In:Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners: Making connections and building identities
Kelly Lowther Pereira
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 18] 2018
► pp. 121–138
Chapter 6Community voices
Published online: 6 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.18.c6
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.18.c6
Abstract
This chapter presents qualitative analysis of interviews with community partners and liaisons. It discusses community partner and liaison perspectives of service-learners’ engagement and the impacts of community service-learning on local communities from their viewpoint. This chapter importantly gives communities a too-often overlooked voice in the context of community service-learning. Community partners and liaisons offer guidance for developing stronger partnerships, additional insights into the connections between community members and students, challenges in community service-learning practice, and strategies to overcome them.
Article outline
- Methodology
- Community partners and liaisons
- The Center for New North Carolinians
- The Latino Community Coalition of Guilford
- Casa Azul
- The Oakwood Forest Community Center
- The Office of Leadership and Service-Learning
- Building mutually beneficial relationships between communities, faculty, and students
- The role and impact of the service-learner
- Cultural and linguistic connections among SHL service-learners and community members
- Long-term community engagement
- Knowledge, skills, and leadership
- Challenges and issues in community service-learning practice
- Conclusions
