Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Giles, Dwight.

Description

1. xxx, 315 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. As academic service-learning continues to grow rapidly, practitioners are discovering a pressing need for solid empirical research about learning outcomes. Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? helps define learning expectations, presents data about learning, and links program characteristics with learning outcomes. It is the first book to explore the experience of service-learning as a valid learning activity.

Series statement

1. The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

Uniform title

1. Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

Alternative title

1. Where is the learning in service-learning?

Subject

1. Gosset, William Sealy
2. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
3. Service learning > United States
4. College students > United States
5. Learning
6. Universities and colleges
7. Student volunteers in social service > United States
8. Community-Institutional Relations
9. Learning
10. Students
11. Universities
12. Volunteers
13. students
14. Universities and colleges
15. Student volunteers in social service
16. College students
17. Service learning
18. Lernen
19. Sozialpraktikum
20. Student
21. United States
22. USA

Contents

1. Identifying the learning outcomes of service -- Personal and interpersonal development -- Understanding and applying knowledge -- Engagement, curiosity, and reflective practice -- Critical thinking -- Perspective transformation -- Citizenship -- Program characteristics of effective service-learning -- Strengthening the role of service in the college curriculum.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-299) and index.