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Cress, Christine M.; Stokamer, Stephanie T.; Van Cleave, Thomas J.; Kaufman, Joyce P. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2022
This is a practical guide to designing, teaching, and coordinating service-learning courses, and for developing reciprocal community partnerships and community-based research through a lens of equity that addresses the endemic racial, social, economic, and environmental disparities across society. The text provides a comprehensive framework for…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, Community Involvement
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O'Connor, John S. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
Over the past three years, 183 campuses have joined the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' American Democracy Project. Originally intended as a three-year initiative involving a score of schools, the response exceeded all expectations, and the project has been extended well beyond the initial timeframe. This fall Campus…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Participation, Citizenship Education, College Students
Colby, Anne – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2007
Young people in the United States today are much more likely to be involved in volunteer work of an apolitical sort than in politics. As part of a study on political engagement, the author and other colleagues surveyed students at a diversity of colleges and universities and asked them why they and many of their peers are so much more likely to…
Descriptors: Incentives, Democracy, Graduation Requirements, Service Learning
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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