Sustainability and Social Justice
Future Directions in Campus-Community Partherships: Location of Service-learning Offices and Activities in Higher Education
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Description of the full book:
As a new generation of practitioners engages with service learning, at a time when higher education faces questions about learning outcomes and costs, and in the context of such issues as globalization and the environment, this book poses important questions about practice, institutional sustainability, and future directions. Among these are:
What counts as service learning? What value does it bring to institutions? Is it appropriate for all students? How is globalization impacting service learning?
Divided into three thematic parts, this book successively covers institutional and administrative issues; service learning as a springboard for research; and presents new practices that address emerging challenges and changing student populations.
The contributors review how different institutional types have structured their service learning activities; address the issue of centralization or decentralization; propose better ways to form community partnerships; consider promotion and tenure implications; postulate framing service-learning and community engagement as scholarship; and examine service-learning as a springboard for research.
Further chapters offer a new blueprint for funding to achieve sustainability; examples of international service learning from a European perspective; a case study and framework for using on-line formats to extend the reach of a program; raise the urgent issue of the experiences and contributions of underrepresented students; and present the rationale and processes for developing effective student-led evaluation of programs.
Publication Title
The Future of Service: Learning New Solutions for Sustaining and Improving Practice
Publication Date
8-2009
ISBN
9781579223656
Keywords
globalization, community partnerships, community engagement, online service learning, student evaluation
Repository Citation
Strong, Elizabeth Carmichael; Green, Patrick; Meyer, Micki; and Post, Margaret, "Future Directions in Campus-Community Partherships: Location of Service-learning Offices and Activities in Higher Education" (2009). Sustainability and Social Justice. 364.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_idce/364