Future of Service-Learning

<p>As a new generation of practitioners engages with service learning, at a time when higher education faces questions about learning outcomes and costs, and in the context of such issues as globalization and the environment, this book poses important questions about practice, institutional sustainability, and future directions. Among these are:What counts as service learning? What value does it bring to institutions? Is it appropriate for all students? How is globalization impacting service learning? Divided into three thematic parts, this book successively covers institutional and administrative issues; service learning as a springboard for research; and presents new practices that address emerging challenges and changing student populations. The contributors review how different institutional types have structured their service learning activities; address the issue of centralization or decentralization; propose better ways to form community partnerships; consider promotion and tenure implications; postulate framing service-learning and community engagement as scholarship; and examine service-learning as a springboard for research. Further chapters offer a new blueprint for funding to achieve sustainability; examples of international service learning from a European perspective; a case study and framework for using on-line formats to extend the reach of a program; raise the urgent issue of the experiences and contributions of underrepresented students; and present the rationale and processes for developing effective student-led evaluation of programs.</p> <p>Acknowledgements Foreword—Andrew Furco PART ONE. FOSTERING INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS 1. Introduction. Critical Questions and Directions for the Next Generation of Practitioners—Jean Strait 2. Future Directions in Campus-Community Partherships. Location of Service-learning Offices and Activities in Higher Education—Elizabeth Carmichael Strong, Patrick M. Green, Micki Meyer and Margaret Post 3. Cultivating Interdependent Partnerships for Community Change and Civic Education—Melissa Kesler Gilbert, Mathew Johnson, and Julie Plaut 4. Securing Administrator Support for Service-Learning Institutionalization—Andrew Furco and Barbara Holland PART TWO. INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE SERVICE-LEARNING 5. Community Engagement. Second-Generation Promotion and Tenure Issues and Challenges—Lorilee R. Sandmann 6. Facing the Unsettled Questions about Service-Learning—Barbara Jacoby 7. Service-Learning’s Impact on Attitudes and Behavior. A Review and Update—Joseph A. Erickson 8. Funding Service-Learning Programs—Mary Beth Lima PART THREE. EMERGING MODELS IN SERVICE-LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS 9. Service-Learning and the Development of Critical Reflexivity in Teacher Education in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Emerging Paradigms—Tim Murphy, Jon Tan and Christine Allan 10. Service-eLearning. What Happens When Service-Learning and Online Education Unite?—Jean Strait 11. “I Do More Service in This Class Than I Ever Do At My Site.” Paying Attention to the Reflections of Students of Color in Service-Learning—Tania D. Mitchell and David M. Donahue 12. New Directions in Research and Evaluation. Participation and Use Are Key—Robert Shumer 13. Living Democracy Daily. Service Learning and Active Citizenship—Walter Enloe Epilogue—Marybeth Lima Contributors Index</p>