To Serve and Learn
The Spirit of Community in Liberal Education
Will be published approx. on 1. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 181 pages
978-0-8204-3450-6 (ISBN)
Description
Written by faculty, staff, and students from ten exemplary programs in service-learning at selected liberal arts colleges across the country, this collection of essays addresses vital issues in liberal learning and education for community. Its focus is the creation of educational goals and strategies for developing a service curriculum and for assuring an integral role for service-learning within distinctive institutional settings. This book highlights intimate connections between theory and practice with a shared emphasis on critical/reflective inquiry, social responsibility, and empowerment.
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Persons
The Editors: Joseph L. DeVitis is a professor of education and human development at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Past president of the American Educational Studies Association and the Council of Learned Societies in Education, his books include Theories of Moral Development (Choice Award); Women, Culture and Morality (Peter Lang 1987); Building Bridges for Educational Reform: New Approaches to Teacher Education;Helping and Intervention; Competition in Education; School Reform in the Deep South: A Critical Appraisal (Choice Award); and The Success Ethic, Education, and the American Dream.
Robert W. Johns is an associate professor of education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has published in such journals as Theory and Research in Social Education, Art Education, Social Education, and Educational Studies, principally in the areas of teaching history, civic and global education, and school reform. He contributed the chapter, «Bill Clinton and Arkansas: Can Political Leaders Reform Schools?» in School Reform in the Deep South (David J. Vold and Joseph L. DeVitis, eds.).
Douglas J. Simpson is a professor and dean of education at Texas Christian University. President of the Council of Learned Societies in Education and the Society of Professors of Education, his books include The Pedagodfathers, The Teacher as Philosopher, and The Educated Person. He has published in such journals as Educational Foundations, Educational Studies, Teacher Education Quarterly, Journal of Teacher Education, The Teacher Educator, Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, Negro Educational Review, British Journal of Educational Studies, International Education, and Journal of Thought.
Robert W. Johns is an associate professor of education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has published in such journals as Theory and Research in Social Education, Art Education, Social Education, and Educational Studies, principally in the areas of teaching history, civic and global education, and school reform. He contributed the chapter, «Bill Clinton and Arkansas: Can Political Leaders Reform Schools?» in School Reform in the Deep South (David J. Vold and Joseph L. DeVitis, eds.).
Douglas J. Simpson is a professor and dean of education at Texas Christian University. President of the Council of Learned Societies in Education and the Society of Professors of Education, his books include The Pedagodfathers, The Teacher as Philosopher, and The Educated Person. He has published in such journals as Educational Foundations, Educational Studies, Teacher Education Quarterly, Journal of Teacher Education, The Teacher Educator, Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, Negro Educational Review, British Journal of Educational Studies, International Education, and Journal of Thought.