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The Practice of Change:
Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Women's
Studies This volume explores the important lessons
women's history and women's studies hold for the broader
service-learning community and the critical opportunity
for women's studies to reconnect with its activist past.
The book includes essays with real examples of
service-learning projects in women's studies sources.
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Acting Locally:
Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in
Environmental Studies This book discusses the
pervasive use of service-learning in environmental
studies programs and explains why it often is a required
part of the environmental studies curriculum.
Contributors from a wide range of college and university
environmental studies programs discuss the benefits and
challenges these program provide and the consequent
natural fit between environmental studies and
service-learning.
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Life, Learning, and Community:
Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Biology Although
there are obvious applications for service-learning in
such fields as nursing and teacher education,
incorporating it into natural science courses has not
always seemed practical to science instructors. This
book not only provides strong arguments for using
service-learning in biology courses but also gives
real-life examples of how it has been successfully used
in biology curricula.
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Learning with the Community: Concepts
and Models for Service-Learning in Teacher Education
This practical guide is intended for faculty and
service-learning directors, combining the how-to
information and rigorous intellectual framework that
teachers seek. What distinguishes this volume is
that the contributors are writing for their peers.
They discuss how service-learning can be implemented
within teacher education and what teacher education
contributes to the pedagogy of service-learning. The
books offers theoretical background and pratical
pedagogical chapters, describes the design,
implementation and outcomes of teacher service-learning
programs, annotated bibliographies, program descriptions
and course syllabi.
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Writing the Community: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Composition The book
discusses the microevolution in college-level
composition through service-learning. The essays
in this volume show why service-learning and
communication are a natural pairing and give a
background on the relationship between service-learning
and communication with maps to suggest where it should
go in the future.
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Experiencing Citizenship: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Political Science
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Creating Community-Responsive
Physicians: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in
Medical Education
This
volume shows how service-learning is not only a strategy
for preparing community-responsive and competent health
physicians, but also for fostering citizenship and
changing the relationship between communities and
medical schools.
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Working for the Common Good: Concepts
and Models for Service-Learning in Management
Service-learning prepares business students to see new
dimensions of relevance of their coursework. It provides
structures for students to establish caring
relationships with others that validate their humanity.
Service-learning is an important way for management
faculty to help their departments, schools, and
universities to better fulfill their missions and
visions.
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From the Studio to the Streets:
Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Planning and
Architecture
Architecture should be the ideal field of study for
applying to service learning since it requires mastery
of theoretical concepts for direct application to human
situations and needs. Though architecture has long
fostered learning by doing, it is only recently that the
field’s hands-on aspects have been subjected to more
systematic appraisal. This book is the first book to
make a formal connection between service learning
pedagogy and architectural practice, and to address the
related issues, both professional and ethical.
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With Service in Mind: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Psychology
This volume reflects the growing interest among
psychology educators in service-learning from the
perspectives of research, practice, and teaching. The
first part of the book addresses how psychological
theory, research, and practice bear on collaborating
with communities, while the second half shows how
service-learning can be effectively integrated into a
variety of psychology courses to increase the breadth
and depth of student learning.
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From Cloister to Commons: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Religious Studies
This volume, like its series companions, goes beyond
simple "how-to" to discuss the implementation of
service-learning within religious studies and what that
discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service
learning. The volume contains both theoretical and
pedagogical essays by scholar-teachers in religious
studies education, plus a resource guide.
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Hospitality with a Heart: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Lodging, Foodservice, and
Tourism
This volume takes a look at the programs and practices
of hospitality educators who have expertly woven
service-learning into their curricula. This book
constitutes a useful introduction for both newcomers to
service-learning and for experienced teachers and
presents much practical advice for practitioners and
students at all levels of readiness.
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Teaching for Justice: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Peace Studies
This book shows how both peace studies and
service-learning have been developing new ideas of how
social learning takes place as a community process in
conflict situations and what the dynamics of peace
building are. The process has created a new niche in
academia for preparing students to become social change
agents. The enthusiasm of the contributors in this book
gives the reader a new vision of what is possible on
college campuses in community-based peace and
service-learning at a time when there is a critical need
for peace-building skills.
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Projects that Matter: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Engineering
This book concentrates on how service-learning can be
successfully incorporated in engineering programs, a
discipline to which is it relatively new. Contributors
to the volume are experienced in using service-learning
and address issues of concern to engineering educators.
As one peer reviewer commented, "The audience for this
[book] is the engineering education community--that
community will expect practical applications of the
theory that will lead to improved engineering
education."
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Cultivating the Sociological
Imagination: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in
Sociology
The
editors and authors of this book bring their own
sociological wisdom and imagination to demonstrate how
service-learning can effectively be used in the
sociology curricula and in class exercises. Discussions
in the introduction and chapters, along with appended
syllabi, provide ways in which such programs can be
adopted in undergraduate sociology courses.
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Construyendo Puetes (Building
Bridges): Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in
Spanish
This book provides a sound approach to the many
conceptual and methodological changes that have taken
place in the teaching of languages and cultures. By
reviewing the accomplishments of Spanish teachers and
what theory informs us, the editors have compiled a
series of suggestions to help students and teachers
"connect with communities in order to facilitate
learning with each other rather than about each other".
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Voices of Strong Democracy: Concepts
and Models for Service-Learning in Communication Studies
This book focuses on incorporating service-learning in
communication, one of the fastest growing disciplines in
higher education. The first part provides a strong
argument on why service-learning should be part of the
communication curriculum, while the second part
dramatically demonstrates the ways in which
service-learning has a natural affinity for the
communication discipline.
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Connecting Past and Present: Concepts
and Models for Service-Learning in History
The question that animates this volume is: Why connect
service-learning to history courses? The contributors
answer that question in different ways and illustrate
and highlight a diversity of historical approaches and
interpretations. All agree, however, that they do their
jobs better as teachers (and in some cases as
researchers) by engaging their students in
service-learning. An interesting read with a compelling
case for the importance of history and how
service-learning can improve the historian’s craft.
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Beyond the Tower: Concepts and Models
for Service-Learning in Philosophy
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Learning by Doing: Concepts and Models
for Service-Learning in Accounting
This volume focuses on curriculum reform in accounting
programs based on goals identified by accounting
educators and describes specific implementations across
the accounting curriculum. A practical guide with real
solutions for both accounting educators and students.
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Caring and Community: Concepts and
Models for Service-Learning in Nursing
Although service-learning and nursing would seem an
obvious combination, nursing, as a profession within
academic, research, and health-care organizations has
only recently begun to embrace the true spirit of the
practice. The chapters in this book are rich with
information, both theoretical and experiential, that
describes ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate
service-learning as a methodology into many diverse
settings and with communities of interest.
