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Community-based learning and social support in the midwestern district high school internship program: relative influences on seniors' occupational and citizenship engagement orientations

Bennett, Jeffrey V.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1164659045

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2006, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Policy and Leadership.
This study examines the efforts of the large, urban Midwestern School District to provide socially productive community-based learning experiences for all of its high school students through community service and work-based internships. Many argue that student participation in community service and work-based learning addresses many occupational and citizenship disengagement risks faced by high school students today especially in higher poverty and traditionally low academically-achieving urban contexts. The principal hypothesis, informed by ecological systems theory, is that social support from adult supervisors and mentors will positively affect students’ occupational and citizenship engagement orientations over and above the influence that programmatic experiences provide. The researcher conceptualizes social support as having a mentor, receiving information about future plans, encouragement, and written and verbal performance feedback in the course of their program activities. Occupational and citizenship engagement orientations are those attitudes or intentions demonstrated by students at the end of their senior year to pursue a career pathway and to engage in future political and civic behaviors. Findings from this study suggest that programmatic experiences alone are insufficient to produce the desired outcomes unless social support for student efforts accompanies them. The Internship Program of the Midwestern District exemplifies the phenomenon of a well-intended educational reform policy that faltered without the necessary formal structures, planning, and knowledge to adequately accomplish their objectives. Increasing capacity for implementing a mandatory community-based learning policy requires adequate systems of social support.
Helen Marks (Advisor)
183 p.
Education, Administration
High School Reform; District Implementation Policy; Social Support; Community-Based Learning; Supportive Learning Environments; Community Partnerships; Education for Democratic Citizenship

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  • Bennett, J. V. (2006). Community-based learning and social support in the midwestern district high school internship program: relative influences on seniors' occupational and citizenship engagement orientations [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1164659045

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bennett, Jeffrey. Community-based learning and social support in the midwestern district high school internship program: relative influences on seniors' occupational and citizenship engagement orientations. 2006. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1164659045.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bennett, Jeffrey. "Community-based learning and social support in the midwestern district high school internship program: relative influences on seniors' occupational and citizenship engagement orientations." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1164659045

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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