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Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Across Academic Disciplines and Cultural Communities Edition: 2
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Abstract: This substantially expanded new edition of this widely-used and acclaimed text maintains the objectives and tenets of the first. It is designed to help students understand and reflect on their community service experiences both as individuals and as citizens of communities in need of their compassionate expertise. It is designed to assist faculty in facilitating student development of compassionate expertise through the context of service in applying disciplinary knowledge to community issues and challenges. In sum, the book is about how to make academic sense of civic service in preparing for roles as future citizen leaders.
Each chapter has been developed to be read and reviewed, in sequence, over the term of a service-learning course. Students in a semester course might read just one chapter each week, while those in a quarter-term course might need to read one to two chapters per week. The chapters are intentionally short, averaging 8 to 14 pages, so they do not interfere with other course content reading.
This edition presents four new chapters on Mentoring, Leadership, Becoming a Change Agent, and Short-Term Immersive and Global Service-Learning experiences. The authors have also revised the original chapters to more fully address issues of social justice, privilege/power, diversity, intercultural communication, and technology; have added more disciplinary examples; incorporated additional academic content for understanding service-learning issues (e.g., attribution theory); and cover issues related to students with disabilities, and international students.
This text is a student-friendly, self-directed guide to service-learning that:
• Develops the skills needed to succeed
• Clearly links service-learning to the learning goals of the course
• Combines self-study and peer-study workbook formats with activities that can be incorporated in class, to give teachers maximum flexibility in structuring their service-learning courses
• Promotes independent and collaborative learning
• Equally suitable for courses of a few weeks’ or a few months’ duration
• Shows students how to assess progress and communicate end-results
• Written for students participating in service learning as a class, but also suitable for students working individually on a project. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Figures
Exercises
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Why a Book about Learning through Serving? (Christine M. Cress)
Part One: Understanding the Learning Through Serving Proposition
1. What is Service-Learning?(Christine M. Cress)
2. Building and Maintaining Community Partnership (Vicki L. Reitenauer, Amy Spring, Kevin Kecskes, Seanna M. Kerrigan, Christine M. Cress, and Peter J. Collier)
3. Becoming Community: Moving From I to We (Vicki L. Reitenauer)
Part Two: Learning the Landscape, Learning the Language
4. Groups Are Fun, Groups Are Not Fun: Teamwork for the Common Good (Peter J. Collier and Janelle D. Voegele)
5 Creating Cultural Connections: Navigating Difference, Investigating Power, Unpacking Privilege (Vicki L. Reitenauer, Christine M. Cress, and Janet Bennett)
Part Three: Facilitating Learning and Meaning - Making Inside and Outside the Classroom
6. Reflection in Action: The Learning–Doing Relationship (Peter J. Collier and Dilafruz R. Williams)
7. Mentoring: Relationship Building for Empowerment (Peter J. Collier)
Mentoring
8. Leadership and Service-Learning: Leveraging Change (Peter J. Collier)
9. Failure with the Best of Intensions: When Things Go Wrong (Janelle D. Voegele and Devorah Lieberman)
10. Expanding Horizons: New Views of Course Concepts (Christine M. Cress and Judy Patton)
Part Four: Assessing the Engagement Effort
11. Beyond a Grade: Are We Making a Difference? The Benefits and Challenges of Evaluating Learning and Serving (Sherril B. Gelmon, Susan Agre-Kippenhan, and Christine M. Cress)
12. Global and Immersive Service-Learning: What You Need to Know as You Go (Christine M. Cress, Stephanie T. Stokamer, Thomas J. Van Cleave, Chithra Edwin)
13. Start Anywhere, Follow It Everywhere: Agents of Change (Vicki Reitenauer)
14. Looking Back, Look Forward: Where Do You Go from Here? (Peter J. Collier and Vicki L. Reitenauer)
About the Authors
Index
Click Here for Book Review
Abstract: This substantially expanded new edition of this widely-used and acclaimed text maintains the objectives and tenets of the first. It is designed to help students understand and reflect on their community service experiences both as individuals and as citizens of communities in need of their compassionate expertise. It is designed to assist faculty in facilitating student development of compassionate expertise through the context of service in applying disciplinary knowledge to community issues and challenges. In sum, the book is about how to make academic sense of civic service in preparing for roles as future citizen leaders.
Each chapter has been developed to be read and reviewed, in sequence, over the term of a service-learning course. Students in a semester course might read just one chapter each week, while those in a quarter-term course might need to read one to two chapters per week. The chapters are intentionally short, averaging 8 to 14 pages, so they do not interfere with other course content reading.
This edition presents four new chapters on Mentoring, Leadership, Becoming a Change Agent, and Short-Term Immersive and Global Service-Learning experiences. The authors have also revised the original chapters to more fully address issues of social justice, privilege/power, diversity, intercultural communication, and technology; have added more disciplinary examples; incorporated additional academic content for understanding service-learning issues (e.g., attribution theory); and cover issues related to students with disabilities, and international students.
This text is a student-friendly, self-directed guide to service-learning that:
• Develops the skills needed to succeed
• Clearly links service-learning to the learning goals of the course
• Combines self-study and peer-study workbook formats with activities that can be incorporated in class, to give teachers maximum flexibility in structuring their service-learning courses
• Promotes independent and collaborative learning
• Equally suitable for courses of a few weeks’ or a few months’ duration
• Shows students how to assess progress and communicate end-results
• Written for students participating in service learning as a class, but also suitable for students working individually on a project. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Figures
Exercises
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Why a Book about Learning through Serving? (Christine M. Cress)
Part One: Understanding the Learning Through Serving Proposition
1. What is Service-Learning?(Christine M. Cress)
2. Building and Maintaining Community Partnership (Vicki L. Reitenauer, Amy Spring, Kevin Kecskes, Seanna M. Kerrigan, Christine M. Cress, and Peter J. Collier)
3. Becoming Community: Moving From I to We (Vicki L. Reitenauer)
Part Two: Learning the Landscape, Learning the Language
4. Groups Are Fun, Groups Are Not Fun: Teamwork for the Common Good (Peter J. Collier and Janelle D. Voegele)
5 Creating Cultural Connections: Navigating Difference, Investigating Power, Unpacking Privilege (Vicki L. Reitenauer, Christine M. Cress, and Janet Bennett)
Part Three: Facilitating Learning and Meaning - Making Inside and Outside the Classroom
6. Reflection in Action: The Learning–Doing Relationship (Peter J. Collier and Dilafruz R. Williams)
7. Mentoring: Relationship Building for Empowerment (Peter J. Collier)
Mentoring
8. Leadership and Service-Learning: Leveraging Change (Peter J. Collier)
9. Failure with the Best of Intensions: When Things Go Wrong (Janelle D. Voegele and Devorah Lieberman)
10. Expanding Horizons: New Views of Course Concepts (Christine M. Cress and Judy Patton)
Part Four: Assessing the Engagement Effort
11. Beyond a Grade: Are We Making a Difference? The Benefits and Challenges of Evaluating Learning and Serving (Sherril B. Gelmon, Susan Agre-Kippenhan, and Christine M. Cress)
12. Global and Immersive Service-Learning: What You Need to Know as You Go (Christine M. Cress, Stephanie T. Stokamer, Thomas J. Van Cleave, Chithra Edwin)
13. Start Anywhere, Follow It Everywhere: Agents of Change (Vicki Reitenauer)
14. Looking Back, Look Forward: Where Do You Go from Here? (Peter J. Collier and Vicki L. Reitenauer)
About the Authors
Index