Service-Learning Through a Multidisciplinary Lens
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- Description
- Contents
A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning. The papers are divided into sections on: dimensions of service-learning research; theoretical perspectives on service-learning; service-learning and the disciplines; the impacts on service-learning participants; and future directions.
Introduction; Shelley H. Billig and Andrew Furco.
- Part I. Dimensions of Service-Learning Research.
- Chapter 1. Stretching to Meet the Challenge: Improving the Quality of Research to Improve the Quality of Service-Learning; Janet Eyler.
- Chapter 2. Establishing Norms for Scientific Inquiry in Service-Learning; Andrew Furco and Shelley H. Billig.
- Part II. Theoretical Perspective on Service-Learning.
- Chapter 3. Probing and Promoting Teachers' Thinking About Service-Learning: Toward a Theory of Teacher Development; Mary Sue Ammon.
- Chapter 4. The Sacred and Profane: Theorising Knowledge Reproduction Processes in a Service-Learning Curriculum; Janice McMillan.
- Part III. Service-Learning and the Disciplines.
- Chapter 5. An Interdisciplinary Study of Service-Learning Predictors and Outcomes Among College Students; Pamela Steinke, Peggy Fitch, Chris Johnson, and Fredric Waldstein.
- Chapter 6. Service-Learning and Student Writing: An Investigation of Effects; Adrian J. Wurr.
- Chapter 7. Impact of Service-Learning on Occupational Therapy Students' Awareness and Sense of Responsibility Toward Community; Rhonda Waskiewicz.
- Part IV. The Impacts on Service-Learning Participants.
- Chapter 8. Community Agency Perspectives in Higher Education Service-Learning and Volunteerism; Andrea Vernon and Lenoar Foster.
- Chapter 9. Motivating Environmentally Responsible Behavior Through Service-Learning; Beth A. Covitt.
- Chapter 10. Service-Learning and Academic Outcomes in an Undergraduate Child Development Course; Kari Knutson Miller, Shu-Chen Yen, and Nicole Merino.
- Part V. Future Directions in Service-Learning Research.
- Chapter 11. Supporting a Strategic Service-Learning Research Plan; Shelley H. Billig and Andrew Furco.
- About the Authors.