Service-Learning Through School-University Partnerships: Undergraduate Student Volunteers' Motivations and Experiences
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Claudia Lucia Galindo, Antoinette J. Waller, Nicole Mejia, Susan Sonnenschein (22 April, 2022). Service-Learning Through School-University Partnerships: Undergraduate Student Volunteers' Motivations and Experiences. Paper presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Retrieved 05 July 2023, from the AERA Online Paper Repository. https://www.aera.net/Publications/Online-Paper-Repository/AERA-Online-Paper-Repository-Viewer/ID/1888823.
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School‐university partnerships is one major community engagement strategy used to improve learning opportunities for underserved students (poor, Black, and Brown students). As part of its commitment to local communities and based on teachers’ input, Light University (pseudonym) implemented a service learning program in two urban elementary schools to improve language arts instruction and students’ outcomes in the early grades. Undergraduate students served as literacy volunteers who worked with teachers and students. Drawing on a multisite longitudinal case study, the objective of this paper is to share undergraduate students’ motivations for and experiences with volunteering in this school‐university partnership program. Findings from this paper provide important information for the effective and sustainable implementation of service‐learning oriented partnerships.