Building Partnerships For Serv
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...
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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:Fundamentals and guiding frameworks for developing sustainable partnershipsAssessment as a means of building service-learning partnershipsThe complex dynamics of collaborative academic affairs and student affairs partnershipsPartnering with students to enhance service-learningHow to create campuswide infrastructure for service-learningProfiles and case studies of outstanding partnerships with neighborhoods, community agencies, and K-12 schoolsEngaging in collaborative action research through service-learning partnershipsExploring the challenges and benefits of corporate and international partnershipsThe dynamic relationship of service-learning and the civic renewal of higher educationBuilding 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.
ForewordPrefaceThe Authors1Fundamentals of Service-Learning Partnerships12Developing a Theory and Practice of Campus-Community Partnerships203Assessment as a Means of Building Service-Learning Partnerships424Developing Collaborative Student Affairs-Academic Affairs Partnerships for Service-Learning655Partnerships with Students856Developing an Infrastructure for Service-Learning and Community Engagement1067Partnerships Among Colleges and Universities for Service-Learning1318Principles and Profiles of Exemplary Partnerships with Community Agencies1519Partnerships with Elementary and Secondary Education17410Empowering Residents and Students to Rebuild Neighborhoods: A Case Study19211Partnerships for Collaborative Action Research21312Involving Corporate Partners23413Partnerships for International Service-Learning25914Civic Renewal: A Powerful Framework for Advancing Service-Learning28915Building Service-Learning Partnerships for the Future314Name Index339Subject Index345
