Service-Learning Essentials

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781118627945 Author(s): Barbara Jacoby Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2014 Edition: 1st Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pages: 352

Description: Service-Learning Essentials is the resource you need to help you develop high-quality service-learning experiences for college students. Written by one of the field's leading experts and sponsored by Campus Compact, the book is the definitive work on this high-impact educational practice. Service-learning has been identified by the Association of American Colleges and Universities as having been widely tested and shown to be beneficial to college students from a wide variety of backgrounds. Organized in an accessible question-and-answer format, the book responds clearly and completely to the most common questions and concerns about service-learning. Each chapter addresses issues related to individual practice as well as to the collective work of starting and developing a service-learning center or program, with examples drawn from a variety of disciplines, situations, and institutional types. The questions range from basic to advanced and the answers cover both the fundamentals and complexities of service-learning. Topics include: Determining what service-learning opportunities institutions should offerHow to engage students in critical reflection in academic courses and in cocurricular experiencesBest practices for developing and sustaining mutually beneficial campus-community partnershipsIntegrating service-learning into the curriculum in all disciplines and at all levels, as well as various areas of student life outside the classroomAssessing service-learning programs and outcomesThe dilemmas of service-learning in the context of power and privilegeThe future of service-learning in online and rapidly globalizing environments Service-learning has virtually limitless potential to enable colleges and universities to meet their goals for student learning while making unique contributio