Students’ Expectations and Motivation for Service-Learning in Public Relations

Muturi, Nancy; An, Soontae; Mwangi, Samuel Chege

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“…The findings are somewhat consistent with the findings of Lattimore, et al [20], Liou [23] and Ibrahim [32]. Silverman [33] also reported that students who are involved in public relations campaign course were civic oriented and responsible in community problem and learnt important public relations campaign skills.…”

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“…Most professionals believe global model of Public Relations education must be embedded in the higher education which will propel efforts toward globalization. To develop comprehensive public relations curricula, multidisciplinary approach was drawn from the experience of journalism, business, psychology, and communication professional [20]. This is integral to modern higher education.…”

Section: Youth Involvement In Community-based Service-learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Globalization through Community-Based Projects: Enhancing Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills in Undergraduates

Lee¹,

Gan²,

Tan³

2015

IJSSH

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Abstract-Though the world is becoming increasingly globalized, has the education evolved to prepare youth to become world citizens with the necessary skills and competencies to meet these challenges? Altogether 301 students from the Psychology and Public Relations Departments involved in community-based projects were purposively surveyed using Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills questionnaire. Results showed that overall the mean scores of the Civic Attitude and Competence Skills are moderate. The results reveal no significant difference between the Psychology students and Public Relation students in the mean scores of Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills except for subscales Civic Action, Interpersonal & Problem-Solving Skills, Social Justice, and Diversity. The author concludes that it is important to enable youth to participate in developing a sense of self, appreciation of cultural diversity, social justice and building civic actions towards globalization awareness.

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confidence: 99%

Globalization through Community-Based Projects: Enhancing Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills in Undergraduates

Lee¹,

Gan²,

Tan³

2015

IJSSH

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“…Others are motivated by an altruistic desire to better their community (Muturi, An, & Mwangi, 2013). A range of 5-10 students applied each semester.…”

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Stress reduction in a high stress population: A service-learning project

Brenchley

Donahue

2017

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Psychology students delivered stress and coping workshops to homeless adolescent mothers as part of a college service-learning project. In this vulnerable and underserved population, stress reduction is critical. Service-learning was used as an avenue to enhance student learning and growth while helping meet this need in our community. The psychology students developed deeper learning, professional skills, and social awareness. The adolescent mothers developed stress reduction skills that they were able to successfully implement. Challenges and recommendations for the implementation of similar service-learning projects are discussed.Keywords: service-learning, action teaching, stress reduction, homeless, adolescent mothers, health psychology, social justice Non-Technical SummaryStudents in a Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine course completed an action teaching assignment for which they taught workshops on stress and coping to homeless pregnant and parenting teens in a temporary shelter. Students visited the shelter weekly for four weeks. The primary objective of the assignment was to develop two interactive workshops, one on stress research and one on coping research, which would be tailored to the needs of the residents.The goal of the project was to deepen student learning about health psychology through the application of research findings and to help local women who were going through challenging times in their lives.Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2017, Vol. 5(2), 463-476, doi:10.5964/jspp.v5i2.813 Received: 2017-06-21. Accepted: 2017-08-28. Published (VoR): 2017 Handling Editor: Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA *Corresponding author at: Department of Psychology, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, 14618, USA. E-mail: kmcclure@sjfc.edu This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. jspp.psychopen.eu | 2195-3325 Project Background and Description Journal of Social and Political Psychology Course ContentStress and coping theories are commonly taught in Health Psychology courses. Stress can be very harmful for mental and physical health, especially when stress is chronic (Kemeny, 2003;Segerstrom & Miller, 2004). Stress compromises many systems of the body, leading to higher likelihood of disease and shortened lifespan (Mathur et al., 2016;Segerstrom & Miller, 2004). However, coping effectively with stress can serve to reduce the likelihood of these adverse effects. The important role of stress and coping in the human experience warrants considerable course coverage in Health Psychology courses.A popular technique for teaching stress and coping theories is to have students apply these theories to their own lives. According to Bloom's taxonomy, application of concepts leads to a higher level of lear...

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“…In order to examine the research questions against the background of existing literature on PR education (Al-Kandari & Gaither, 2011; Barry, 2005;Bowen, 2010;Hajoš, 2017;Muturi, An, & Mwangi, 2013;René Benecke & Bezuidenhout, 2011;Stacks et al, 1999), this study inquired into Libyan professionals' and senior PR students' perceptions using mixed methods (questionnaire and face-to-face interview). The reason for using these methods was to get a wide range of different responses, to be able to produce generalisable results from students' perceptions (survey), and to provide us with a more accurate interpretation of reality (interview).…”

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Libyan PR Participants’ Perceptions of and Motivations for Studying PR in Libya

Elareshi¹,

Bajnaid

2019

Ro. J. Comm. & PR

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Public relations in Libya is very much a new phenomenon, even compared with other Arab countries, although there are PR practices growing in tandem with some large local businesses and organisations. Based on the assumption that PR continues to play a vital role in communities and businesses, it is important to reconsider and evaluate its practices regularly, especially in terms of teaching and skills (including its curriculum). This study explores the quality of the educational PR curriculum, training and taught courses in Libyan universities by focusing on the perceptions of Libyan PR’s academic professionals and senior PR students, covering roughly more than a quarter-century of teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It examines how university PR students are taught, what strategies and modules are applied and how professionals and students evaluate the PR curriculum and their practical advantages. Based on a survey (N=367) and interview (N=15) approach, the overall findings revealed that the PR curriculum needed to be updated and that PR should be recognised as a practical, not a theoretical, subject and should have its own union helping to provide more training programmes in an updated setting.

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Students’ Expectations and Motivation for Service-Learning in Public Relations

Cited by 22 publications

References 35 publications

Globalization through Community-Based Projects: Enhancing Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills in Undergraduates

Globalization through Community-Based Projects: Enhancing Civic Attitudes and Competence Skills in Undergraduates

Stress reduction in a high stress population: A service-learning project

Libyan PR Participants’ Perceptions of and Motivations for Studying PR in Libya

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