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Contents
This installment in the book series "Advances in Service-Learning Research", edited by Shelley H. Billig and Marshall Welch, focuses on New Perspectives in Service-Learning.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction; Marshall Welch and Shelley H. Billig.
Part I. Foundations.
Chapter 1. Service-Learning and the Development of Democratic Universities, Democratic Schools, and Democratic Societies in the 21st Century; Lira Harkavy.
Chapter 2. Adding Rigor to Service-Learning Research: An Armchair Economists' Approach; Andrea L. Ziegert and Kim Marie McGoldrick.
Part II. Impact of Service-Learning.
Chapter 3. A Framework for Assessing the Effects of Academic Service-Learning Across Disciplines; Malu Roldan, Amy Strage, and Debra David.
Chapter 4. The Impact of K-12 School-Based Service-Learning on Academic Achievement and Student Engagement in Michigan; Stephen Meyer, Shelley H. Billig, and Linda Hofschire.
Chapter 5. The Long-Term Effects of Undergraduate Service-Learning Programs on Post-Graduate Employment Choices, Community Engagement, and Civic Leadership; Judith Warchal and Ana Ruiz.
Chapter 6. Effects of Intercultural Service-Learning Experiences on Intellectual Development and Intercultural Sensitivity; Peggy Fitch.
Chapter 7. Service-Learning Taken to a New Level Through Community-Based Research: A Win-Win for Campus and Community; Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski.
Part III. Institutionalization of Service-Learning.
Chapter 8. Teacher Perceptions on Implementing Schoolwide Service-Learning; Patricia J. Mintz and A.J. Abramovitz.
Chapter 9. Faculty Engagement in Service-Learning: Individual and Organizational Factors at Distinct Institutional Types; Meaghan Mundy.
Chapter 10. Institutionalizing Service-Learning Across the University: International Comparisons; Sherril Gelmon, Ann Sherman, Marla Gaudet, Carol Mitchell, and Kirsten Trotter.
Part IV. Reflections on Today and Tomorrow.
Chapter 11. Service Learning as Civically-Engaged Scholarship: Challenges and Strategies in Higher Education and K–12 Settings; Shelley H. Billig and Marshall Welch.