| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系在職進修碩士班 === 95 === The purpose of the study was to explore the implementation of the service-learning program in College Student Labor Education and its effects on students’ learning. The research questions included
1. What are the difficulties and problems of program implementation from the students and the working staff in the organization？
2. Are there any effects on students’ learning in knowledge and skills of labor education, self-efficacy, interpersonal respect, multicultural tolerance, and the social issue concerns？
3. Are there any suggestions to the college which labor education course combined with Service-Learning program？
The study was conducted by both pretest-posttest quasi- design experiment
and qualitative data analysis from September 2005 to January 2006. The Labor Education Service-Leaning program was designed as an instrument. The participants for this study were the freshmen in the Department of Senior Citizen Service Management at Ming Hsin University of Science and Technology all of them took the college Labor education course and were divided into two groups: 49 were in the experimental group and 46 were in the comparison group. The Scale for Service-Learning of Labor Education in College Students was employed to test the students’ changes in ‘’knowledge and skills of labor education’’, “self-efficacy”, “interpersonal respect” and “multicultural tolerance”, and the “social issue concerns”. In addition, qualitative date collected from focus-group with the service-provider students, feedback survey from service receivers, reflection journals from providers and the researcher, and the observation journals of the research.
The findings of the research are as follows
1.The learning effects of Service-Learning Department on the participants:
The results of this study showed no statistics significant effects on knowledge and skills of “Labor education”, “self-efficacy”, “interpersonal respect and multicultural tolerance”, and “social issue concerns” between experimental and comparison group. However, the qualitative date indicates the experimental group students have lots of learning in confidence, sense of responsibility, interpersonal tolerance, and the abilities to communicate with others.
2.The feedback from the service organization includes
Service-Learning is a helpful and empowered program for the organization; The service receivers gain great improvement in quality of livelihood; and the working staff in the organization also indicates proper release of working pressure.
3.For the role of the researcher
It suggests the researcher needs to be a participating observer, teacher and friend, professional adviser, outcome evaluator , record keeper, supporter, and companion person through the service. The reflections of the researcher for the Service-Learning program are that the study provides the implementation of Labor Education with a new direction, which combined with Service-Learning. The new program can eliminate the criticism imposed on the Labor Education as merely a cleaning program, and give it a brand new definition.
Based on the findings, the recommendations for practice on the college labor education’s service-learning program, and further research are presented.
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