Describes the use of a transformative service learning model to design and implement an environmentally focused service learning class structured to sensitize students to the needs of the community and to enhance the community's capacity to resolve environmental problems. (SLD)

Introduces the AmeriCorps/Campus Corps program which is designed to integrate service learning into Maryland community colleges. Uses a model that can be replicated on a local level with all of the outside classroom legwork associated with service learning provided by the members of AmeriCorps. Describes the struggles regarding faculty recruitment…

Three nursing courses incorporated essential elements of service learning: meaningful service, reciprocity, leadership development, and reflection. In the process, students also developed skills in epidemiology, community and family intervention, and cultural competence. (SK)

Describes service-learning programs in three schools: Sullivan Elementary School in North Adams, Massachusetts; Turner Middle School in southwest Philadelphia; and Miami High School in Oklahoma. Identifies common elements in the three programs. Describes what school boards can do to support service-learning programs in their districts. (PKP)

Explored the extent to which community colleges in New York state use and support service learning. Through survey data and document analysis, uncovered how community colleges perceive their mission and are involved in their communities, identified major barriers to and reasons for engaging in service learning, and described service learning…

Describes discussions of race, particularly whiteness, in a service learning class. Argues that teaching the implications of white privilege is crucial in service learning courses, particularly when most of the students are white and most of those being served are of color. Considers the ethical implications of race in service learning. (EV)

Describes how 12 socioeconomically excluded young adults restored a New Zealand social activist's home using a process related to service learning but enhanced with critical analysis of society. Compares the process to service learning in terms of organizational setting, social class, governance, level of abstraction, conceptual and reflective…

Uses examples of student research projects to illustrate the value of service learning as a means of teaching research methods in gerontology. Stresses the interdisciplinary collaborative nature of gerontology and the benefit of developing research skills through actual practice. (SK)

Describes students' activities in introductory chemistry to fulfill their requirement for service learning. Explains the investigation of the causes for the foul taste of drinking water coming from a specific fountain. (YDS)

Rarely do outdoor educators get the opportunity to safely incorporate an avalanche while the topic of the day is actually avalanche awareness and forecasting. Many similar possibilities exist in the expeditionary context, but even brief excursions may result in incredible learning experiences. These "teachable moments" occur regularly in the…

Experiential education, developed more than a century ago, is a guide for instructors interested in helping students capture the meaning of their learning experiences. John Dewey (1963) in Experience and Education emphasized that events are present and operative but that what concerns most people is their meaning. Dewey judged the quality of an…

Nursing home programs committed to providing quality care need to investigate innovative ways to meet today's budget challenges. The purpose of this article is to describe a creative collaboration between a nonprofit nursing home facility and a suburban university. Through service-learning, undergraduate students planned and implemented…

Service learning, or education through community service, benefits students, faculty, community colleges, and their surrounding communities. The following citations are a selection of recent ERIC resources on service learning in the community college. These resources include guides to developing and sustaining community partnerships and…

Questions of "difference," embroiled in identity politics, a politics of difference, cultural identity(ies) and democracy, are among multicultural literary studies' most pressing and controversial issues and affect all who teach literature by writers of multicultural backgrounds, especially in introductory and survey courses. In this article, the…

In this paper, I take up a discussion of what philosophic method is, and why it should be viewed as an important qualitative research method. After clarifying the nature of philosophic method within the larger framework of social practices, I argue that philosophy is important to both practice and research, and I suggest that philosophers work in…