Description
This substantially expanded new edition of this widely-used and acclaimed text maintains the objectives and tenets of the first. It is designed to help students understand and reflect on their community service experiences both as individuals and as citizens of communities in need of their compassionate expertise. It is designed to assist faculty in facilitating student development of compassionate expertise through the context of service in applying disciplinary knowledge to community issues and challenges. In sum, the book is about how to make academic sense of civic service in preparing for roles as future citizen leaders.
Each chapter has been developed to be read and reviewed, in sequence, over the term of a service-learning course. Students in a semester course might read just one chapter each week, while those in a quarter-term course might need to read one to two chapters per week. The chapters are intentionally short, averaging 8 to 14 pages, so they do not interfere with other course content reading.
This edition presents four new chapters on Mentoring, Leadership, Becoming a Change Agent, and Short-Term Immersive and Global Service-Learning experiences. The authors have also revised the original chapters to more fully address issues of social justice, privilege/power, diversity, intercultural communication, and technology; have added more disciplinary examples; incorporated additional academic content for understanding service-learning issues (e.g., attribution theory); and cover issues related to students with disabilities, and international students.
This text is a student-friendly, self-directed guide to service-learning that:
- Develops the skills needed to succeed
- Clearly links service-learning to the learning goals of the course
- Combines self-study and peer-study workbook formats with activities that can be incorporated in class, to give teachers maximum flexibility in structuring their service-learning courses
- Promotes independent and collaborative learning
- Equally suitable for courses of a few weeks’ or a few months’ duration
- Shows students how to assess progress and communicate end-results
- Written for students participating in service learning as a class, but also suitable for students working individually on a project.
Instructor's Manual
This Instructor Manual discusses the following six key areas for aligning your course with use of Learning through Serving, whether you teach a senior-level high school class, freshman studies course, or a college capstone class:
1. Course and syllabus design
2. Community-partner collaboration
3. Creating class community
4. Strategic teaching techniques
5. Developing intercultural competence
6. Impact assessment
Table of Contents
FIGURES
EXERCISES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: Why a Book about Learning through Serving? - Christine M. Cress
PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE LEARNING-THROUGH-SERVING PROPOSITION
1. WHAT IS SERVICE-LEARNING? – Christine M. Cress
2. BUILDING AND MAINTAINING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS – Vicki L. Reitenauer, Amy Spring, Kevin Kecskes, Seanna M. Kerrigan, Christine M. Cress, and Peter J. Collier
3. BECOMING COMMUNITY: Moving From I to We – Vicki L. Reitenauer
PART TWO: LEARNING THE LANDSCAPE, LEARNING THE LANGUAGE
4. GROUPS ARE FUN, GROUPS ARE NOT FUN: Teamwork for the Common Good – Peter J. Collier and Janelle D. Voegele
5. CREATING CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: Navigating Difference, Investigating Power, Unpacking Privilege – Vicki L. Reitenauer, Christine M. Cress, and Janet Bennett
PART THREE: FACILITATING LEARNING AND MEANING-MAKING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
6. REFLECTION IN ACTION: The Learning–Doing Relationship – Peter J. Collier and Dilafruz R. Williams
7. MENTORING: Relationship Building for Empowerment – Peter J. Collier
Mentoring
8. LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE-LEARNING: Leveraging Change – Peter J. Collier
9. FAILURE WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS: When Things Go Wrong – Janelle D. Voegele and Devorah Lieberman
10. EXPANDING HORIZONS: New Views of Course Concepts – Christine M. Cress and Judy Patton
PART FOUR: ASSESSING THE ENGAGEMENT EFFORT
11. BEYOND A GRADE: Are We Making a Difference? The Benefits and Challenges of Evaluating Learning and Serving – Sherril B. Gelmon, Susan Agre-Kippenhan, and Christine M. Cress
12. GLOBAL AND IMMERSIVE SERVICE-LEARNING: What You Need to Know as You Go – Christine M. Cress, Stephanie T. Stokamer, Thomas J. Van Cleave, Chithra Edwin
13. START ANYWHERE, FOLLOW IT EVERYWHERE: Agents of Change – Vicki Reitenauer
14. LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: Where Do You Go from Here? – Peter J. Collier and Vicki L. Reitenauer
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX
