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Connecting Past and Present: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in History

Author:

Ira Harkavy

Author:

Edward Zlotkowski

Author:

Bill M. Donovan

Institution:

American Association for Higher Education

Publication Date:

2000

Publisher:

American Association for Higher Education

Pages:

211

Abstract:

This volume, 16th in a series about service learning and the academic disciplines, focuses on the ways service-learning adds immediacy and relevance to the study of history. The authors of this collection provide answers to why history and service-learning should be connected, and they describe strategies to bring this about.

Chapters:

Service-Learning, Academically Based Community Service, and the Historic Mission of the American Urban Research University

Chapters:

Emerson's Prophesy

Chapters:

Service-Learning and History: Training the Metaphorical Mind

Chapters:

Turnerian Frontier: A New Approach to the Study of the American Character, (The)

Chapters:

Reflections of a Historian on Teaching a Service-Learning Course About Poverty and Homelessness in America

Chapters:

Reclaiming the Historical Tradition of Service in the African-American Community

Chapters:

Service-Learning as a Tool of Engagement: From Thomas Aquinas to Che Guevara

Chapters:

Service-Learning in the Chilean Desert

Chapters:

Classical Studies and the Search for Community

Chapters:

Unspoken Purposes of Service-Learning: Teaching the Holocaust, (The)

Full Text Link:

http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED449732.pdf

Call Number:

150/C/HAR/2000

Series:

AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines

Sector:

HE Sector

Electronic Availability:

Available online

Library Item Type:

Electronic resource - book/monograph

Library Item Type:

Print resource - book/monograph

Exemplary:

Exemplary - expert