Successful service-learning programs : new models of excellence in higher education
- Title
- Successful service-learning programs : new models of excellence in higher education / edited by Edward Zlotkowski.
- Published by
- Bolton, MA : Anker Publishing Co., [1998]
- ©1998
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- Description
- xviii, 231, 81 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Service learning offers college students valuable learning experiences in authentic problem definition and problem solving in powerful applications of classroom learning. Contents include ten successful service-learning programs across a range of institution types; strategies, rationales, and priorities in developing successful programs; service learning and comprehensive institutional reform; the most common issues facing service-learning programs; development of a service-learning major; recognition of service learning within the promotion and tenure process; and practical sample documents for designing or enhancing service-learning programs.
- Alternative title
- Successful service learning programs
- Subject
- Service learning > United States
- Experiential learning > United States
- Student volunteers in social service > United States
- Community and college > United States
- Education, Higher > Curricula > United States
- Learning
- Education > Curricula
- Community Networks > United States
- Community-Institutional Relations > United States
- Students > United States
- Learning
- Social Work > United States
- Universities > United States
- Curriculum
- Apprentissage par le service communautaire > États-Unis
- Apprentissage expérientiel > États-Unis
- Étudiants bénévoles en service social > États-Unis
- Relations université-collectivité > États-Unis
- Enseignement supérieur > Programmes d'études > États-Unis
- Apprentissage
- Programmes d'études
- curricula
- Education > Curricula
- Community and college
- Education, Higher > Curricula
- Experiential learning
- Service learning
- Student volunteers in social service
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Instructional and educational works
- Instructional and educational works.
- Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
- Contents
- Introduction: a new model of excellence / Edward Zlotkowski -- On the shoulders of giants: building on a tradition of experiential education at Augsburg College / Garry Hesser -- Curriculum and community connection: the Center for Service-Learning at Bates College / James Carignan -- Redrawing the bottom line: The Bentley Service-Learning Project / Edward Zlotkowski -- Community college and service-learning: a natural at Brevard Community College / Roger K. Henry -- Rediscovering our heritage: community service and the historically black university / Beverly W. Jones -- Communal participatory action research & strategic academically based community service: the work of Penn's Center for Community Partnerships / Lee Benson & Ira Harkavy -- Comprehensive design of community service: new understanding, options, and vitality in student learning at Portland State University / Amy Driscoll -- Making a major commitment: public and community service at Providence College / Richard M. Battistoni -- Santa Clara University's Eastside Project: a pilgrimage toward our own humanity / William J. Wood -- We make the road by walking: building service-learning in and out of the curriculum at the University of Utah / Irene S. Fisher -- Appendices: A. Selected service-learning organization charts. B. Selected student service-learning opportunity overviews -- C. Infusing service-learning into a course: a timeline (Aubsburg College) -- D. President's corner: directions in learning / Donald Harward (Bates College) -- E. Selected service-learning projects in business (Bentley College) -- F. Selected administrative forms (Brevard Community College) -- G. Policies and procedures for the evaluation of faculty for tenure, promotion, and merit increases (Portland State University) -- H. PSP 101 syllabus: Introduction to service in democratic communities (Providence College) -- I. Educational philosophy at the Eastside Project / Tony Sholander (Santa Clara University) -- J. Educating the good citizen: service-learning in higher education (University of Utah).
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.