Building Partnerships for Service Learning

✍ Scribed by Jacoby and Associates

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 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 models, and practical tools needed to make service-learning succeed.Comprehensive in scope, Building Partnerships for Service-Learning includes: Fundamentals and frameworks for developing sustainable partnerships Assessment as a partnership-building process The complex dynamics of collaboration between academic affairs and student affairs 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 Partnerships for collaborative action research Exploring the challenges and benefits of corporate and international partnerships The dynamic relationship of service-learning and the civic renewal of higher education Building Partnerships for Service-Learning is the essential guide to taking service-learning and partnerships to the next level.

✦ Table of Contents

Building Partnerships for Service-Learning......Page 5
Contents......Page 11
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 19
The Authors......Page 25
1 Fundamentals of Service-Learning Partnerships......Page 39
2 Developing a Theory and Practice of Campus-Community Partnerships......Page 58
3 Assessment as a Means of Building Service-Learning Partnerships......Page 80
4 Developing Collaborative Student Affairs–Academic Affairs Partnerships for Service-Learning......Page 103
5 Partnerships with Students......Page 123
6 Developing an Infrastructure for Service-Learning and Community Engagement......Page 144
7 Partnerships Among Colleges and Universities for Service-Learning......Page 169
8 Principles and Profiles of Exemplary Partnerships with Community Agencies......Page 189
9 Partnerships with Elementary and Secondary Education......Page 212
10 Empowering Residents and Students to Rebuild Neighborhoods: A Case Study......Page 230
11 Partnerships for Collaborative Action Research......Page 251
12 Involving Corporate Partners......Page 272
13 Partnerships for International Service-Learning......Page 297
14 Civic Renewal: A Powerful Framework for Advancing Service-Learning......Page 327
15 Building Service-Learning Partnerships for the Future......Page 352
Name Index......Page 377
Subject Index......Page 383