Service-Learning and Faith Formation

This article
describes a qualitative research project that investigated undergraduate students' perceptions of the
impact of a short-term international service-learning course on their spiritual lives and faith
formation. Applying the insights of Sharon Parks and James Fowler as theorists in the field of
faith formation and Janet Eyler and Dwight Giles in the area of service-learning pedagogy,
journals, academic papers, and interviews from 38 students were analyzed using a computer-assisted
qualitative data analysis software program (NVivo). The article includes both psychosocial
and biblical-theological interpretation of the data. (author)