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Experiencing service-learning / Robert F. Kronick, Robert B. Cunningham, and Michele Gourley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kronick, Robert F.
- Series:
- Torchbearer texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Service learning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A unique resource for students and professors alike, this book reveals the important practical, educational, and emotional benefits provided by college programs that allow students to help others through service work in inner-city classrooms, clinics, and other challenging environments. Filled with vivid first-person reflections by students, Experiencing Service-Learning emphasizes learning by doing, getting into the field, sharing what one sees with colleagues, and interpreting what one learns.As the authors make clear, service-learning is not a spectator sport. It
- Contents:
- Stepping into a new culture
- Concept learning: thinking-skill level, experiential learning, and action theory
- Service-learning in an inner-city elementary school
- Service-learners reflect
- Serving and learning in Tegucigalpa
- Service learning and transformational change
- Implementation challenges
- Appendix A. The passion for service: where does it come from?
- Appendix B. Service-learning project examples.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613239297
- 9781283239295
- 1283239299
- 9781572337954
- 1572337958
- OCLC:
- 735624169
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