Cultivating the Sociological Imagination: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Sociology

Cultivating the Sociological Imagination: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Sociology contains thirteen articles, essays, and interviews from experts in the field. Articles include interviews of practitioners, an annotated bibliography of projects and publications on service-learning in sociology courses, and discussions on service-learning and sociology. Articles include:

• Service-Learning: Not Charity, but a Two-Way Street- Judith Blau
• Service-Learning and the Teachability of Sociology- James Ostrow
• Sociology's Essential Role: Promoting Critical Analysis in Service-Learning- Kerry Strand
• Building Campus-Community Connections: Using Service-Learning in Sociology Courses- J. Richard Kendrick
• A Multicultural and Critical Perspective on Teaching Through Community: A Dialogue with Jose Calderon of Pitzer College- Sandra Enos
• Service-Research Projects in the Urban School: A Dialogue with Frank Furstenberg, Jr., of the University of Pennsylvania- Sandra Enos
• Service-Learning as Symbolic Interaction- Barbara Vann
• The Joys of Your Troubles: Using Service and Reflection to Enhance Learning in the Community College Sociology Classroom- Marth Bergin and Susan McAleavey
• Service-Learning Through Meta-Reflection: Problems and Prospects of Praxis in Organizational Sociology- Hugh Lenaa
• Action Research: The Highest Stage of Service-Learning?- Douglas Porpora
• Examining Communities and Urban Change: Service-Learning as Collaborative Research- Gary Hesser
• Sociology, Service, and Learning, For a Stronger Discipline- Carla Howery.
• The appendix includes a bibliography, three sample syllabi, and biographies of contributing authors.