Practice of Change, (The): Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Women's Studies

This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, explores the important lessons women’s history and women’s studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women’s studies to reconnect with its activist past. The book includes essays with real examples of service-learning projects in women’s studies and lists an extensive bibliography of service-learning and women’s studies sources. Contents:

• On Critical Thinking and Connected Knowing- Blythe McVicker Clinchy
• Educating the Artist: A Political Statement- S.A. Bachman with D. Attyah
• A Feminist Challenge to Community Service: A Call to Politicize Service-Learning- Tobi Walker
• The History of Women and Service in the United States: A Rich and Complex Heritage- Helen Damon-Moore
• Service-Learning and Women's Studies: A Community College Perspective- Karen Bojar
• The "Different Voice" of Service- Catherine Ludlum Foos
• Learning Across Boundaries: Women's Studies, Praxis, and Community Service- Mary Trigg and Barbara J. Baillet
• Women's Studies and Community-Based Service-Learning: A Natural Affinity- Patricia A. Washington
• Educated in Agency- Melissa Kesler Gilbert
• The Urban Educational Initiative: Supporting Educational Partnerships with Young, Urban Girls- Kimberly Farah and Kerrissa Heffernan
• Women, AIDS, and Social Justice: An Autobiography of Activism and Academia- Sally Zierler
• TCBY in Limon, Costa Rica: Women's Studies and the (Re)construction of Identity in International Service-Learning- Debra J. Liebowitz
• "Civic Character" Engaged: Adult Learners and Service-Learning- Eve Allegra Raimon and Jan L. Hitchcock
• Resolving a Conundrum: Incorporating Service-Learning Into a Women and the Law Course- Mary Pat Treuthart