工科系大学におけるサービスラーニング教育 : 工科系の特質を生かした社会貢献活動実践型授業科目

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When preparing university engineering students for the outside world, it is not only important to fill their heads withacademic book knowledge but to also help students learn the proper applications of that knowledge in order to benefithumankind. To understand just what can benefit humankind, students need to interact with various people and discoverfirsthand the problems that confront modern society. With this in mind, Shonan Institute of Technology (SIT) has developeda community service program that gets students out into the community helping people solve their problems. Thiseducational program is called "Service Learning," which basically means "learning through public service." This paperdescribes the details of that program at SIT.Since 1996, SIT has developed courses to help support practical learning through community service. "Theory of Volunteer"and "Community Service" are a few of those support courses. In the 2006 curriculum, the university started itsoriginal "Service Learning" program of community service. These programs include technological programs of communityservice, for example, PC support and making various tools for the handicapped, among many others. Students involvedin our program learn the various needs of the community and build important problem-solving skills, whilelearning engineering ethics. In any community, when young people are active, engaged, and contributing to society,everyone benefits at many levels.
2007-03-18