Write The Community The Effects Of Service-learning Participation On Seven University Creative Writing Students

Author

• Lauren Hodges, University of Central Florida

Keywords

College students -- Case studies, Creative writing (Higher education) -- Case studies, Service learning -- Case studies, Transformative learning -- Case studies

Abstract

Research in higher education service-learning suggests that there is a positive relationship between service-learning and student learning outcomes as well as a positive relationship between students‘ interactions with the ―real world‖ through service-learning and the effects of these experiences on deepening students‘ knowledge in their disciplines. Recent studies have established this positive relationship between service-learning and university composition and literature students. However, aside from the existing literature on service-learning and composition and writing, there has been virtually no examination of the relationship between service-learning and creative writing. The purpose of this study was to investigate how seven creative writing students experienced the process of creative writing differently after engaging in service-learning in a creative writing course at a large, urban university in the southeastern United States and to determine if students experienced a transformative learning experience as indicated by Mezirow‘s (2000) transformational learning theory. This research study employed an instrumental narrative case study design to determine how seven university creative writing students experienced the process of creative writing differently after taking a creative writing course with an optional service-learning component. The results of the study indicated that service-learning invoked a transformative learning experience in these seven higher education creative writing students, each in different ways—some in their writing processes and writing content, some in how they reflected upon themselves and their writing in relation to the ―outside world,‖ and some in their sense of civic duty

Notes

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Graduation Date

2011

Semester

Summer

Advisor

Kaplan, Jeffrey

Degree

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

College

College of Education

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0003988

URL

http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003988

Language

English

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)

Subjects

Dissertations, Academic -- Education, Education -- Dissertations, Academic

STARS Citation

Hodges, Lauren, "Write The Community The Effects Of Service-learning Participation On Seven University Creative Writing Students" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1939.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1939