Publication: Building Partnerships for Service-Learning

• Jacoby, Barbara

LCCN: 2002-152153

From the Publisher:
It is clear that service-learning has the potential to
yield tremendous benefits to students, communities, and
institutions of higher education. Increased student
learning has been well documented. As communities gain new
energy to meet their needs and greater capacity to
capitalize on their assets, service-learning enables higher
education to fulfill its civic responsibility. When
service-learning lives up to its potential to lead colleges
and universities to transform themselves into fully engaged
citizens of their communities and the world, its ability to
bring about positive social change is limitless.

To be successful, service-learning must be grounded in a
wide range of solid, reciprocal, democratic partnerships.
Building Partnerships for Service-Learning assembles
leading voices in the field to bring together their
expertise to bear on this crucial topic. Faculty,
administrators, student leaders, and community and
corporate leaders will find this volume filled with vital
information, exemplary practices, and essential tools
needed to make service-learning succeed.
Comprehensive in scope, Building Partnerships for
Service-Learning includes:

    * Fundamentals and guiding frameworks for developing
sustainable partnerships
    * Assessment as a means of building service-learning
partnerships
    * The complex dynamics of collaborative academic
affairs and student affairs partnerships
    * Partnering with students to enhance service-learning
    * How to create campuswide infrastructure for
service-learning
    * Profiles and case studies of outstanding partnerships
with neighborhoods, community agencies, and K-12 schools
    * Engaging in collaborative action research through
service-learning partnerships
    * Exploring the challenges and benefits of corporate
and international partnerships
    * The dynamic relationship of service-learning and the
civic renewal of higher education