Research Guides: Service Learning: Books

Books about Service Learning

Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education (Ebook) by Erica K. Yamamura and Kent Koth
Publication Date: 2018
While an increasing number of universities have or are committed to engaging their campuses in their surrounding communities, many recognize they lack the strategic focus and resources to maximize and sustain their impact on those communities. Place-based community engagement provides a powerful way to creatively connect campus and community to foster positive social transformation.
Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners (Ebook) by Kelly Lowther Pereira
Publication Date: 2018
This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book's purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context, as well as to provide language educators and practitioners essential guidelines for designing community service-learning courses, with particular attention paid to the characteristics and needs of Spanish heritage language learners.
Service Learning Through Community Engagement (Ebook) by Lori Gardinier
Publication Date: 2016
Presenting a variety of contemporary models and frameworks for community engagement, this book is distinguished by its unique emphasis on campus-community partnerships from the perspective of the community.
Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement (Ebook) by Lorilee R. Sandmann and Diann O. Jones
Publication Date: 2019
This book contributes to the ever-under-construction edifice by presenting a scaffolding of the scholarship that has been part of the building process, documenting and analyzing the past, speculating about the future, and framing a continuing conversation about and for the field.
Integrating Service-Learning and Consulting in Distance Education (Ebook) by Marie-Line Germain
Publication Date: 2019
Anchored in research and supported by eight years of successful implantation, this book presents an award-winning e-service-learning model which allows students to enhance their employability with real work experience.
Guide to Collaborative Communication for Service-Learning and Community Engagement Partners (Ebook) by Rebecca Dumlao
Publication Date: 2018
This book offers a conceptual framework of collaborative communication to build and sustain partnerships, recognizing that relationships change over time as the people involved and their circumstances evolve.
Service-Learning: Enhancing Inclusive Education (Ebook) by Shane Lavery, Dianne Chambers, Glenda Cain, and Chris Forlin
Publication Date: 2017
This book explores the process of service learning and the intersection with inclusion in classroom and community. Special consideration is given to issues of equity, students with disability, those from disadvantaged backgrounds, and students of different cultural and language groups.
Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (Ebook) by Sherril B. Gelmon and Barbara A. Holland
Publication Date: 2018
This book offers a broad overview of many issues related to assessment in higher education, with specific application for understanding the impact of service-learning and civic engagement initiatives. This revised edition includes an additional chapter that explores recent changes in the assessment landscape and offers examples and resources for designing assessment strategies for community engagement in higher education.
Service-Learning to Advance Access and Success (Ebook) by Travis York, Alan S. Tinkler, and Barri E. Tinkler
Publication Date: 2019
This volume of the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, Service-Learning to Advance Access & Success: Bridging Institutional and Community Capacity, focuses on how service-learning can advance access and success. Not simply access and success of students, but the ways that service-learning can advance access and success for all through bridging institutional and community capacity building.

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