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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798483503321

Titolo

Reflecting on service-learning in higher education : contemporary issues and perspectives / / edited by M. Gail Hickey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-2371-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

361.3/70973

Soggetti

Service learning - United States

Community and college - United States

Citizenship - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Introduction; Section I: Reflection on Community Partnerships; Chapter One: Implementing Reciprocity for Collaborative Community Partnership; Chapter Two: The Move to a More Pragmatic Democratic Civic Engagement: Universities of the Future; Section II: Reflecting on Classroom Practice; Chapter Three: Reflecting on Service-Learning Experiences: A Three-Stage Model; Chapter Four: "I Am Amazed by How Much I Have Changed": Service-Learning's Potential for Transformation; Chapter Five: Learning from Failure: Service as a Tool for Teaching the Value of Failure

Chapter Six: Service-Learning in Dental Hygiene EducationChapter Seven: Service-Learning in the Professional Writing Skills Classroom: Marilyn Cooper's "Ecology of Writing" in Action; Chapter Eight: CSD and Service-Learning: A Literacy Experience; Chapter Nine: Document Dumpster-Diving: Students Learn and Teach about Local Museums; Chapter Ten: 2012 Election Experiential Program; Chapter Eleven: Carefully Reading the Texts We Assign: The Case for Service-Learning Instructors to Engage in Service; Section III: Reflecting on Diversity

Chapter Twelve: Firsthand Interactions with English Language Learners: Win-Win Learning Opportunities for AllChapter Thirteen: Utilizing



Service-Learning to Confront Crime Victimization among Refugees, Immigrants, and Other Non-English-Speaking Populations; Chapter Fourteen: Expanding Multicultural Understanding through Service-Learning: A Case Study; Chapter Fifteen: Speak Out, Reach Out: Infusing Multiculturalism and Social Justice from College to Community; Chapter Sixteen: Service-Learning with Students in Transition; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues.