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Direct linkPelham, Anabel, Ed.; Sills, Elizabeth, Ed.; Eisman, Gerald S., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
Starting from the premise that the health status, vulnerability to accidents and disease, and life spans are determined by the organization, delivery, and financing (or lack thereof) of health care, this book explores how educators and community caretakers teach the complex web of inter-connection between the micro level of individual health and…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Health, Public Health, Health Promotion
Download full textHarkavy, Ira, Ed.; Donovan, Bill M., Ed. – 2000
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. The chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, History, Intellectual Disciplines
Ostrow, James, Ed.; Hesser, Garry, Ed.; Enos, Sandra, Ed. – 1999
The articles in this volume, seventh in a series of monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines, discuss service learning in sociology or students engaging in sociological analysis through projects designed to make a positive impact on communities. The discussions consider ways that service learning projects can be adapted in most…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, School Community Relationship
Balliet, Barbara J., Ed.; Heffernan, Kerrissa, Ed. – 2000
This volume, 17th in a series of monographs on service-learning and the academic disciplines, discusses the role of service learning as part of women's studies. Essays discuss the ways that the ideology of service has allowed the devaluation of service work, and they consider the importance of service learning for the student as well as the…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, School Community Relationship
Rizzo, Margaret; Brown, Joyce – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
Developing a community service project for middle school students can be a daunting task. The sheer number of contacts necessary for the project to be successful can be overwhelming. This manual will provide materials and guidance to simplify this process and ensure its success. Included in this workbook are sample letters, worksheets, lesson…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Participation
Godfrey, Paul C., Ed.; Grasso, Edward T., Ed. – 2000
The articles in this volume, 15th in a series of monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines, show how student learning can be enhanced by joining management theory with experience and management analysis with action. Service learning prepares business students to see new dimensions of relevance in their coursework, and it provides…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Education, College Students, Higher Education
Tsang, Edmund, Ed. – 2000
This volume, the 14th in a series of monographs on service learning and academic disciplinary areas, is designed as a practical guide for faculty seeking to integrate service learning into an engineering course. The volume also deals with larger issues in engineering education and provides case studies of service-learning courses. The articles…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Development, Engineering, Engineering Education
Wade, Rahima C., Ed. – 1997
This book provides a comprehensive guide to help educators in K-12 service learning programs. Each of the book's four parts provides a different scope and purpose. Part 1, "Community Service-Learning," addresses the components of quality service learning programs and includes the chapters (all written by Rahima C. Wade) : (1) "Community…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Brubaker, David C., Ed.; Ostroff, Joel H., Ed. – 2000
This volume is the 18th in a series of monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. The articles in this volume provide an array of service learning courses in biology that demonstrate active student participation in thoughtfully organized service experiences that meet real community needs and are integrated with the students'…
Descriptors: Biology, College Students, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Jacoby, Barbara; And Others – 1996
The 14 readings in this book focus on service learning in higher education, its theoretical framework, the advantages of various techniques, and practical means for implementation. Service learning is seen to offer students the chance to combine academic knowledge/skills with community experience. Chapter titles and authors are: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Responsibility, Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Higher Education
Lakes, Richard D. – 1996
Presented in this book are studies of social projects for economically disadvantaged inner-city youth engaged in neighborhood revitalizations in low-income communities around the country. Children and teens are highlighted as they participate in nonschool initiatives to achieve economic and political self-determination coupled with personal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Services, Economic Development
Totten, Samuel, Ed.; Pedersen, Jon E., Ed. – 1997
This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service. The book is comprised of two parts with 18 essays and an introduction. The essays reflect a range of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
Stocking, S. Holly, Ed.; Bender, Eileen T., Ed.; Cookman, Claude H., Ed.; Peterson, J. Vincent, Ed.; Votaw, Robert B., Ed. – 1998
This book, a sequel to "Quick Hits," offers simple but successful strategies that award-winning teachers from Indiana University (IU) have found, through experience, to help promote learning in college classes. The original book grew out of the annual retreats of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an organization…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Students
Gottlieb, Karla, Ed.; Robinson, Gail, Ed. – 2002
This curriculum guide discusses civic responsibility, how it is tied to service learning, how faculty can integrate concepts and exercises in a practical way, and how faculty can assess the development of civic responsibility in their students. Civic responsibility is defined here as active participation in the public life of a community, in an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Citizenship Responsibility, College Curriculum, Community Colleges
Adler-Kassner, Linda, Ed.; Crooks, Robert, Ed.; Watters, Ann, Ed. – 1997
This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. These essays highlight some of the benefits and problems of service-learning in the college composition curriculum and present further areas for study. Following the Introduction, "Service-Learning and Composition at the Crossroads," by…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Services, Democracy, Higher Education
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