Education: Service-Learning

This volume represents a breakthrough discussion of the research issues surrounding innovative pedagogies.

Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education: students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed & help organize. However, what are the benefits for the communities involved? This volume explores the social impact of service learning.

This book presents not only a historical perspective, but it also debates the theories and issues surrounding the conflicts inherent in those theories.

With increasing focus on excellence in research and teaching, the service role of the individual academic is often neglected. This book calls for greater recognition of this important aspect of academic life, highlighting the importance of mentoring, committee work and pastoral care in the daily running of universities.

Written by a former college instructor with extensive service learning experience, this brief book will help students understand the value of service learning, find a appropriate placement, and have a more rewarding field experience.

This issue examines service learning-the emerging form of higher education bringing together students, teachers, and community partners in ways that foster the student's responsible citizenship and promotes a lifelong involvement in civic and social issues. It also demonstrates how institutions can create effective service-learning programs that couple academic work in the classroom with students' service to an organization in the field.

This groundbreaking book: emphasizes the importance of service learning to nursing education provides an introduction to the principles and concepts of service learning presents effective service learning activities currently employed in nursing curricula.

As a new generation of practitioners engages with service learning, at a time when higher education faces questions about learning outcomes and costs, and in the context of such issues as globalization and the environment, this book poses important questions about practice, institutional sustainability, and future directions.

The Civically Engaged Reader assembles more than forty provocative and diverse readings that range across literature, philosophy, and religion.

Public Work and the Academy provides academic leaders with a resource to increase their fluency with and ability to lead service-learning and civic engagement efforts on their campuses, with their peers, and throughout their institutions in order to shape the future of higher education.

This edited collection, the first of its kind, marries the two fastest-growing movements in higher education: service-learning and eLearning.

This volume applies the service-learning pedagogical approach to the social work curriculum.