Service-learning through a multidisciplinary lens

A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning. The papers are divided into sections on: dimensions of service-learning research; theoretical perspectives on service-learning; service-learning and the disciplines; the impacts on service-learning participants; and future directions.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Billig, Shelley H. (Editor), Furco, Andrew (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age, [2002]
SeriesAdvances in service-learning research.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918117585
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-556-1
Physical Description1 online resource (248 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Stretching to meet the challenge : improving the quality of research to improve the quality of service-learning / Janet Eyler
  • Establishing norms for scientific inquiry in service-learning / Andrew Furco and Shelley H. Billig
  • Probing and promoting teachers' thinking about service-learning : toward a theory of teacher development / Mary Sue Ammon
  • The sacred and profane : theorising knowledge reproduction processes in a service-learning curriculum / Janice McMillan
  • An interdisciplinary study of service-learning predictors and outcomes among college students / Pamela Steinke ... [et al.]
  • Service-learning and student writing : an investigation of effects / Adrian J. Wurr
  • Impact of service-learning on occupational therapy students' awareness and sense of responsibility toward community / Rhonda Waskiewicz
  • Community agency perspectives in higher education service-learning and volunteerism / Andrea Vernon and Lenoar Foster
  • Motivating environmentally responsible behavior through service-learning / Beth A. Covitt
  • Service-learning and academic outcomes in an undergraduate child development course / Kari Knutson Miller, Shu-Chen Yen, and Nicole Merino
  • Supporting a strategic service-learning research plan / Shelley H. Billig and Andrew Furco.