books about: service-learning     books:       Learning through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning across the Disciplines1 review Christine M. Cress, Peter J. Collier, ... Stylus Publishing, 2005 Good business The book arrived on time in the right condition. great doing business! Thanks.             The Kid's Guide to Service Projects: Over 500 Service Ideas for Young People Who Want to Make a Difference ...6 reviews Barbara A. Lewis Free Spirit Publishing, 1995 Wonderful project ideas! This book was very helpful to me as I explained to my daughter about being a good person of service. The project ideas seem to relate well to the interest of kids and many can be done by the kids themselves. Other projects will require adult help. I think this book is very good. As we read through the book, my daughter had many questions, as well as suggestions and modifications for certain ...             Rethinking Service Learning: Embracing the Scholarship of Engagement within Higher Education Dan W. Butin Stylus Publishing, 2008 Since the 1980s service learning has become increasingly popular in higher education. Students, faculty, administrators, and the general public all have a strong sense that there should meaningful linkages between colleges and universities and their local and global communities. This book argues that despite such hopes, and the attention and funding it has attracted, service learning continues to be under-theorized, marginally embedded, and only ...             Where's the Learning in Service-Learning?2 reviews Janet Eyler, Dwight E. Giles Jossey-Bass, 1999 Cutting edge research on active learning pedagogy! For years, many educational researchers and practitioners have been looking for research that helps us understand how the engagement of students in service-learning activities - community service activities that are integrated with academic learning - affects students' learning. Based on the findings from two large service-learning research studies, the book presents a comprehensive ...             Service-Learning: Student's Guide & Journal Robert Max Schoenfeld Guide & Journal Publications, 2003 The "Service-Learning - Student?s Guide & Journal is a new book that will help your Middle and High School students organize their Service-Learning project, improve their thinking and writing skills and increase test scores. The Student?s Guide & Journals will aid your students in their pursuit of scholastic achievement while guiding and inspiring them to take their service to their community and the nation to a higher level of accomplishment. ...             Service-Learning in Higher Education: Critical Issues and Directions Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 Service-Learning in Higher Education critically examines the assumptions and implications of service-learning and offers exemplary models of practice and scholarship. It explores the limits and possibilities of teaching for social justice; it examines paramount issues of institutionalization; and it investigates issues of student resistance, student voice, and contested issues around race, class, and gender. Transformational models across the ...             The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, ...5 reviews Cathryn Berger Kaye Free Spirit Publishing, 2003 Excellent book for teachers and parents I have been reading your "The Complete Guide to Service Learning" the last few days. I am teaching teachers tomorrow about the 40 Developmental Assets and integrating Service Learning into their curriculum. Your book is great. It is thorough. It is user friendly and it has great information that is easy to digest. I especially like the "Across the Curriculum" sheets.             Building Partnerships for Service Learning1 review Jossey-Bass, 2003 Great academic resource For all practitioners looking to seek a great academic resource on developing levels of partnerships for service-learning, this is definitely your book! The wealth of information ranges from broadening your campus resources to learning how to make successful connections with your local community. For those interested in learning more about the dynamic use of theory-to-practice work in ...             Service-Learning in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)1 review Jacoby and Associates, and Associates Jossey-Bass, 1996 The Bible for service learning in higher education With service-learning finally gaining the national recognition that it deserves, this book provides a comprehensive look at the role of service learning in the world of higher education. Starting with the concept of service learning and expanding to the reasons for implementation and then concepts for implementation, it truly is a starting guide and lifelong reference for any higher education ...             Delivering Human Services: A Learning Approach to Practice (4th Edition)1 review Alexis A. Halley, Judy Kopp, ... Allyn & Bacon, 1997 would like to review!!! I would like to see the table of contents for this book - may order for my class. Please send ASAP if possible. Thank you. 7/1/98             Advancing Knowledge in Service-Learning: Research to Transform the Field (PB) (Advances in Service-Learning ... IAP - Information Age Publishing, 2006 The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learning research has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike have benefited from its dissemination and use the research to improve practice. The research does not simply inform educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a service-learning practice that can transform both individuals and institutions.             Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in the Public School Curriculum (Suny Series, ...1 review State University of New York Press, 1997 Great Resource This guide is a great resource for those in the educational, community or youth-leadership development industry. It offers practical solutions and real-case scenarios to integrating service-learning into the academic curriculum. This is a must have.             Multicultural Service Learning: Educating Teachers in Diverse Communities Marilynne Boyle Baise Teachers College Press, 2002 This in-depth look at the relationship between service learning and issues of diversity is a virtual blueprint for helping teachers (both pre- and in-service) to work better within their diverse classes and to bring increased understanding of diversity issues to all classrooms. Because there is only so much you can teach about culture, difference, and power in a university classroom, service learning is becoming an essential companion to ...             Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education (JB - Anker) Jossey-Bass, 1998 Successful service-learning programs offer college students valuable hands-on learning experiences as they partner with their communities in cooperative service efforts. In this inspiring collection of essays written by prominent leaders of service-learning programs, each chapter provides concrete examples of how successful service-learning programs can foster lifelong student commitments to community service and learning. By profiling ...             Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and ... Cambridge University Press, 2004 This volume explores the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions relevant to designing for and researching web-based communities to support the learning process. Coming from diverse academic backgrounds, the authors examine what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support educational processes. Taken as a collection, the chapters point to the challenges and complex tensions that ...             Practice Of Change: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Women's Studies (Service Learning in the ... Stylus Publishing, 2000 This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, 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 and lists an extensive bibliography of service-learning and women?s studies sources.             Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future (Jossey Bass Higher and ... Timothy K. Stanton, Nadinne I. Cruz Jossey-Bass, 1999 "A frank, thorough history and review of service-learning.... Service-Learning is a critical piece of the large service-learning movement. It is an ideal guide for new service-learning professionals, faculty members, academic or service administrators, and hopefully, public policymakers." --Pade Informer In this fascinating collection of stories, leaders in service-learning describe their early efforts to combine education with ...             The Measure of Service Learning: Research Scales to Assess Student Experiences Robert G. Bringle, Mindy A. Phillips, ... American Psychological Association (APA), 2003 The addition of service learning courses on college campuses is growing rapidly. However, practitioners will benefit from a richer (or more complete) knowledge base that firmly establishes service learning as an effective pedagogy for students' academic learning, personal development, and civic participation. The Measure of Service Learning will be a valuable resource for program evaluators and researchers who want to inform the practice of ...             Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self2 reviews Robert A. Rhoads State University of New York Press, 1997 Excellent reminder of the need for caring in today's society A majority of us have all heard or are familiar with the well-versed cliche, "change is a good thing." Certainly this statement holds merit in varied scenarios such as changing one's wardrobe, profession, household or the like. 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