Learning to serve : promoting civil society through service learning / edited by Maureen E. Kenny ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kenny, Maureen.

Series:

Outreach scholarship ; 7.

Outreach scholarship ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Service learning--United States--Case studies.

Service learning.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]

Summary:

Service learning, as defined by the editors, is the generation of knowledge that is of benefit to the community as a whole. This seventh volume in the Outreach Scholarship book series contributes a unique discussion of how service learning functions as a critical cornerstone of outreach scholarship. The sections and chapters of this book marshal evidence in support of the idea that undergraduate service learning, infused throughout the curriculum and coupled with outreach scholarship, is an integral means through which higher education can engage people and institutions of the communities of this nation in a manner that perpetuate civil society. The editors, through this series of models of service learning, make a powerful argument for the necessity of "engaged institutions."

Contents:

1. Promoting Civil Society through Service Learning: A View of the Issues / Maureen Kenny, Lou Anna K. Simon, Karen Kiley-Brabeck, Richard M. Lerner 1

2. Service Learning: A History of Systems / Maureen E. Kenny, Laura A. Gallagher 15

3. Indicators of Engagement, Campus Compact / Elizabeth L. Hollander, John Saltmarsh, Edward Zlotkowski 31

Section II Colleges & University Prespectives

4. The Culture of Service at Alverno College / Stephen Sharkey, Russell Brooker, Judeen Schulte 51

5. Civic Responsibility through Mutual Transformation of Town and Gown: Service Learning at Andrews University / Niels-Erik Andreasen 67

6. A Great Labor: Developing Knowledge in Service to Others at Boston College / James J. Fleming, Mary Brabeck 79

7. Historical Base, Evolution and Future Directions of Civic Engagement and Service Learning at Cornell University / Hunter R. Rawlings III, Francille M. Firebaugh, Susan H. Murphy, Scott Peters 97

8. Weaving a Web of Service: Academic and Civic Life at Florida State University / Sandy D'Alemberte, Peter Easton 111

9. Service Learning at Fordham University / Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J. 127

10. Equal to the Demands of Justice in the World, Georgetown University / Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J. 133

11. Liberal Arts College Faculty Reflect on Service-Learning: Steps on a Transformative Journey, Goucher College / Joan Burton, Laurie Kaplan, Judy Jolley Mohraz, Lawrence Kay Munns, Barbara Roswell, Carol Weinberg 143

12. Service Learning at Kansas State University: Educating Citizens for the Future / Carol A. Peak 167

13. History of Community Colleges, Los Angeles Community College District / Mark Drummond 185

14. Fulfilling Our Mission: Service-Learning at Miami-Dade Community College / Eduardo J. Padron 199

15. Real-World, Practical Learning: Developing a Comprehensive Model in the Land-Grant Tradition, Michigan State University / Peter McPherson, Diane L. Zimmerman, Nancy H. Pogel, Robert L. Church 209

16. Learning to Give: Incorporating the Practices of Leadership and Philanthropy in Civic Education at a Metropolitan University, Northern Kentucky University / Barbara A. Holland, James C. Votruba 225

17. Public Scholarship: Serving to Learn, Penn State University / Jeremy Cohen 239

18. Building Capacity for Civic Engagement at Portland State University: A Comprehensive Approach / Dilafruz R. Williams, Daniel O. Bernstine 257

19. EPICS: Serving the Community through Engineering Design Projects, Purdue University / Leah H. Jamieson, William C. Oakes, Edward J. Coyle 277

20. International Service Learning, University of Colorado, Boulder / Richard J. Kraft 297

21. Learning to Serve: Promoting Civil Society through Service Learning, University of Colorado at Denver / Andy A. Jhanji, Georgia E. Lesh-Laurie 315

22. Filling in the Moat around the Ivory Tower, University of Massachusetts-Amherst / Vachel Miller, David K. Scott 325

23. University of Nebraska - Lincoln / Eric Hartman, Diane Podolske, James Moeser 343

24. Academically-Based Community Service and University-Assisted Community Schools as Complementary Approaches for Advancing, Learning, Teaching, Research, and Service: The University of Pennsylvania as a Case Study in Progress / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy 361

25. Putting Passion in Action: Service Learning at Wheelock College / Marjorie Bakken 379

Section III Community Perspectives

26. The Massachusetts Children's Trust Fund: Partnerships with Universities in the Contexts of Policy and Family Support / Gretchen Biesecker, Suzin Bartley 395

27. Academic Service Learning: Development for Synthesis and Synergy, Jumpstart and Tufts University / W. George Scarlett, Erin Cox, Marisa Matsudaira 407

28. 4-H: An Adaptable Model for Youth Development and Service Learning / Donald T. Floyd, Leigh McKenna 415

29. Search Institute's Evolving Approach to Community-Based Human Development and the Role of Service Learning / Marc Mannes 423.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0792375777

OCLC:

48045887