Table of Contents: Dedication
Foreword
(Ira Harkavy)
Preface
(About the Authors)
Chapter 1. How Widener Developed a Culture of Civic Engagement and Fulfilled its Promise as a Leading Metropolitan University
(James T. Harris, III) pp.1-12
Chapter 2. How Can I Help? The Seduction of Service Learning
(Jo Allen)pp.13-20
Chapter 3. Faculty Motivation, Vitality, and Professional Growth: The Ingredients Embedded in a Service-Learning Faculty Development Program
(Arlene Dowshen and Marcine Pickron-Davis)pp.21-34
Chapter 4. Teacher Education in the Community: Integrating and Transforming Field
Work through Service Learning and Community Engagement
(Nadine McHenry)pp.35-48
Chapter 5. Civic Engagement and Social Work Education
John Poulin, Travis Sky Ingersoll and Paula Silver pp.49-64
Chapter 6. Learning Service: Teaching Literature as Civic Engagement
(Daniel Robinson and Janine Utell)pp.65-78
Chapter 7. The Political Complexities of Establishing a University-Sponsored Charter School as an Interdisciplinary Service Learning Opportunity
(Michael W. Ledoux, Stephen C. Wilhite, Paula Silver)pp.79-92
Chapter 8. The Development of a Community Clinic: How a Signature Project Can Mobilize Commitment to Sustainable Community
(Kerstin M. Palombaro, Robin L. Dole and Jill Black Lattanzi)pp.93-108
Chapter 9. Violence Prevention Initiatives with Communities and Organizations: The Center for Violence Prevention
(Jeannette Wyatt) pp.109-120
Chapter 10. Service-Learning in China
(Melanie Swain, John Poulin, Travis Sky Ingersoll, Heather Witt
and Xu Shan) pp.121-144
Chapter 11. International Service-Learning: The Building Blocks of a Successful Experience
(Beatriz Urraca)pp.145-156
Chapter 12. Let’s Talk about Pedagogy, Research and Practices Centered on Racial Identity Development Theory in Cultural-Based Service-Learning
(Lori Simons, Lawrence Fehr, Nancy Blan, et al.) pp.157-178
Chapter 13. Evaluating the Impact of a University’s Civic Engagement Projects on the Community
(Stephen E. Kauffman) pp.179-208
Index pp.209-218 |