Acting locally
Subtitle: concepts and models for service-learning in environmental studies
By: Harold Ward, volume editor.
Contributors: Ward, Harold; American Association for Higher Education.
Series: AAHE's series on service-learning in the disciplines
Publisher: American Association for Higher Education
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Environmental education -- United States; Environmental sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Student service -- United States; Student service -- United States -- Curricula
Genres: Curricula.
Other titles: Concepts and models for service-learning in environmental studies; Environmental studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Why is service-learning so pervasive in environmental studies programs -- Harold Ward; title: Undergraduate course as a consulting company -- James F. Hornig; title: Challenges of integrating service-learning in the biology:environmental science curriculum at Colby College -- David H. Firmage and F. Russell Cole; title: Evolution of the consultant model of service-learning, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine -- Lois K. Ongley, Curtis Bohlen, and Alison S. Lathrop; title: Ethics of community/undergraduate collaborative research in chemistry -- Alanah Fitch, Aron Reppmann, and John Schmidt; title: Evolving a service-learning curriculum at Brown University, or what we learned from our community partners -- Harold Ward; title: View from the bottom of the heap: a junior faculty member confronts the risks of service-learning -- Katrina Smith Korfmacher; title: Raising fish and tomatoes to save the rustbelt -- Eric Pallant; title: Fulfilling and expanding the mission of a community college -- Janice Alexander; title: Connecting with human and natural communities at Middlebury College -- John Elder, Christopher McGrory Klyza, Jim Northup; title: Educational strategy to reduce exposure of urban children to environmental lead: ENVS 404 at the University of Pennsylvania -- Robert Giegengack, Walter Cressler, Peter Bloch; title: Connecting the classroom and the community: a Southern California experience -- Nan Jenks-Jay; title: Experiment in environmental service-learning -- Calvin F. Exoo; title: Service-learning in environmental studies at the University of Vermont through a senior capstone course on environmental problem solving and consulting -- Thomas R. Hudspeth; title: Industrial areas and natural areas: service-learning in Southeast Michigan -- Orin G. Gelderloos; title: ALLARM: a case study on the power and the challenge of service in undergraduate science education -- Candie C. Wilderman; title: Environmental service and learning at John Carroll University: lessons from the Mather Project -- Mark Diffenderfer.