Service-Learning Essentials - Questions, Answers, and Lessons Learned

Service-Learning Essentials is the resource you need to help you develop high-quality service-learning experiences for college students. Written by one of the field's leading experts and sponsored by Campus Compact, the book is the definitive work on this high-impact educational practice. Service-learning has been identified by the Association of American Colleges and Universities as having been widely tested and shown to be beneficial to college students from a wide variety of backgrounds.
 
Organized in an accessible question-and-answer format, the book responds clearly and completely to the most common questions and concerns about service-learning. Each chapter addresses issues related to individual practice as well as to the collective work of starting and developing a service-learning center or program, with examples drawn from a variety of disciplines, situations, and institutional types. The questions range from basic to advanced and the answers cover both the fundamentals and complexities of service-learning. Topics include:
* Determining what service-learning opportunities institutions should offer
* How to engage students in critical reflection in academic courses and in cocurricular experiences
* Best practices for developing and sustaining mutually beneficial campus-community partnerships
* Integrating service-learning into the curriculum in all disciplines and at all levels, as well as various areas of student life outside the classroom
* Assessing service-learning programs and outcomes
* The dilemmas of service-learning in the context of power and privilege
* The future of service-learning in online and rapidly globalizing environments
 
Service-learning has virtually limitless potential to enable colleges and universities to meet their goals for student learning while making unique contributions to addressing unmet local, national, and global needs. However, in order to realize these benefits, service-learning must be thoughtfully designed and carefully implemented. This easy-to-use volume contains everything faculty, leaders, and staff members need to know about service-learning to enhance communities, improve higher education institutions, and educate the next generation of citizens, scholars, and leaders.

List of contents

Figures and Exhibits ix
 
Dedication x
 
Foreword xi
 
Preface xv
 
Acknowledgments xxii
 
About the Author xxiv
 
About Campus Compact xxvi
 
Chapter 1: Introduction to Service-Learning 1
 
1.1 What is service-learning? 1
 
1.2 What are the theoretical foundations of service-learning? 5
 
1.3 What else can we call service-learning if that term does not work for us? 10
 
1.4 What are the benefits of service-learning? 11
 
1.5 What is the history of service-learning? 14
 
1.6 How widespread is service-learning? 18
 
1.7 What should an institution offer in the way of service-learning? 21
 
1.8 How does service-learning vary by institutional type? 23
 
Conclusion 25
 
Chapter 2: Understanding and Facilitating Critical Reflection 26
 
2.1 What is critical reflection? 26
 
2.2 What are the forms of reflection? 29
 
2.3 What are the steps in designing and implementing critical reflection? 31
 
2.4 How can critical reflection empower students to move beyond direct service to other forms of civic and political engagement? 42
 
2.5 How can I make reflection work in my discipline? 45
 
2.6 How does reflection work in cocurricular service-learning, especially one-time or short-term experiences? 48
 
Conclusion 50
 
Contents
 
Chapter 3: Developing and Sustaining Campus-Community Partnerships for Service-Learning 51
 
3.1 What are the definition and basic principles of campus-community partnerships for service-learning? 52
 
3.2 What are the different types of service-learning partnerships? 56
 
3.3 What are the steps to developing a service-learning partnership? 58
 
3.4 What are the logistical issues involved in service-learning partnerships? 63
 
3.5 What are the best practices for developing and sustaining partnerships? 65
 
3.6 What infrastructure should an institution have in place for developing and sustaining campus-community partnerships? 69
 
3.7 Should campus-community partnerships include corporate partners? How? 71
 
3.8 What are the key issues for international partnerships for service-learning? 73
 
3.9 How can small-scale partnerships for service-learning lead to broader and deeper institutional engagement? 75
 
Conclusion 79
 
Chapter 4: Integrating Service-Learning into the Curriculum 80
 
4.1 When is service-learning the right pedagogy for a course? 80
 
4.2 How does service-learning work in my discipline? 82
 
4.3 Is service-learning academically rigorous? 86
 
4.4 What are the different models for integrating service-learning into the curriculum? 88
 
4.5 How do I start developing a service-learning course? 100
 
4.6 How should I assess and grade service-learning? 103
 
4.7 What are the unique elements of a service-learning syllabus? 106
 
4.8 What are the logistical issues involved in teaching a service-learning course? 109
 
4.9 How does service-learning work in an online or blended course? 111
 
4.10 Should service-learning courses be formally designated? 113
 
4.11 What does it take to motivate and support faculty to practice service-learning? 115
 
4.12 How can service-learning be valued in the faculty review, promotion, and tenure process? 117
 
4.13 How can service-learning lead to the broad and deep engagement of an entire academic department? 119
 
Conclusion 121
 
Chapter 5: Designing and Implementing Cocurricular Service-Learning 122
 
5.1 What is cocurricular service-learning? 122
 
5.2 What is the relationship between serv

About the author

Barbara Jacoby is faculty associate for Leadership & Community Service-Learning and affiliate associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Summary

Service-Learning Essentials is the resource you need to help you develop high-quality service-learning experiences for college students. Written by one of the field's leading experts and sponsored by Campus Compact, the book is the definitive work on this high-impact educational practice.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Jacoby, Barbara (University of Maryland) Jacoby, Barbara C. Jacoby, Jacoby Barbara
• Assisted by: Howard Jeffrey (Foreword)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2014
• EAN: 9781118627945
• ISBN: 978-1-118-62794-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Hochschule, Education, Bildungswesen, Hochschulen / Dienstleistungen f. Studenten, Student Affairs & Development (Higher Education)