Title: Successful service-learning programs : new models of excellence in higher education
Description: Service learning offers college students valuable learning experiences in authentic problem definition and problem solving in powerful applications of classroom learning. Contents include ten successful service-learning programs across a range of institution types; strategies, rationales, and priorities in developing successful programs; service learning and comprehensive institutional reform; the most common issues facing service-learning programs; development of a service-learning major; recognition of service learning within the promotion and tenure process; and practical sample documents for designing or enhancing service-learning programs.
Subjects: Universities, Higher Education, Community Networks, Students, Student volunteers in social service, Curriculum, Experiential learning, Community and college, Community-Institutional Relations, Learning, Social Work, Curricula, Service learning, College teachers, Teachers, in-service training