This substantially expanded new edition of this widely-used and
acclaimed text maintains the objectives and tenets of the first. It is
designed to help students understand and reflect on their community
service experiences both as individuals and as citizens of communities
in need of their compassionate expertise. It is designed to assist
faculty in facilitating student development of compassionate expertise
through the context of service in applying disciplinary knowledge to
community issues and challenges. In sum, the book is about how to make
academic sense of civic service in preparing for roles as future citizen
leaders.
Each chapter has been developed to be read and reviewed, in sequence,
over the term of a service-learning course. Students in a semester
course might read just one chapter each week, while those in a
quarter-term course might need to read one to two chapters per week. The
chapters are intentionally short, averaging 8 to 14 pages, so they do
not interfere with other course content reading.
This edition presents four new chapters on Mentoring, Leadership,
Becoming a Change Agent, and Short-Term Immersive and Global
Service-Learning experiences. The authors have also revised the original
chapters to more fully address issues of social justice,
privilege/power, diversity, intercultural communication, and technology;
have added more disciplinary examples; incorporated additional academic
content for understanding service-learning issues (e.g., attribution
theory); and cover issues related to students with disabilities, and
international students.
This text is a student-friendly, self-directed guide to service-learning
that:
- Develops the skills needed to succeed
- Clearly links service-learning to the learning goals of the course
- Combines self-study and peer-study workbook formats with activities
that can be incorporated in class, to give teachers maximum flexibility
in structuring their service-learning courses
- Promotes independent and collaborative learning
- Equally suitable for courses of a few weeks' or a few months'
duration
- Shows students how to assess progress and communicate end-results
- Written for students participating in service learning as a class, but
also suitable for students working individually on a project.
Instructor's Manual
This Instructor Manual discusses the following six key areas for
aligning your course with use of Learning through Serving, whether you
teach a senior-level high school class, freshman studies course, or a
college capstone class:
1. Course and syllabus design
2. Community-partner collaboration
3. Creating class community
4. Strategic teaching techniques
5. Developing intercultural competence
6. Impact assessment
This Manual is free and available for download in PDF format by clicking
on "INSTRUCTOR MANUAL" on the left side of this webpage, just underneath
the cover image.
