Service-learning : the essence of the pedagogy

The Advances in Service-Learning Research book series was established to initiate the publication of a set of comprehensive research volumes that would present and discuss a wide range of issues in this broad field called service-learning. Service-learning is a multifaceted pedagogy that crosses all...

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Other Authors Furco, Andrew (Editor), Billig, Shelley (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., 2002.
SeriesAdvances in service-learning research.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781068182310
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-958-3
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 286 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Community service and service-learning in America / Ivor Pritchard
  • Is service-learning really better than community service? / Andrew Furco
  • Civil society, social trust, and the implementation of service-learning / James C. Toole
  • An application of developmental-contextualism to service-learning / Elizabeth Hill Warter and Jennifer M. Grossman
  • Using program theory to build and evaluate service-learning programs / Donald B. Yarbrough and Rahima C. Wade
  • Theories guiding outcomes for action research for service-learning / Jean J. Schensul, Marlene Berg, and Monica Brase
  • Beyond surveys / Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles Jr.
  • Methodological challenges and potential solutions for the incorporation of sound community-based research into service-learning / Luciana Lagana and Maureen S. Rubin
  • Service-learning as qualitative research / Robert Shumer
  • Impact of service-learning on civic attitudes and behaviors of middle and high school youth / Alan Melchior and Lawrence Neil Bailis
  • Service-learning in teacher education / Susan Root, Jane Callahan, and Jungsywan Sepanski
  • Adoption, implementation, and sustainability of K-12 service-learning / Shelley H. Billig.