An Overlooked Lens: Applying Structuration Theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Theories of Space to Service-Learning

Although service-learning is clearly a social phenomenon involving interactions between people in social environments, little scholarly attention has been given to the ways in which sociological theories illuminate how service-learning is enacted and sustained in schools.  This conceptual article takes a fresh (and perhaps overdue) look at academic service-learning (both K-12 and higher education) through three sociological lenses:  Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory, Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory, and Henri Lefebvre’s theories on the production of space.  The article describes each theory as it relates to the understanding, initiation, implementation, institutionalization, and study of service-learning.  The theories highlight important aspects of academic service-learning, including areas that other theories have missed such as how service-learning actors must exploit enabling aspects of school structures and spaces to overcome constraints, the importance of non-human agents in service-learning programs, and challenges service-learning advocates face in reconfiguring school spaces for service-learning.  The author also describes and examines limits of each theory as well as implications for research and practice

Florida Learn & Serve 1995-96: What Were the Outcomes?

This article is taken from a report on the second year of research on quantitative outcomes of K-12 students who participated in service learning projects in Florida in 1995-96. The study involved 29,000 students in 107 subgrants. It illustrates what one state has been able to accomplish

A study of the industrial psychology, incorporated, factored aptitude series job tests program scores and job turnover and job proficiency at transit, incorporated

The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to determine the usefulness of a hiring testing battery and its particular tests as used by Transit, Incorporated, in predicting turnover. (2) to determine the usefulness of a hiring testing battery and its particular tests as used by Transit, Incorporated, in predicting which employees would be good employees in terms of job proficiency

Florida Learn & Serve 1995-96: What Were the Outcomes?

This article is taken from a report on the second year of research on quantitative outcomes of K-12 students who participated in service learning projects in Florida in 1995-96. The study involved 29,000 students in 107 subgrants. It illustrates what one state has been able to accomplish