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Enduring Influences of Service-Learning on College Students' Identity Development
- Journal of College Student Development
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 45, Number 2, March/April 2004
- pp. 149-166
- 10.1353/csd.2004.0023
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This constructivist study explored service-learning as a contextual influence on identity development and self-authorship. Analysis of data from interviews with 8 participants, each of whom completed an undergraduate service-learning course 2 to 4 years prior to the study, suggested that an enduring influence of service-learning was construction of a more integrated identity evidenced by complexity in thinking about self and relationships with others, an openness to new ideas and experiences, and shifts in future commitments.