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Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy

Author:

Andrew Furco

Author:

Shelley H. Billig

Publication Date:

2001

Publisher:

Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Pages:

286

Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy

Abstract:

The chapters of this volume focus on a broad range of topics that address a variety of research issues on service-learning in K-12 education, teacher education, and higher education. This book contains essays in three categories: theoretical issues regarding service-learning, the impacts of service-learning, and methodological approaches to studying service-learning.

Chapters:

Community Service and Service-Learning in America: The State of the Art

Chapters:

Is Service-Learning Really Better than Community Service? A Study of High School Service

Chapters:

Civil Society, Social Trust, and the Implementation of Service-Learning

Chapters:

Application of Developmental-Contextualism to Service-Learning, (An)

Chapters:

Using Program Theory to Build and Evaluate Service-Learning Programs

Chapters:

Theories Guiding Outcomes for Action Research for Service-Learning

Chapters:

Beyond Surveys: Using the Problem Solving Interview to Assess the Impact of Service-Learning on Understanding and Critical Thinking

Chapters:

Methodological Challenges and Potential Solutions for the Incorporation of Sound Community-Based Research into Service-Learning

Chapters:

Service-Learning as Qualitative Research: Creating Curriculum from Inquiry

Chapters:

Impact of Service-Learning on Civic Attitudes and Behaviors of Middle and High School Youth: Findings from Three National Evaluations

Chapters:

Service-Learning in Teacher Education: A Consideration of Qualitative and Quantitative Outcomes

Chapters:

Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainability of K-12 Service-Learning

Chapters:

Research Agenda for K-12 Service-Learning: A Proposal to the Field

Call Number:

200/C/FUR/2002

Series:

Advances in Service-Learning Research

Sector:

CBO Sector

Sector:

HE Sector

Sector:

K-12 Sector

Sector:

Tribes / Territories Sector

Library Item Type:

Print resource - book/monograph

Exemplary:

Exemplary - expert