Service-Learning, Diversity, and Preservice Teachers: Researching the Benefits and Challenges of Service-Learning for Multicultural Education

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: Service-Learning: Why, Where, and How We Realize and Report Benefits

Abstract

Using surveys and follow-up interview data, the proposed presentation evaluates the influence of a service learning experience from a multicultural education course for preservice teachers. Our research examined how a required 20-hour field experience is utilized by different professors as part of a professional disposition assessment to pre-screen students for admission into the teaching program, as well as how the field experience impacts teacher candidates’ beliefs and cultural competency.

Authors

• Michael Takafor Ndemanu, Ball State University

• David J. Roof, Ball State University