Abstract
Limited research exists on the role service learning can play in helping students understand loss and grief. Through semi-structured interviews with students and instructors, online surveys, and course feedback, this qualitative case study examined the experiences of 15 university students in an outreach course working with grieving K-12 students. Students self-reported gaining greater intra- and interpersonal understanding and grief processing self-efficacy. Instructors emphasized intentionality and the intertwined nature of course experiences influencing meaning making.
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Wheat, Laura S.; Szepe, Arden; West, Nathan B.; and Gibbons, Melinda M.
(2019)
"Graduate and Undergraduate Student Development as a Result of Participation in a Grief Education Service Learning Course,"
Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education: Vol. 11:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholars.indianastate.edu/jcehe/vol11/iss2/3
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