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Student experiences of service learning through a community outreach project

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  • Michelle Mey
  • Amanda Werner
  • Bridget de Villiers

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This article explores the challenges experienced and value derived by human resource management students at the Nelson Mandela University, South Africa from participating in a community service project. The study is descriptive and qualitative in nature, providing a thematic and narrative summary of student experiences in a community service project as presented in portfolios of evidence. The study reveals that community service projects are a valuable tool for students to experience real life, practise desired graduate attributes and other competencies nurtured in the classroom, and deepen their socio-economic awareness. For academics they provide insight into student experiences and highlights areas in which students need support, guidance, or mentoring in a service-learning project of this nature.

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  • Michelle Mey & Amanda Werner & Bridget de Villiers, 2018. "Student experiences of service learning through a community outreach project," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(6), pages 764-774, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:28:y:2018:i:6:p:764-774
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1473340
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