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Click Here for Book Review Abstract: Service-learning in higher education combines students' academic coursework with their voluntary work, enhancing students' learning and benefiting the community. The key to unlocking the connections between the theory and practice of service-learning is critical reflection, which is examined in this book along with students' academic reflective writing and assessment. The power and dynamics of service-learning are explored through the construction of a theoretical paradigm and the assertion that it can be extended further to critical pedagogy. Critical Perspectives of Service-Learning in Higher Education takes a refreshingly critical and innovative look at service-learning, employing theoretical and empirical work to shed new light on this approach to education. (From the Publisher)
This paper explores the possibilities and challenges inherent in employing community service-learning as a pedagogy for engaging undergraduates in theology and religious studies courses that contribute to racial reconciliation. The paper summarizes research from the scholarship of teaching and learning on best practices for structuring service-learning projects and processes that hold the possibility of students' genuine engagement with issues of race and the wisdom of the Catholic tradition.
Study used the Measure of Epistemology Reflection to explore impact of service-learning and social justice education on cognitive development. Results showed service-learning courses had a positive impact on cognitive development, while service-learning courses w/a social justice emphasis appeared to have more impact on students’ cognitive development than those without.
What is reflection's role in service-learning? Reflection is a key component of service-learning; in fact, reflection is the link between the service and the learning.
Service-Learning is an engaged pedagogy, premised on experiential education as the foundation for intellectual, moral, and civic growth
Video. Several extended video presentations, from the Merlot Elixer Initiative, analyzying best practices as faculty implement community service learning projects in their courses (however, NOT in religion or theology).
Executive Summary of a study by the Higher Education Research institute (UCLA) to explore the comparative effects of service learning on the cognitive and affective development of undergraduates.
An example of what one large state university is doing to promote civic engagement and service learning among faculty and students, at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
Argues that service learning pedagogy can make the course subject matter more relevant to the student, thus increasing student learning.
Augsburg College’s award-winning service-learning program. Brief statements on topics such as: what is Service Learning? Why and how do I use it in the classroom? Possible projects, resources, etc.