Building partnerships for service-learning / Barbara Jacoby and associates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacoby, Barbara.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Service learning--United States.

Service learning.

United States.

Student volunteers in social service--United States.

Student volunteers in social service.

Experiential learning--United States.

Experiential learning.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 360 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Summary:

It is clear that service-learning has the potential to yield tremendous benefits to students, communities, and institutions of higher education. Increased student learning has been well documented. As communities gain new energy to meet their needs and greater capacity to capitalize on their assets, service-learning enables higher education to fulfill its civic responsibility. When service-learning lives up to its potential to lead colleges and universities to transform themselves into fully engaged citizens of their communities and the world, its ability to bring about positive social change is limitless.

To be successful, service-learning must be grounded in a wide range of solid, reciprocal, democratic partnerships. "Building Partnerships for Service-Learning" assembles leading voices in the field to bring together their expertise to bear on this crucial topic. Faculty, administrators, student leaders, and community and corporate leaders will find this volume filled with vital information, exemplary practices, and essential tools needed to make service-learning succeed. Comprehensive in scope, "Building Partnerships for Service-Learning "includes: Fundamentals and guiding frameworks for developing sustainable partnerships Assessment as a means of building service-learning partnerships The complex dynamics of collaborative academic affairs and student affairs partnerships Partnering with students to enhance service-learning How to create campuswide infrastructure for service-learning Profiles and case studies of outstanding partnerships with neighborhoods, community agencies, and K-12 schools Engaging in collaborative action research through service-learning partnershipsExploring the challenges and benefits of corporate and international partnerships The dynamic relationship of service-learning and the civic renewal of higher education "Building Partnerships for Service-Learning" is an invaluable guide and essential tool in taking service-learning to the next level by taking partnerships to the next level.

Contents:

1 Fundamentals of Service-Learning Partnerships / Barbara Jacoby 1

2 Developing a Theory and Practice of Campus-Community Partnerships / Sandra Enos, Keith Morton 20

3 Assessment as a Means of Building Service-Learning Partnerships / Sherril B. Gelmon 42

4 Developing Collaborative Student Affairs-Academic Affairs Partnerships for Service-Learning / Cathy McHugh Engstrom 65

5 Partnerships with Students / Irene Fisher, Shannon Huff Wilson 85

6 Developing an Infrastructure for Service-Learning and Community Engagement / Jennifer M. Pigza, Marie L. Troppe 106

7 Partnerships Among Colleges and Universities for Service-Learning / James Birge, Brooke Beaird, Jan Torres 131

8 Principles and Profiles of Exemplary Partnerships with Community Agencies / Susan R. Jones 151

9 Partnerships with Elementary and Secondary Education / Terry Pickeral 174

10 Empowering Residents and Students to Rebuild Neighborhoods: A Case Study / Janni Sorensen, Kenneth M. Reardon, Cathy Klump 192

11 Partnerships for Collaborative Action Research / Philip Nyden 213

12 Involving Corporate Partners / Stacey Riemer, Joshua McKeown 234

13 Partnerships for International Service-Learning / Linda A. Chisholm 259

14 Civic Renewal: A Powerful Framework for Advancing Service-Learning / Elizabeth Hollander, Matthew Hartley 289

15 Building Service-Learning Partnerships for the Future / Barbara Jacoby 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0787958905

OCLC:

50844214