Research Opportunities
The steadily growing interest and support for community service-learning (CSL) in higher education in Canada, offers numerous opportunities for innovative research and publication. Some potential research topics, exploring the implementation of CSL in Canadian colleges and universities, include:
- The impact of CSL on students’ personal, academic and/or career development
- The impact of CSL on students’ sense of citizenship and social responsibility
- The impact of CSL on retention in higher education
- The scholarship of CSL
- Uniquely Canadian models of CSL in higher education
- The integration of community service and academics
- CSL as transformative education
- Reflection as a tool that integrates service and learning
- Characteristics of effective university-community partnerships
- The benefits of CSL to community organizations and communities
- Impact of CSL on the teaching environment
- Evaluation of CSL initiatives
- The role of CSL in helping institutions achieve its mission
- Best practices in Canada