Publisher's Synopsis
Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Miscellaneous, language: English, abstract: This study was conducted to assess practices and challenges of community service at Woldia College of Teacher Education. Colleges are the main actors that deliver community service in Ethiopia. Community service is among the three pillars of the college's business along with teaching and research tasks. To achieve the research objective the researcher employed a qualitative descriptive case study design, to assess practices and challenges of community service at Woldia College. The data was collected using two instruments, a questionnaire and a semi structured interview. The semi structured interview and questionnaire were administered for purposely selected academic staff members of Woldia College. Twenty participants filled out the questionnaire and six participants were interviewed. Articles, books, and different reports were reviewed and used as sources of data. A thematic data analysis technique was employed to analyze the data. The results showed, that, though community service is rendered since 2001 at Woldia College, there are still limitations in adhering to conduct community service. These include shortage of budget, low level of college community linkage, less commitment of the staff and the low level of monitoring and evaluation. Based on the findings the following recommendations were made: the college should adapt strong monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to supervise community service project, community service needs to be declared as an obligatory task, budget ought to be allocated to run the programme, and community service must be part of school curriculum.
