Content with Institutions : Vanderbilt

Project Dialogue

Project Dialogue is a variety of programs designed to encourage public moral discourse in the context of academic excellence. It includes four main objectives: -encourage students to reflect on their opinions and their role as citizens at Vanderbilt -to give students the opportunity to consider others’ views in a safe environment -to instill in students a broader understanding of the connections between knowing and doing and between truth and goodness -to empower students to be leaders and to reflect civic virtues Website

Studying the impact of service-learning

Service-learning seeks to impact not just what students write on a test, but what they value and what they believe dispositions that are a challenge to collect and measure. At Vanderbilt University, service-learning researchers Janet Eyler and Dwight Giles use a collection of socio-psychological scales such as personal efficacy, tolerance, and locus of control to measure values that service-learning purports to instill in students. By surveying students and correlating data to external factors, they seek to isolate the impact of service-learning on citizenship, social justice, civic responsibility and similar dispositions. Among their findings: service-learning appears to have particular effect on…