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Giles, Dwight E., Jr. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2016
The theme of both "Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement" volume 12 issues 1 and 2 collectively, is "Faculty Motivation for Engagement in Public Scholarship." Herein Dwight Giles, Jr. touches upon each article in issue 2, specifically, noting the variability of the central terminology that is used across authors…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Vocabulary, Service Learning, Standards
Giles, Dwight E., Jr. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2016
In this commentary, author Dwight Giles, Jr. reflects on his 2008 article, "Understanding an Emerging Field of Scholarship: Toward a Research Agenda for Engaged, Public Scholarship," reprinted in this 20th anniversary issue of "Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement." In his original article, Giles argued that…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Vocabulary, Service Learning, Standards
Barber, Benjamin R. – Journal of College and Character, 2012
This essay is an excerpt from a keynote speech delivered by Benjamin Barber at the 2nd Annual Summer Research Institute on the "Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education." The speech focuses on six conditions that will impact community service-learning and voluntarism efforts in the years ahead: the ideology of neo-liberalism and…
Descriptors: Privatization, Service Learning, Cultural Pluralism, Citizenship
McTighe Musil, Caryn – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
In a September 2013 interview, Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu--whose passion for public service is manifested in differing ways and from two dramatically different generational standpoints--discussed insights from their co-authored book, "Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service (2013)." Septuagenarian Tom…
Descriptors: Public Service, Service Learning, Citizen Participation, Interviews
Allen, JoBeth; Kinloch, Valerie – Language Arts, 2013
This "Conversation Currents" features JoBeth Allen and Valerie Kinloch discussing their thoughts and experiences working with families and communities. Allen bases her comments on the belief that programs have to be adaptable to many different constituencies and demographics, and so must be recreated every year with every teacher and…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, School Community Relationship, Language Arts, Literacy Education
Brigham, Erin – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2012
In this paper, I suggest that community-based learning can act as a "public space" for the exchange of religious and non-religious identities. By providing a space for the collaboration between religiously-affiliated Universities and non-religiously affiliated community partners, community-based learning offers the opportunity for the negotiation…
Descriptors: Role of Religion, Religion, Service Learning, Cooperation
Chickering, Arthur W. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
In this article, the author states his belief that community based learning among adults can be a powerful force for encouraging personal development and for strengthening democracy in this multicultural, globally interdependent, battered world. To do so, however, it needs to pervade all the curricula, degree programs, learning contracts, and…
Descriptors: Democracy, Role of Education, Democratic Values, Citizen Participation
Schaffer, Esther; Berman, Sheldon; Pickeral, Terry; Holman, Elizabeth – 2001
The connection between service and character is a natural fit in today's schools. An important fact of school reform in recent years has been the push to connect academics to the "real world." But while there is widespread agreement that educating students to become good citizens is crucial, there are differences on how to make that goal…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Schwartzman, Roy – 1999
Service-learning places students and educational institutions in direct contact with surrounding communities, teaches them greater appreciation for persons of different social privileges, and helps them to recognize the necessity of social intervention in distributing the benefits of democracy. Service-learning is inherently democratizing by…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Educational Principles, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Zlotkowski, Edward – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1996
This article suggests that in college community service programs, it is widely assumed that community refers to groups off campus, and primarily or exclusively to those who have been identified as needing assistance. A more flexible and inclusive concept of community, including the campus community itself, is urged. A central issue discussed is…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, College Environment, College Role, Definitions

Merrill, Mary V. – Journal of Volunteer Administration, 1999
Discusses the distinctions between volunteerism and service and expresses concern about the use of "service" as an umbrella for all forms of civic participation. (JOW)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Service Learning, Volunteers
Kennedy, Marie; Mead, Molly – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1996
A discussion of community service education examines whether or not the background or characteristics of college students working in local programs influences program progress and success. It is concluded that students rarely come from the communities they serve, and that a more important factor is the kind and scope of preparation they are given…
Descriptors: Activism, Attitudes, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement
Richardson, Scott – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers, 2006
When students use classroom skills to build a wheelchair ramp, or teach their peers CPR, or grow vegetables for a food bank, or create children's books for preschoolers, or research and share local history, or educate the community about healthy living, or build and maintain nature trails, they are engaged in service learning (and are called…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, School Community Relationship

Olsen, Beth – Liberal Education, 1997
Richard Stockton College (New Jersey) is responding to the trend toward increased student focus on professional interests by establishing more rigorous academic standards and linking service learning in the community to educational goals for faculty and students. Faculty, students, and the community are responding positively. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction

Giles, Dwight E., Jr.; Eyler, Janet – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Top issues in service learning research include how service learning enhances subject matter; defining expected outcomes; identifying the processes of effective service learning; faculty involvement; effect on educational institutions; institutional policies, practices supporting/enhancing service learning; nature of effective community…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Citizenship Education, College Faculty, College Instruction