Service-Learning in Physical Education and Related Professions: A Global Perspective

This book demonstrates how faculty in physical education and related professions have designed, implemented, assessed, and conducted action research involving service-learning as a teaching and learning method - both locally and globally - as a means of both serving the community and enriching the lives of their students. The text consists of three parts: Part I provides a definition of service-learning by examining the parameters that have been explored in physical education and higher education in general and the integration of these standards to ensure high-quality service-learning; Part II focuses on the pedagogical frameworks in which service-learning thrives and explores how the model specifically meets national standards and best practices, as well as the emerging role of research as a measurement tool of the effectiveness of service-learning; Part III explores a variety of programs from around the globe that utilize service-learning in their pedagogical frameworks and provides the nuts and bolts of what these programs have done and what their accomplishments have been. Includes case studies of model programs from Slippery Rock University, University of North Florida, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Eastern Washington University, Texas Tech University, Rhode Island College, Central Michigan University, Whitworth University, University of Gloucestershire (United Kingdom), University of Windsor (Canada), University of Melbourne (Australia), and University of Canterbury (New Zealand). [publisher]