New Guide: Service-Learning Guide and Journal: Higher Ed Edition

Posted by on November 19, 2004

SERVICE-LEARNING GUIDE & JOURNAL
HIGHER EDUCATION EDITION

By Robert Schoenfeld

Tel: 206-722-1988 ? Fax: 206-721-3200
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.servicelearninghighered.com/

The new Service-Learning Guide & Journal?Higher Education Edition will help every student organize their Service-Learning project and facilitate their growth in the knowledge and skills they need to help them become civically engaged, productive and fulfilled citizens. The Service-Learning Guide & Journal will aid students in their pursuit of scholastic achievement while guiding and inspiring them to take their service to their community and the nation to a higher level of achievement.

This book is designed to help students research and 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 mission of the Service-Learning Guide & Journal?Higher Education Edition is to:

* Make it easy for faculty to teach a Service-Learning program
* Help students make Service-Learning a meaningful, educational and character-building experience
* Give students the opportunity to document and evaluate the success of their Service-Learning project
* Help students work together to make real and sustainable change in their community, the nation and the world
* Help students connect education with future career(s)
* Help students combine academic learning with service to their communities

Topics include:

* Service-Learning ? A Definition
* Service-Learning ? Key Components
* Service-Learning ? A History
* 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
* Weekly Journals and Progress Charts
* Reflections
* Culmination
* Instructor?s Comments and Evaluations
* Contacts and Service-Learning Websites

The Service-Learning Guide & Journal?Higher Education Edition may be ordered by filling out order form, found on the website at