Authors: Jacoby
ISBN-13: 9780787958909, ISBN-10: 0787958905
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Barbara Jacoby is director of commuter affairs and community service at the University of Maryland, College Park and adviser to the president for America Reads
• America Counts. She is the editor of the groundbreaking book Service-Learning in Higher Education published by Jossey-Bass. Jacoby is a sought-after speaker and consultant on service-learning.
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:
Building Partnerships for Service-Learning is an invaluable guide and essential tool in taking service-learning to the next level by taking partnerships to the next level.
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
The Authors | ||
1 | Fundamentals of Service-Learning Partnerships | 1 |
2 | Developing a Theory and Practice of Campus-Community Partnerships | 20 |
3 | Assessment as a Means of Building Service-Learning Partnerships | 42 |
4 | Developing Collaborative Student Affairs-Academic Affairs Partnerships for Service-Learning | 65 |
5 | Partnerships with Students | 85 |
6 | Developing an Infrastructure for Service-Learning and Community Engagement | 106 |
7 | Partnerships Among Colleges and Universities for Service-Learning | 131 |
8 | Principles and Profiles of Exemplary Partnerships with Community Agencies | 151 |
9 | Partnerships with Elementary and Secondary Education | 174 |
10 | Empowering Residents and Students to Rebuild Neighborhoods: A Case Study | 192 |
11 | Partnerships for Collaborative Action Research | 213 |
12 | Involving Corporate Partners | 234 |
13 | Partnerships for International Service-Learning | 259 |
14 | Civic Renewal: A Powerful Framework for Advancing Service-Learning | 289 |
15 | Building Service-Learning Partnerships for the Future | 314 |
Name Index | 339 | |
Subject Index | 345 |