Construyendo Puentes (Building Bridges): Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Spanish

This collection aims at helping teachers, administrators, and students realize the potential of service-learning in Spanish classes. Chapters include the following:

• Service-Learning and Spanish: a Missing Link, by Aileen Hale
• Critical Pedagogy and Service-Learning in Spanish: Crossing Borders in the Freshman Seminar, by Jonathann Arries
• Service-Learning and Language Acquisition Theory and Practice, by Jeanne Mullaney
• From Instrumental to Interactive to Critical Knowledge Through Service-Learning in Spanish, by Lucia Varona
• Service-Learning with Bilingual Communities and the Struggle for Change: a Critical Approach, by Mark Baldwin, et al
• Altruism and Community Service in Hispanic Literature: readings and Praxis, by Estelle Irizarry
• Learning the Basics of Spanish Translation: Articulating a Balance Between Theory and Practice Through Community Service, by Carmen Lizardi-Rivera
• Raising Cultural Awareness Through Service-Learning in Spanish Culture and Conversation: Tutoring in the Migrant Education Program in Salem, by Patricia Varas
• Community-Based Language Learning: Integrating Language and Service, by J. Patrick Boyle and Denise M. Overfield
• Community Video: Empowerment Through University and Community Interaction, by Teresa Darias, et al
• Expanding Our Vision of Literacy: Learning to Read the World of Others, by Nancy Jean Smith
• The Chongon-Colonche Hills in Western Ecuador: Preservation Through Community Empowerment, by Clarice Strang