Improving Service-Learning Practice

This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research andpractice. The chapters were selected through a refereed blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-HService-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a varietyof issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections.This volume in the series presents new paradigms that can lead practitioners to create more powerful experiences and lead researchers to abetter understanding of the relationships between service-learning participants context and outcomes. If implemented the models in thisvolume can do much to help us better understand the essence of service-learning and add to its value to education and the development ofengaged citizens.