Advances in Education Research: Special Issue on Service-Learning

This volume presents selected research articles related to community service-learning. Each article was previously published in a refereed journal. Though not a comprehensive collection of the research, topics addressed include articles dealing with philosophy and history of service-learning, national, state and institutional trends and issues, outcomes and assessment, program design, and evaluation and research. Articles included in this volume are: 1) Philosophy and History of SL by Richard Kraft; 2) Institutional Support for SL by Serow, Calleson, Parker and Morgan; 3) Implementing SL in Higher Education by Bringle and Hatcher; 4) Faculty Motivation and Satisfaction in Michigan Higher Education by Hammond; 5) Outcomes Attributed to SL and Evidence of Changes in Faculty Attitudes About Experiential Education by Hesser; 6) Integrating Community Service and Classroom Instruction Enhances Learning: Results from an Experiment by Markus, Howard and King; 7) Effects of an Undergraduate Program to Integrate Academic Learning and Service: Cognitive, prosocial cognitive, and identity outcomes by Batchfelder and Root; 8) The Impact of a College Community Service Laboratory on Students' Personal, Social, and Cognitive Outcomes by Giles and Eyler; 9) The Impact of SL on College Students by Giles and Braxton; 10) In the Service of Citizenship: a Study of Student Involvement in Community Service by Rhoads; 11) Comprehensive Case Studies of Impact on Faculty, Students, Community, and Institution by Driscoll, Holland, Gelmon and Kerrigan; 12) Campus Compact Special Report; 13) Research Agenda for Combining Service and learning in the 1990s by Giles, Porter-Honnet, Migliore, Eds.