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This look at the relationship between service learning and issues of diversity is a virtual blueprint for helping teachers to work better within their diverse classes and to bring increased understanding to diversity issues of all classrooms. This volume shows how the author collaborated with community partners and preservice teachers to jointly construct the service learning supplement to a multicultural education course--from the bottom up.
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This program highlights students doing volunteers work and engaged in service learning outside the United States - helping disabled children in southern France, teaching rural indigenous children high in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, working in a hospital for women and children in rural Kenya, giving assistance in a Masai clinic while interning with a Masai healer, working with abandoned children in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and many other volunteers...
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"Institutions of higher learning around the nation have embraced the concept of student civic engagement as part of their curricula, a movement that has spurred administrators in various fields to initiate programs as part of their disciplines. In response, sign language interpreting educators are attempting to devise service-learning programs aimed at Deaf communities. Except for a smattering of journal articles, however, they have had no primary...
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Fourteen American academics contribute 11 chapters providing an overview of service-learning issues and a debate format for the theoretical positions on the topic. Coverage includes an historical overview of the issues related to service-learning, justifications and critiques of each of the three theoretical models (philanthropic, civic engagement,
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"Service learning is an experiential learning pedagogy that enables students to integrate their study of economics in the classroom with service activities in their communities. It can enhance both economic literacy and the quality of our communities by helping to make economics more accessible to an increasingly diverse student body, increasing citizenship skills, and improving the relationship between colleges and universities and their communities....
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It is clear that service-learning has the potential to yield tremendous benefits to students, communities, and institutions of higher education. Increased student learning has been well documented. As communities gain new energy to meet their needs and greater capacity to capitalize on their assets, service-learning enables higher education to fulfill its civic responsibility. When service-learning lives up to its potential to lead colleges and universities...
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"As the number of service learning courses and their requirements increase, it is essential for academic librarians to partner with faculty and administration to include lifelong research skills components. This crucial book provides insights and case studies that will help you do just that"--
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Community Based Research (CBR) refers to collaborative investigation by academics and non-academic community members that fosters positive change on a local level. Despite recent trends towards engaged scholarship, few publications demonstrate how to effectively integrate CBR into academic course work or take advantage of its potential for achieving community change. Community Based Research: Teaching for Community Impact fills these gaps by providing:...
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"This book presents informed current thinking on the topic of community service learning programs for youth offering both veteran and new voices in the field. Combining theory and research with descriptions of innovative programs and specific recommendations for program design, the authors argue for an approach to service learning that engages youth not only in helping others but in critical reflection and the democratic pursuit of social reform....
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"In this fascinating collection of stories, leaders in service-learning describe their early efforts to combine education with social action. Their reflections help construct a pedagogy of service-learning to inspire newcomers and guide program development. The authors assess pioneering experiences and recommend future policy and practice, emphasizing the critical need to preserve an activist commitment as programs become increasingly institutionalized....
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This program examines the role college students play in helping solve community problems as part of their regular curriculum. Shot on location on six urban campuses across the country, the program looks at how a broad range of discipline and interdisciplinary program help engage student in service learning. It also examines whether service learning leads to greater engagement in civic processes and the extent to which it addresses political apathy...
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While thousands of students, teachers, and community partners are realizing the benefits of this experiential form of education, many others still have questions, particularly, "What exactly is service-learning?" and "How can I do it effectively?" This volume answers both questions, beginning with a brief overview and then presenting a series of chapters on getting started, promoting reflection, and otherwise making service-learning work effectively...
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"There are by now over fifty academic programs - majors, minors and certificate programs- focused on community engagement at institutions of higher education across the United States, with dozens more in development. This volume offers a set of emerging best practices and an articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding programs in community engagement at their respective institutions"--...
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