Service-Learning Essentials: Questions, Answers, And Lessons Learned
By Barbara C. Jacoby (Paperback, 2014)

Service-Learning Essentials is the resource you need to help you develop high-quality service-learning experiences for college students Written by one of the field's leading experts and sponsored by Campus Compact the book is the definitive work on this high-impact educational practice Service-learning has been identified by the Association of American Colleges and Universities as having been widely tested and shown to be beneficial to college students from a wide variety of backgrounds Organized in an accessible question-and-answer format the book responds clearly and completely to the most common questions and concerns about service-learning Each chapter addresses issues related to individual practice as well as to the collective work of starting and developing a service-learning center
or program with examples drawn from a variety of disciplines situations and institutional types The questions range from basic to advanced and the answers cover both the fundamentals and complexities of service-learning Topics include Determining what service-learning opportunities institutions should offerHow to engage students in critical reflection in academic courses and in cocurricular experiencesBest practices for developing and sustaining mutually beneficial campus-community partnershipsIntegrating service-learning into the curriculum in all disciplines and at all levels as well as various areas of student life outside the classroomAssessing service-learning programs and outcomesThe dilemmas of service-learning in the context of power and privilegeThe future of service-learning in
online and rapidly globalizing environments Service-learning has virtually limitless potential to enable colleges and universities to meet their goals for student learning while making unique contributions to addressing unmet local national and global needs However in order to realize these benefits service-learning must be thoughtfully designed and carefully implemented This easy-to-use volume contains everything faculty leaders and staff members need to know about service-learning to enhance communities improve higher education institutions and educate the next generation of citizens scholars and leaders