Publication: Service-Learning Guide & Journal: Higher Education Edition

• Schoenfeld, Robert Max

The "Service-Learning Guide & JournalHigher Education
Edition" is designed to help students organize their
Service-Learning projects and acquire the knowledge and
skills they need to become civically engaged, productive,
and fulfilled citizens. In addition, this new
Service-Learning resource will assist students in their
pursuit of scholastic achievement, while guiding and
inspiring them to take their service to their communities
and the nation to a higher level of achievement. This book
is designed to help your students research, evaluate the
source of, and find solutions for problems such as poverty,
illiteracy, environmental destruction, disease, crime,
teenage antisocial behavior, and civic apathy, on the
local, national, and international levels. The purpose of
the "Service-Learning Guide & Journal: Higher Education
Edition" is to: Make it easy for the instructor to
establish and implement a Service-Learning program; make
Service-Learning a meaningful, educational, and
character-building experience for students; provide
students with the opportunity to document and evaluate the
success of their Service-Learning projects; help students
work together to make real and sustainable changes in their
communities, the nation, and the world; help students
combine academic learning with service to their
communities. The Service-Learning Guide & Journal: Higher
Education Edition provides a definition of
Service-Learning, presents the history of the concept, and
describes key components of a Service-Learning project.
Other topics include: Creating a Better Future; Creating a
Meaningful Service-Learning Project; Commitment to the
Service-Learning Project; Solving Problems at Their Source;
Examples of Service-Learning Projects; Interdisciplinary
Service-Learning; Researching the Problem; Plan of Action.
The book also includes forms that make it easy for students
to record and monitor weekly progress, to evaluate what
activities were undertaken and how successful they were, to
reflect on what they learned while carrying out their
Service-Learning project, and space for instructors
comments and evaluation. In addition, there is a list of
useful contacts and Service-Learning Websites.