of a strong action plan for planned development,
strengthen partnerships and deepen commitment thereby accomplishing the goals of the institution for engaged
scholarship and development.
Keywords: Service-Learning, Higher Education, Life Frontier Engagement, Stakeholders’ Engagement, Social
Responsibility
16:30 Conceptualizing Assessment of Community Impact in Service-Learning based on the case study on
Japanese NPOs
This study explored formation of concept and variable of assessment based on the voice of Service-Learning field in
Japan. To examine the factors that are important for the formation of community impact concept for its assessment,
this research conducted a qualitative survey targeting 15 NPOs. As a result of the research, community organizations
expect quality of student’s commitment from the reciprocal partnerships in community rather than from physical
support of students or economic benefits.
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16:00 Leadership development in service-learners through a self-concept and career-awareness project for
orphan children
Huong TRAN Thi Thanh | University of Economics and Finance, Ho Chi Minh City
This paper/study is to examine and to document the mechanism of a project that helps the service-learners gain
and develop their leadership and self-concept in one of our service-learning projects named: “Building self-concept
and career awareness for orphan children in the SOS Village, Ho Chi Minh City”. The mechanism includes many
steps and procedures from the preparation period of the project to the entire on-going and the evaluation period
of the project.
Keywords: Leadership In Service-Learners, Self-Concept And Career Awareness, Participatory Approach And
Service-Learning
16:30 Madrasah – Focused Service – Learning, a Platform for Promoting Understanding, Tolerance and
Peace: An Experiential Reflection of Selected Alumni Employed in the Middle East
The study looks into how selected alumni of a Catholic university in the central Philippines focused their literacy and
peacebuilding activities on Madrasah (schools teaching Arabic and Muslim culture) pupils. Moreover, it explores
how their S-L experience with Madrasah schoolchildren have prepared them for their employment in
predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East. It also looks into the S-L impact on their professional life,
particularly in their adjustments on culture, practices, work ethic and religious differences in another land.
17:00 The Service-Learning program in rural areas in Taiwan of the Dream It Possible team
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the approach of a community-based Service-Learning programme in
Taiwan. The programme aims to address the problem that the students in Taiwan have weak self-knowledge, so
the Dream It Possible team connects the young adults to the secondary school students to hold camps and embark
on the journey of self-discovery.
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16:00 Application and Lesson Learned in Civil Engineering, Environmental Science Service-Learning
Program
This paper talks about the transformation of Petra Christian University Civil Engineering Department Environmental
Science class to a Service-Learning class. The background, process, and result of the class transformation into a
Service-Learning class are discussed. It is accepted that the new Service-Learning curriculum is a success and the
class can be used as a possible model for future Service-Learning class in Civil Engineering that provides meaningful
student experience and at the same time serving the local community.
16:30 Service-Learning Practice- A Case Study in Yangdong Cai Yuanpei School Service Program
The presentation is going to introduce what Yangdong Cai Yuanpei School Service Program is, why it plays a
significant role in the hall community, how the model can successfully strengthen the connection of hall residents
and alumnus, how it can support the sustainable community service in rural China, and what are the highlighted
outcomes and the challenges ahead.
16:00 Achieving Civic Outcomes, Academic Connection, Career Preparation and Personal Growth in
Service-Learning modules @ HMS
This study adopts Bringle and Clayton’s (2012) definition of S-L, a “course-based, credit-bearing educational
experience in which students (a) participate in mutually identified service activities that benefit the community, and
(b) reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, a broader
appreciation of the discipline and an enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility” (pp. 114-115), in its
investigation of the impact of curriculum-based S-L on student outcomes.
Keywords: Civic Outcomes, Academic Connection, Career Preparation, Personal Growth, Structured Reflection
This abstract provides more details on a service-learning programme, Youth Expedition Project, which was set up
in 2000 to promote youth development and community engagement around Asia with a focus on ASEAN, China
and India. This session will allow attendees to understand holistically from the views of a programme manager,
youth participant on the benefits and how they can kick-start this initiative in their community.
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When volunteering at Senior Activities Centres (SAC), we noticed that many Foreign Domestic Workers (FDW) were
not engaged when the seniors were at the centres. Understating that Fall Prevention is important for senior citizens,
we piloted an on-site interactive Fall Prevention awareness programme for the FDWs, who are the primary
caregivers of the seniors. We hope that our pilot can be extended by schools to improve existing service-learning
projects to go beyond simple interactions at SACs.
16:00 Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Among Economics, Political Science, and Theology Courses
Theology 141 (Theology of a Catholic Social Vision), Political Science 100 (Politics and Governance), and Economics
177 (Theory and Practice of Social Development) are simultaneously offered in for senior Economics majors.
Educators of these three courses have sought an interdisciplinary approach to service-learning to maximize
students’ community output while meeting their respective learning outcomes more meaningfully. This facilitated
increased relevance of the courses, especially after students have realized their potential to help poorer Filipinos
through academic work that provided service.
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Members in the Taiwanese academia are now working in an age of university social responsibility. In recent years,
Taiwan’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology have provided luxurious funding to promote
university-community engagement projects. However, we have yet to examine critical issues such as the
characteristic on-the-ground features of these projects and their social impacts on local communities. This article
aims to answer these questions by investigating the university-community engagement projects as implemented
in the Wulai area.
12:00 Service-Learning impacts on students and career development from graduates’ perspectives
Most research on S-L in Hong Kong has featured current undergraduates. This research is based on alumni. In the
quantitative part, we adopted a quasi-experimental design, comparing Lingnan University (LU) alumni with and
without S-L experience. LU alumni with S-L experience reported positive impacts on whole-person development,
civic engagement and career development, as compared with LU alumni without S-L experience. In the qualitative
part, LU alumni with S-L experience offered suggestions about how to improve S-L project quality.
Keywords: Service-Learning Impact, Graduate Attributes, Career Development, Comparison Study, Mixed
Methods Research
12:30 The Integrative Model of Undergraduates’ Learning and Service: An Example of a Service-learning
Course on Child Rights in NK University
Service-learning has been implemented by different means in mainland China. We provided a Service-Learning
course in our university’s curriculum system, built the teaching structure of social work teachers + Service-Learning
seed students + Service-Learning normal students, as well as practiced the teaching model of class teaching +
voluntary service design+ voluntary service practice + voluntary service presentation. We found that the course had
improved undergraduates’ understanding of child welfare, child service, and service model.
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11:30 A Preliminary Study of Improving Urban Public Spaces in Surabaya using the Sonic Perception of
Visually Impaired People
A series of research to improve urban public spaces to accommodate city dwellers inclusively was carried out. The
data was obtained using a soundscape method done by visually impaired people due to their sonic perception of
the surrounding. The data showed that visually impaired people have particular sonic dimensions of direction,
safety, and spatiality, which are not borne out by the normal-sighted people. This finding is a useful reference for
the improvement of urban public spaces.
Keywords: Soundscape, Sonic Perception, Urban Public Spaces, Visually Impaired People
12:00 How Service-Learning promotes intergenerational harmony: Case study of a Service-Learning project
in a science course
The Office of Service-Learning, Lingnan University partnered with the Discovery and Education Department,
Ocean Park (a theme park in Hong Kong) to develop a Service-Learning project to promote intergenerational
collaboration. Undergraduate and elder students attended lectures of a science course and applied this
knowledge to provide narration service to Ocean Park visitors while in intergenerational teams. This study
provides information on how a Service-Learning project can facilitate reciprocal learning between the young and
old and contribute to intergenerational harmony.
Students were asked to help in the assessment process for a Service-Learning Seminar during the 2018 academic
year. Students made up "Can-Do" lists after each class and then at the end of the semester for the lecture classes,
discussion sessions and activities. The lists the students made as well as other assessment tools will be shared in
this presentation.
12:00 Exploring the Effects of a Service-Learning Designation Process on Pedagogy and Course Outcomes
Universities have been instituting a process of formally designating courses in order to maintain high standards of
service-learning practice. An instrumental case study at a university in the United States explored the effects of
the service-learning designation process on pedagogy and course outcomes. The study has produced a set of best
practices in service-learning.
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11:30 An S-L Practitioner’s journey through the 3P Ecosystem - The value of Service-Learning in IHLs?
The aim of this paper is to illustrate the collaborations and interplay between the stakeholders across sectors for
students doing Service-Learning in IHLs. It is seen through the experience of an S-L practitioner’s career journey
and hopes to point to the purpose of Service-Learning in IHLs to actualise in the fruit of the graduates as citizens
playing active roles in their community for society and the environment we live in.
This interactive workshop will introduce attendees to the rationale, development, and potential uses of the
Service-Learning Quality Assessment Tool (SLQAT), a standardized tool for assessing the quality of credit-bearing,
academic service-learning courses. The tool was developed by a team of researchers from the United States as
part of a five-year national grant focused on advancing community engagement practices in higher education. In
the session, participants will be introduced to the tool, its structure, and potential uses. Following a brief overview
of the process and decisions that went into the development of the SLQAT, participants will use the tool and
accompanying protocols to assess the quality of a sample service-learning course. Participants will also have an
opportunity to provide feedback on the tool and share their thoughts on the overall scoring process, and the
overall utility and applicability of the tool in non-Western global settings.
Service-Learning (S-L) project interventions for community development commonly focus on helping partner
communities build their physical, natural, financial, and human capitals. However, it is seldom that building the
community’s social capital becomes an S-L project intervention. Hence, this workshop aims to equip S-L enthusiasts
with the basic knowledge and skills they need in order to help their partner communities build their social capital
by making use of the Sense of Community Index II.
According to virtually all definitions of Service-Learning, civic learning is an intentional learning objective for
students in Service-Learning courses. The purpose of this workshop is to share information about the nature of civic
learning, how to enhance its development when designing Service-Learning courses, and how to assess it. The
workshop will establish the important connections between conceptualization, implementation, and assessment,
based on what the participants want to emphasize in their Service-Learning courses.
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11:30 Aging simulation, empathy and communications workshop: Building an ecosystem for collaborative
good
Social isolation is on the rise and seniors in particular are at risk. As part of social responsibility, we must develop
strategic ways to enable senior engagement within the community. Participants will go through an introduction to
aging, an interactive session on aging simulation, and communication skills training. With this perspective,
participants will better understand how they can combat social isolation within their sphere of influence. We will
also illustrate the impact of trishaw rides on participants of Service-Learning.
Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals, Aging Simulation, Empathy And Communications, Impact Of Trishaw
Rides
11:30 Well (G)Rounded: In Search of Higher Educational Institutions’ Strategies in Community and Service-
Learning Engagement Vis-à-vis Community Development and Organization
Community development (CD) and community organizing (CO) can be tapped as closed and vital strategies for
community and Service-Learning engagement. CD is a tool of and for recognizing and building up peoples’ innate
potentials, capabilities, direction and participation toward change. CO as a closed conduit of community
development plays important role as it empowers and energizes community people and sectors that are powerless.
CO can assist and facilitate the community to set short and long term development.
11:30 Session: Sharing Our Lifelong Journeys for Social Responsibility---Where’s The Wisdom in Service-
Learning?
Service-Learning has existed in the United States for 50 years and the idea has existed in Asia for centuries. In this
session we hear about the SERVICE-LEARNING journeys of two of the FIELD’S US founders and also two young Asian
leaders. THEN ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE INVITED TO share THEIR stories to determine some common themes IN
SERVICE-LEARNING’S DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA.
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14:30 The Social Impact of the Service-Learning Components of the National Service Training Program in
the Philippines: The Case of the University of Santo Tomas
Service-Learning (S-L) in the Philippines has been institutionalized through the Civic Welfare Training Service
(CWTS) and Literacy Training Service (LTS). However, many studies about it have delved into student learning
experiences and the formation of civic responsibility, but only few tackled S-L social impacts. Thus, this study
addresses the gap by looking closely into the CWTS and LTS projects of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and
delves into the social impact of such projects on their partner communities.
Keywords: Civic Welfare Training Service, Literacy Training Service, National Service Training Program, Service-
Learning, Social Impact
Canberra Secondary School, Singapore, partnered the Grassroots Residential Committee, and various corporate
companies to meet the needs of community in caring for the elderly, disadvantaged children residing in the
neighbourhood near the school. Through this synergistic and sustainable approach, the school is able to provide an
authentic learning experience for youth and develop them to be community youth leaders; while the companies
are able to fulfil their corporate social responsibility.
15:30 Introductory Service-Learning Experience: Macau College Students in Ethnic Minority School of
Mountain Area in China
This paper describes how Macau students took social responsibility in China through service-learning project. It
aimed at raising children’s interest in learning. Results were: (1) increasing personal competence of teamwork spirits,
leadership and service skills; (2) perceptions about poverty issue and education in China rural and mountain areas;
and (3) commitment and social responsibility. It also provided an overview of how a living and learning community
was dedicated to community service to educate residents holistically.
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14:30 Exploring Cross-Cultural Overseas Service-Learning of International Students and Domestic students
in Madurai, India
Increasingly, colleges and universities across the Asia Pacific region are engaging in overseas Service-Learning
experience for enhanced cultural appreciation, social sensitization and critical thinking skills. This study explores the
cross-cultural engagement of the service-learning participants with the community along with the domestic
students (support team). The findings suggest effective growth results in the participants, domestic students and
the community. Results also indicate that programmatic elements may be as strong of a predictor of student
outcomes as for the community.
The emphasis of this article, which is to rethink the hierarchy (the relationship between the main body and object)
included in Service-Learning from the perspective of disability studies. Therefore, disability studies, which fairly
emphasizes on the order of main bodies and objects, could bring with it, theoretical contributions for reference.
Besides, it would enable local community empowerment and more fulfilled learning outcomes for the students if
we can apply the disability studies on the Service-Learning operation.
14:30 Connecting Generations: Service-Learning as a tool for building a foundation to gerontology nursing
This presentation will discuss the pilot study of the impact of the Service-Learning (S-L) engagement on our
students in the Gerontology and Community Nursing module. We discuss quantitative results from 3 of Kogan’s
Attitude Towards Older People sub-scales. Qualitative data using our students’ feedback and samples of their
assignment will also be shared. The presenting team will also discuss the challenges of mounting S-L and suggests
improvement to S-L-mapped pedagogy, and improved management of external stakeholders in future S-L
collaborations.
15:00 How to Use Trishaw Rides as a Means to Activate Service-Learning and the Impact to Date
CWA recently engaged in an impact study of our movement. Our program recognizes seniors as the primary
beneficiary with the pilots serving as a secondary beneficiary. We sought to understand the impact on both of these
beneficiaries. The impact presented here will focus on the youth pilot beneficiaries. To date, over 7,000 seniors have
experienced trishaw rides. Much of this success is attributed to the youth pilots choosing to engage with CWA for
their Service-Learning.
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14:30 Professional Advancement for Service-Learning Scholars: How to Get Published in Peer-Reviewed
Journals
The process of getting manuscripts accepted for publication in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals can be
daunting. Junior faculty members or early-career academic researchers sometimes experience immense challenge,
and concomitant frustration, in getting published. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the professional
advancement of service-learning scholars by offering suggestions and advice on how to get published in peer-
reviewed journals. Based on a review of pertinent journals, ten specific suggestions are offered.
This screening session will present short films created by students in attempt to tackle social issues faced by our
society. The inaugural SUSS Social Documentary Film Challenge is a collaboration with the U.S Embassy Singapore
and Rebelhouse Asia. This exciting challenge aims to nurture young people to utilize story-telling through films to
advocate for societal issues that they are passionate about to create social impact. In preparation for the challenge,
participants from university, pre-university, and the larger community undertake masterclasses with award winning
filmmaker Dr. Thomas Morgan.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to use two Human-Centered Design tools developed by Creative
Reaction Lab and Ideo.org. These tools are geared towards ensuring that the service provided to communities and
stakeholders are identified by them and not appropriated to them by the academic institutions.
14:30 CAPTSLAM
In this workshop, Dr. Tan Lai Yong and his team of volunteers from the College of Alice and Peter Tan (CAPT) will
share about using sports and interactive activity to connect with Singaporean teens from different socio-economic
sectors ; giving the undergrads precious insights into themselves, societies and the teenagers that they step up to
mentor. We then explore ways to bring this learning experience with us as we venture on overseas service trips with
the Singaporean teens.
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With the power of social media, the push to create video and audio content has never seen greater demand. Service-
Learning practitioners need to embrace new technology and enhance their skills in media production. High quality
recording equipment used to be expensive and difficult to operate. In the past year, affordable high quality
equipment is now available to everyone, to document and record interviews. The proposed workshop will expose
participants to these new microphones as well as recording techniques used by professionals to produce high
quality video and audio recordings.
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