The Service Leadership Initiative at Lingnan University

2016

To meet the demand for service leaders in today’s service-oriented economies, The Hong Kong Institute of Service Leadership and Management (HKI-SLAM) proposed the service leadership model advocating that effective service leadership is a function of moral character, leadership competencies, and a caring disposition (E=MC2). A 3-credit service learning subject entitled “Service Leadership through Serving Children and Families with Special Needs” was developed at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University to enable students to learn, apply, and reflect on the essential qualities of effective service leaders through developing and implementing service programs to adolescents, children and families at the Society of Boys’ Centre and Heep Hong Society. 145 students participated in this subject across two semesters in the 2013-14 academic year. This paper introduces the subject and reports the results based on subjective outcome evaluation and feedback of students from agency staffs. Student re...

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2019

2019

Partnership with student leaders is an evolving practice that engages peer leaders to work with service learning faculty, administrators, and community partners to administer the service learning experience. This study identifies ways in which service learning associates differ from their undergraduate peers by comparing their responses to questions about goals, values, and careers on the HERI College Senior Survey to those of their undergraduate peers. The study uses a second survey, of former service learning associates one to five years after graduation, to assess the long-term impact that former student leaders attribute to their experience. This study finds that student leaders differ significantly from their peers at graduation in values and career goals, and those values do not change one to five years after graduation. Alumni report that the peer leadership program shaped their career pathways, and that the experience was fundamental to their college career.

2017

International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2014

Proceedings Frontiers in Education 35th Annual Conference, 2005