Exploring the Impact of Innovative Pedagogy on Faculty Work: The Case of Service Learning

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of innovative approaches to teaching including academic service-learning. Six themes were identified that
describe how service-learning pedagogy affected faculty teaching and learning:
more meaningful engagement, deeper connections and relationships with
students, enhanced knowledge of student learning processes, increased use of
constructivist teaching, improved communication of theoretical concepts, and
greater involvement in a community of teachers and learners.
These themes provided the foundation for the overall theory of the impact of
service-learning pedagogy on faculty work. The domains of self, students, and
community provided opportunities for increased knowledge of each with the
integration of all three constituting the change in faculty knowledge and practice
deemed the "engaged scholar."