Service–Learning in Undergraduate Nursing Education: Where is the Reflection?

Service–Learning is recognized as a valuable pedagogy that involves experiential learning, reflection, and reciprocal learning. Reflection is a critical component because it assists students to develop critical thinking and social awareness as they reflect upon their experiential learning with community partners. Although there is a proliferation of literature about service–learning, upon closer examination, it is apparent that some authors do not place emphasis on reflection when reporting on service–learning projects. This begs the question, “Where is the reflection?” The purpose of this article is to provide an overview and describe misrepresentations and exemplars of service–learning. After providing an overview of service–learning, examples of how service–learning is misrepresented in the literature are discussed. Exemplars of service–learning are also cited. Calling attention to how service–learning is reported in the literature will increase awareness about the need to critically evaluate articles for evidence of reflection

Service Learning in Undergraduate Nursing Education: Strategies to Facilitate Meaningful Reflection

Service learning is recognized as a valuable pedagogy involving experiential learning, reflection, and reciprocal learning. Students develop critical thinking and social awareness by using the crucial activity of reflecting upon their experiential learning with community partners. The purpose of this paper is to demystify the process of reflection by identifying best practices to enhance reflection and offering suggestions for grading. By understanding “the what” and “the how” of reflection, educators can implement service learning experiences designed to include the essential component of reflection. Strategies for facilitating meaningful reflection are described including descriptions of what students should reflect upon and how to initiate reflection through writing, reading, doing, and telling. Grading rubrics are suggested to facilitate evaluation of student reflection. When properly implemented, service learning encourages students to be good citizens of the world. By using best practices associated with reflection, students can be challenged to think critically about the world and how their service can achieve community goals

Population, health, and nutrition : fiscal 1991 sector review

The theme of this year's annual sector review blends two special topics: poverty alleviation and the development of management and institutional capacity. Based on a review of project experience, both within and outside of the population, health and nutrition (PHN) sector, this report distills lessons that should assist task managers in the design and implementation of interventions to develop poverty-sensitive management and institutional capacity in the PHN sector. The Bank's ability to strengthen institutions, especially those needed to alleviate poverty, are constrained by the number and the skills mix of PHN staff, by the absence of standards and guidelines for analyzing and addressing institutional and management issues, and by too little time to spend on institutional and management issues. Therefore, the sector review recommends : a) improving the sector staff not only in numbers but in access to guidelines and training; b) revising Bank priorities and practices to ensure that enough time is spent on supervision and on upstream diagnostic work; c) grounding PHN policies in a macroeconomic and multisectoral framework oriented toward growth with poverty reduction, together with a sound strategy for building institutions and the capacity to implement and manage policy; and d) seeking more creative use of Bank instruments through a review and assessment of the best use of lending instruments for PHN sector interventions.Banks&Banking Reform,Poverty Assessment,Urban Services to the Poor,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Economics&Finance

Reducing inequalities in school exclusion: learning from good practice

The research reported here was commissioned by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner’s to inform the second year of their on-going School Exclusions Inquiry. The first year of the inquiry culminated in the publication of the report They Never Give Up On You which included an analysis of recent national data on recorded exclusions from school that provided stark evidence of inequality for particular groups. Concerns about the disproportionate impact of school exclusion on specific groups of young people are not new and there have previously been attempts at policy level to reduce inequalities. However, the relationship between exclusion and other educational and social processes is complex and these inequalities persist. The over-arching objective of the research was therefore to identify characteristics of good practice in addressing inequalities in school exclusions, with particular attention to the following factors: Free School Meals; gender; ethnicity; and Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Adolescence

Two wheeler driver with the child eyes, naively perverted thoughts, innocently sadistic mind, where have your fleeing hop-skip-jumps taken your perception-deception? Are your shooed feet pud-muddling or ONE-two-threeing ? And eyes, are you questioningly circling the sky or contemplating a running nylon? Choosing can loose time emancipate desires and perpetuate career-playing Otherwise you are chained to maturity..