Service-Learning in Teacher Education: Enhancing the Growth of New Teachers, Their Students, and Communities

To what degree does service-learning enhance measurable learning outcomes among children? Do service-learning settings help to illuminate indicators or evidence of quality as specified in student and teacher standards? These questions, and many others, are explored in this exciting new publication from AACTE. Emerging from the efforts of the Service-Learning and Teacher Education (SLATE) project, a three-year project funded by AACTE and the Corporation for National Service (CNS), this book examines the state of service-learning at the closing of the project in late 2000. It is a compilation of 30 chapters produced by some 50 scholar/practitioners involved in service-learning and teacher education, and focuses on providing teacher educators and practicing professionals with information on the conceptual, research, and application areas of service-learning in preservice teacher education. Partial Contents:

• Rationales for Integrating Service-Learning in Teacher Education by Susan Verducci and Denise Pope
• Psychological Bases of Effective Service-Learning by Joseph A. Erickson and Toni Santmire
• Institutionalizing Service-Learning in Teacher Education: Perspective from Feminist Phase Theory by Kelly Ward and Debra Nitschke-Shaw
• Service-Learning and Standards-Based Teacher Education by Jane P. Callahan et. al.
• A Review of Research on Service-Learning in Preservice Teacher Education by Sue Root and Andrew Furco
• Capturing the Power of Service-Learning in Teacher Education Through Portraiture by Lissa Soep and Don Hill
• Project SALUTE: Service and Learning in Urban Teacher Education by Deborah C. Allen-Campbell and Kristin Brannon
• Service-Learning for Teacher Preparation Programs by Teresa M. Davis et. al.
• Initial Service-Learning Experience Through the Lenses of Preservice Teachers by Kim Flottemesch et. al.
• Early Childhood Teacher Education ... by Nancy K. Freeman and Kevin J. Swick
• A Framework for Conceptualizing Doing Research on Service-Learning in Preservice Teacher Education by Sue Root and Kevin J. Swick
• Enhancement of Service-Learning and Educational Foundations at the University of Idaho by Grace Goc Karp et. al.
• Integrating Service-Learning into 'Education in a Democratic Society' at Ball State by Jill Miels
• Integrating Service-Learning and Social Studies Pedagogy at Wisconsin Lutheran College by Ray Dusseau and John Freese
• Experiencing Active Citizenship: Service-Learning in and Elementary Social Studies Methods Course at the University of Iowa by Rahima C. Wade
• Service-Learning in a Science Methods Course at the University of Akron by Francis Broadway et. al.
• Multicultural Service-Learning in Teacher Education by Rahima C. Wayde, Marilynne Boyle-Baise, and Carolyn O'Grady
• Continuous Improvement: Assessing Students' Learning Through Service by Rich Cairn, Mark Langseth, and Julie Plaut
• Service-Learning and Teacher Education: An Annotated Bibliography by Robert Shumer and Ann Treacy