Improvements in Cultural Competence Through Classroom and Local Cross-Cultural Service-Learning Activities

Denton, Jason M.; Esparza, Shandra; Fike, David S.; González, Jaime; Denton, Melinda Lundquist

doi:10.1097/00001416-201630020-00004

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“…For example, service learning reduces stereotypes [69,70]. Furthermore, service learning courses strengthen the cultural understanding and intercultural exchange [71][72][73]. Pless et al [74] show that significant learning took place in the area of cultural intelligence and intercultural competence as a result of a service learning approach.…”

Section: The Service Learning Approach and How It Can Contribute To Smentioning

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Learning Sustainability Entrepreneurship by Doing: Providing a Lecturer-Oriented Service Learning Framework

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Due to its growing practical relevance, sustainability entrepreneurship receives a high degree of academic attention. However, literature on how to educate sustainability entrepreneurs remains scarce. A promising didactical approach in this context is service learning. We ask if service learning is an effective way to educate sustainability entrepreneurs, and which framework conditions impact those educators. First, we draw on an established sustainable entrepreneurship capability framework and provide direct evidence from entrepreneurship educators about the effectiveness of service learning. Second, based on grounded theory, qualitative interviews with those educators reveal a framework composed of personal and institutional factors that they have to navigate when provide service learning. Our findings contribute to the interface of service learning and sustainability entrepreneurship by highlighting its effectiveness and the framework conditions for educators.

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Section: The Service Learning Approach and How It Can Contribute To Smentioning

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Learning Sustainability Entrepreneurship by Doing: Providing a Lecturer-Oriented Service Learning Framework

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“…[12] Attention to the potential gains from SL for students in several helping professions is apparent in current literature, from discussing the impact of SL on public health students, [7] and demonstration of improvements in measures of cultural competence in physical therapy students. [13] For nursing education, the recent literature has focused on identifying perceptions of student nurse needs related to the preparation for SL experience. [5,7] Those current studies about SL in other helping professions did not assess the extent of the advantages either systematically and/or empirically.…”

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Program level of nursing students and the achievement of intercultural sensitivity after service learning experiences

Thomas

Konieczny

2017

CNS

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Nursing students require education and experience to develop cultural competence. Cultural sensitivity is a step on the journey to cultural competence. Nursing curricula vary regarding when and how to promote cultural sensitivity. Service learning (SL), is an experiential pedagogical method, which provides the opportunity to communicate and interact with persons from various cultures. A descriptive pilot study was undertaken in order to examine whether the program level affects the intercultural sensitivity of nursing students exposed to SL. The original Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) was used to assess intercultural sensitivity. In a paired samples t test, two statements in the ISS relating to Interaction Confidence (p = .006) and Respect for Cultural Differences (p = .002) demonstrated junior level students had increased intercultural sensitivity scores when compared with sophomore level students' scores. This study may provide guidance to nursing faculty in determining at which level of students who will have maximal gain from SL.

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“…Civic-mindedness increases in response to continuous civic engagement through service learning (34,35). Consistent service learning can foster communication, cultural competency, and professional core values; it may simultaneously foster empathy through making connections to outside groups (11,37). The relationship between empathy and civic-mindedness has not previously been explored.…”

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Civic-Mindedness Sustains Empathy in a Cohort of Physical Therapy Students: A Pilot Cohort Study

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Black

Dole

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Journal of Patient Experience

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Background: Empathy is critical to patient-centered care and thus is a valued trait in graduate health-care students. The relationship between empathy and civic-mindedness in health professions has not previously been explored. Objectives: (a) To determine whether significant differences occurred on the Jefferson Scale for Empathy–Health Professions Student Version (JSE-HPS) and Civic-Minded Professional scale (CMP) and its subscales across the curriculum, (b) to explore a potential relationship between civic-mindedness and empathy in a cohort of graduate physical therapy (PT) students at regular intervals, and (c) to explore the predictive ability of civic-mindedness on empathy scores. Methods: This study was a convenience sample of a cohort of 48 PT students who completed both the JSE-HPS and the CMP at 4 points of a service-learning intensive curriculum. Statistical analysis included descriptive statistics, a Friedman’s analysis of variance with Wilcoxon signed-ranks post hoc testing, and Spearman correlations with stepwise linear regressions. Results: Statistically significant differences were not found for the JSE-HPS. Civic-Minded Professional scores increased across the curriculum. The JSE-HPS, the CMP, and various CMP subscales were significantly correlated. The JSE-HPS pretest scores were predictive of the year 1 and 2 posttest JSE-HPS scores. Conclusion: This study’s findings indicate that service-learning and the resulting development of civic-mindedness supports empathy. Programs could use JSE-HPS pretests to identify individual graduate students need for empathy mentorship upon program entrance or as one admission criterion.

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Improvements in Cultural Competence Through Classroom and Local Cross-Cultural Service-Learning Activities

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Learning Sustainability Entrepreneurship by Doing: Providing a Lecturer-Oriented Service Learning Framework

Learning Sustainability Entrepreneurship by Doing: Providing a Lecturer-Oriented Service Learning Framework

Program level of nursing students and the achievement of intercultural sensitivity after service learning experiences

Civic-Mindedness Sustains Empathy in a Cohort of Physical Therapy Students: A Pilot Cohort Study

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