Acting Locally: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Environmental Studies

Ninth in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, this book discusses the pervasive use of service-learning in environmental studies programs and explains why it often is a required part of the environmental studies curriculum. Contributors from a wide range of college and university environmental studies programs discuss the benefits and challenges these programs provide and the consequent natural fit between environmental studies and service-learning. Chapters include: 

• An Undergraduate Course as a Consulting Company by James F. Hornig
• The Challenges of Integrating Service-Learning in the Biology: Environmental Science Curriculum at Colby College by David H. Firmage and F. Russell Cole
• Evolution of the Consultant Model of Service-Learning, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine by Lois K. Ongley, Curtis Bohlen, and Alison S. Lathrop
• The Ethics of Community/Undergraduate Collaborative Research in Chemistry by Alanah Fitch, Aron Reppmann, and John Schmidt
• Evolving a Service-Learning Curriculum at Brown University: Or, What We Learned From Our Community Partners by Harold Ward
• A View From the Bottom of the Heap: A Junior Faculty Member Confronts the Risks of Service-Learning by Katrina Smith Korfmacher
• Raising Fish and Tomatoes to Save the Rustbelt by Eric Pallant
• Fulfilling and Expanding the Mission of a Community College by Janice Alexander
• Connecting With Human and Natural Communities at Middlebury College by John Elder, Christopher McGrory Klyza, Jim Northup and Stephen Trombulak
• An Educational Strategy to Reduce Exposure of Urban Children to Environmental Lead: ENVS 404 at the University of Pennsylvania by Robert Giegengack, Walter Cressler, Peter Bloch, and Joanne Piesieski
• Connecting the Classroom and the Community: A Southern California Experience by Nan Jenks-Jay; An Experiment in Environmental Service-Learning by Calvin F. Exoo
• Service-Learning in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont through a Senior Capstone Course on Environmental Problem Solving and Consulting by Thomas R. Hudspeth
• Industrial Areas and Natural Areas: Service-Learning in Southeast Michigan by Orin G. Gelderloos
• ALLARM: A Case Study on the Power and the Challenge of Service in Undergraduate Science Education by Candie C. Wilderman
• Environmental Service and Learning at John Carroll University: Lessons From the Mather Project by Mark Diffenderfer