Experiences of migrant children in Mainland China participating in a service-learning program: A metaphor analysis.
The pedagogy of service-learning has been widely adopted in educational settings due to its multidimensional benefits for different stakeholders. However, existing empirical studies have primarily focused on the impact of this pedagogy on service providers (i.e., students), while the experiences of...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Child & Adolescent Health Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 117 - 128 |
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
2024
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