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Experiential Learning in Higher Education: Issues, Ideas, and Challenges for Promoting Peace and Justice. Peace Education
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Finley, Laura L., Ed.; Bowen, Glenn A., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021
This edited volume focuses on best practices in experiential learning. Chapters address service-learning, community-based research, international efforts and other experiential methods, highlighting innovative approaches, successes, and issues of concern. Further, the book also demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of experiential education,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Service Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Critical-Service Learning as a Revolutionary Pedagogy: An International Project of Student Agency in Action. Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society
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Porfilio, Bradley, Ed.; Hickman, Heather, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to the volume's international focus, the authors also…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Political Science, Global Education, Altruism
Service Learning for Youth Empowerment and Social Change. Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society, Volume 5.
Claus, Jeff, Ed.; Ogden, Curtis, Ed. – 1999
This book presents current thinking on the topic of community service programs for youth. Combining theory and research with descriptions of innovative programs and specific recommendations for program design, the volume outlines an approach to service learning that engages youth not only in helping others but also in critical reflection and the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
Enriching the Curriculum through Service Learning.
Kinsley, Carol W., Ed.; McPherson, Kate, Ed. – 1995
In this practical guide to service learning, 21 contributors describe specific service-learning projects that have enhanced the curriculum in schools across the United States and that have improved student learning in the process. In the Foreword, U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, encourages schools to incorporate service learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adult Education, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development