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Training to Teach: Exploring the Feasibility of Service-Learning Projects to Prepare Undergraduate Learners to Be Community Health Educators
| العنوان: | Training to Teach: Exploring the Feasibility of Service-Learning Projects to Prepare Undergraduate Learners to Be Community Health Educators |
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| المؤلفون: | Melanie A. Gerdes, Anna Marie Jones, Deborah S. Fetter, Emily S. Sklar, Kristen Stapleton, Lyndsey D. Ruiz, Rachel E. Scherr, Gretchen L. George |
| المصدر: | Trends in Higher Education, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 363-373 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Education (General) LCC:Theory and practice of education |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | service-learning project, undergraduate teaching, cross-age teaching, virtual internship, community of practice, professional development model, Education (General), L7-991, Theory and practice of education, LB5-3640 |
| الوصف: | Undergraduate learners are ideal candidates for participation in service-learning projects, which allow learners to apply course concepts in a community setting where both the university and community benefit. In pre-health fields, undergraduate students can serve as teachers for concepts such as food literacy. This study examined whether a rigorous virtual professional development model would improve self-efficacy of undergraduate participants to teach food literacy to adolescents. A purposive sampling of participants (n = 12) from two universities participated in a yearlong virtual service-learning project and a community of practice professional development model. Tasks included virtual lesson modeling and virtual development of short, learner-centered activities for an adolescent food literacy curriculum. Informal interviews were conducted at the end of the academic year. Participants reported that the virtual service-learning project connected to their coursework, improved their confidence and professional communication, and was a safe space for growing their teaching practice. Findings were not generalizable due to the small n and purposive sampling, and participants were unable to teach adolescents during the pandemic. The service-learning project may be transferable to local health departments as there is a demonstrated need of alternative implementation models for health education interventions. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2813-4346 |
| العلاقة: | https://www.mdpi.com/2813-4346/2/2/21Test; https://doaj.org/toc/2813-4346Test |
| DOI: | 10.3390/higheredu2020021 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/780fc90ffa02433d8176d59f0344c2b7Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.780fc90ffa02433d8176d59f0344c2b7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 28134346 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/higheredu2020021 |