Examines the theoretical justification for service learning through study of the writings of I. Harkavy, B. Barber, and K. Morton. Suggests that service learning will rise or fall based less on its broad social aspirations and more on how well it serves the goals of education. (Author/SLD)

Explores service learning as a potential antidote to the over-specialization, market consciousness, and civic disengagement that drain the contemporary humanities of their practice and theoretical vitality in a liberal education. Also considers the conceptual terrain of service learning. (Author/SLD)

Argues that Vida Dutton Scudder's pedagogy predicted a college-community connection increasingly popular one hundred years later: service-learning. Outlines Scudder's teaching, settlement work, and the ideologies underlying both; critiques her work with the benefit of 21st-century hindsight; and concludes by reaffirming that in the context of her…

Describes how teachers can use service-learning teaching methods to improve student achievement. (PKP)

Advocates service learning as an integrative strategy for Cooperative Extension. Addresses the following questions: (1) how does service learning, viewed as a form of engagement, differ from traditional extension activities? (2) what benefits might involvement in service learning bring to all stakeholders? and (3) how might extension engage young…

Introduces service learning and explores how it can be used in mathematics education. Relates experiences of using service learning in mathematics classes. (ASK)

Seeks to add another vocabulary to the pedagogy of the creative writing workshop: the language of use and action, of practice and implementation. Investigates how to reform the discursive walls between creativity and theory and ends by suggesting how educators might bring classrooms and communities together. (RS)

In this article we provide an analysis of the way in which we have designed and implemented an interdisciplinary service-learning course that overcomes the institutional barriers that often hinder creative collaboration in postsecondary environments.

This article features a service learning program at Albuquerque TVI Community College which provides hands-on civic education to its students. The Service Learning Program began in 1994 with a $5,000 grant from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). The success of the program provided for the development of the Department of…

How often have teachers tried to connect middle school science to students' lives only to lack an idea or a vehicle for making the connection? Service learning can provide that kind of a link for students. It is a teaching and learning method that combines meaningful community service with academics, personal growth, and civic responsibility. It…

Service learning integrates classroom instruction with community service to augment learning. This method of instruction facilitates humanistic counseling skills by enhancing counselor awareness and knowledge of unique needs and strengths of diverse peoples while promoting personal, social, civic, and professional responsibility. This article…

I was interested in whether the inclusion of a service-learning experience would affect students' attitudes and values about the environment. To investigate this question, I incorporated a service-learning project into the laboratory portion of one of the two sections of my non-majors biology course, and kept the lecture portions of the course…

The 2007 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projected a need for more than one million new and replacement nurses by 2016, while higher education continues to be challenged to find methods of producing graduate satisfaction, accompanied by successful transition from college to the workplace. Some nursing programs are meeting the challenge by…

Because service-learning challenges participants to widen perspectives on social issues, we designed and assessed a multi-semester, multidisciplinary project with both academic and service objectives. In this project, undergraduate students developed a script and video centered on a board game designed to educate high-school students about their…

Universities that lack significant racial or ethnic diversity present challenges to teaching multiculturalism, particularly in linguistics. This article presents ideas from a service-learning curriculum designed to teach university students about diversity through a community-based partnership to provide tutors in English as a second language…