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Community Development
All service-learning programs promote the improvement of a community, but some programs focus specifically on teaching students how to recognize a community’s needs and work with the community to create positive change and growth. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.
NSLC-Produced Resources
NSLC Library Items
- Introduction to Community Development: Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning (2010), Jerry W. Robinson, Jr. and Gary Paul Green
- Doing What We Know We Should: Engaged Scholarship and Community Development (2008), Bruce Muirhead and Geoff Woolcock
- Renegotiating Community Life: Arts, Agency, Inclusion, and Wellbeing (2008), Martin Mulligan, Christopher Scanlon, and Nicky Welch
- The Engaged University, Community Development, and Public Scholarship (2006), Jeffrey C. Bridger and Theodore R. Alter
- Integrating Youth into Community Development: Implications for Policy Planning and Program Evaluation (2006), Rosemary V. Barnett and M. A. Brennan (PDF)
- Bordering the Bounds of Service-Learning: Creating Community Change (2002), Kristen Spangler and Wesley Teter
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SLICE Ideas and Examples
- Community, Consensus, and Commitment (HE)
- Community of Caring (K-12)
- Map Your Community (CBO)
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Related Websites
- Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
- The Asset Based Community Development Institute
- Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development
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