Publication: Empowering Students with Special Needs through Service-Learning

• Karayan, Silva

This paper reports on a qualitative and quantitative study
in which the service learning projects of college students
in special education teacher training were analyzed using
elements of quality service learning as criteria. The study
used the "portraiture" method of analysis, which attempts to
combine empirical and aesthetic description and allow for
convergence of narrative and analysis. Qualitative analysis
of each student's service learning project resulted in
classification as based on either the "deficit" model, the
"empowerment" model, or the "reciprocal empowerment" model.