Start Date
6-6-2013 9:30 AM
End Date
6-6-2013 10:40 AM
Description
There is a topic, that how to combine the function of social service with the task of developing manpower, being more and more concerned throughout higher education in mainland china. By means of consistent exploring, a team from Chinese Youth University for Political Sciences established a multi-profit model of service learning, which base on mentoring program. This model focus on inviting particular field where direct social service and education happens organically: institutions for higher education engage in community changes, which shown as promoting social inclusion, by grouping students and professors into practice; and students, by performance in one-to-one mentoring and cooperate-learning, subsequently comprehend the knowledge, achieve self-reflection and obtain in-depth recognition of society. This article indicated a finding that the migrant children, for who students mobilized, have affirmative impact especially in integrating into urban life. And the better qualitative relationship acquired between mentors and children, the more contribution would be on arising protective factors at the same time. Teachers and community workers, joining with students in the process of learning, facilitate further understanding on the problem of migrant population under circumstance of urbanization. And they experience together the inherent and external transform of migrant children. Nowadays, migrate population issue being emphasized on a social inclusion’s view while urbanization growing in intensity. We suggest that universities and colleges should utilize their advantage in human resource to promote wellbeing of migrant children. The mentoring based “university, community and student” multi-profit model of service learning, in a widespread field, should be introduced to a harmonious society.
Recommended Citation
Hou, X., & Chen, X. (2013, June). Service-learning does work at Sacramento State University!: The 65th A “University-Community-Student” multi-profit model of service learning basing on mentoring program. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
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A “University-Community-Student” multi-profit model of service learning basing on mentoring program
There is a topic, that how to combine the function of social service with the task of developing manpower, being more and more concerned throughout higher education in mainland china. By means of consistent exploring, a team from Chinese Youth University for Political Sciences established a multi-profit model of service learning, which base on mentoring program. This model focus on inviting particular field where direct social service and education happens organically: institutions for higher education engage in community changes, which shown as promoting social inclusion, by grouping students and professors into practice; and students, by performance in one-to-one mentoring and cooperate-learning, subsequently comprehend the knowledge, achieve self-reflection and obtain in-depth recognition of society. This article indicated a finding that the migrant children, for who students mobilized, have affirmative impact especially in integrating into urban life. And the better qualitative relationship acquired between mentors and children, the more contribution would be on arising protective factors at the same time. Teachers and community workers, joining with students in the process of learning, facilitate further understanding on the problem of migrant population under circumstance of urbanization. And they experience together the inherent and external transform of migrant children. Nowadays, migrate population issue being emphasized on a social inclusion’s view while urbanization growing in intensity. We suggest that universities and colleges should utilize their advantage in human resource to promote wellbeing of migrant children. The mentoring based “university, community and student” multi-profit model of service learning, in a widespread field, should be introduced to a harmonious society.