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Evolving Learning: Educators’ Inner Experiences of Engaging in Service-Learning with Undergraduates

Meixner, Cara
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1236710502

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2008, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
Evolving Learning: Educators’ Inner Experiences of Engaging in Service-Learning with Undergraduates is an exploratory, qualitative study of faculty members’ learning, growth, and development in service-learning contexts. Through two, interwoven forms of constructivist grounded theory – situational mapping and dimensional analysis – this dissertation brought voice to a once ‘private’ perspective, making explicit what all is happening as participants make meaning of their experiences engaging in service-learning with college students. A three-phased series of recursive, comparative interviews and concurrent analysis resulted in the development of a grounded theory best captured by a core, organizing perspective – evolving learning. This perspective is comprised of five intersecting dimensions: (1) bearing witness, (2) navigating, (3) reconciling expectations, (4) resolving and reorienting, and (5) locating self in humanity. Both novel and exploratory, this dissertation adds extensively to extant literature, contributing significantly to our understanding of how educators adapt, transform, or make meaning of their own engagement. Also, the study unveils a number of opportunities for qualitative and mixed methods inquiry on faculty teaching, learning, engagement, and development.
Alan E. Guskin, PhD (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Holloway, PhD (Committee Member)
Eugene Rice, PhD (Committee Member)
Devorah Lieberman, PhD (Other)
277 p.
Developmental Psychology; Education; Educational Psychology; Educational Sociology; Educational Theory; Higher Education; Sociology; Teaching
service-learning; faculty development; higher education; undergraduate education; teaching; grounded theory; situational analysis; dimensional analysis; educational leadership; transformative learning; faculty experience

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  • Meixner, C. (2008). Evolving Learning: Educators’ Inner Experiences of Engaging in Service-Learning with Undergraduates [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1236710502

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Meixner, Cara. Evolving Learning: Educators’ Inner Experiences of Engaging in Service-Learning with Undergraduates. 2008. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1236710502.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Meixner, Cara. "Evolving Learning: Educators’ Inner Experiences of Engaging in Service-Learning with Undergraduates." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1236710502

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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