Reaching Out to Children and Families

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This book will be a companion to students as they face the challenges, struggles, apprehensions, and joys of community service. It provides practical and realistic advice for students on many issues. In addition, the book will be a valuable resource for faculty as they develop and conduct service learning classes. The book will also be useful to community agency personnel as a resource for their supervision of service learning students. -- Robert G. Bringle, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Faculty will find the book useful not only in terms of preparing their students for community service and learning, but also in terms of facilitating students' reflection upon their experiences and merging those reflections with the learnings in the course. This book will make students better learners, faculty better teachers, and the community work more beneficial to all parties. -- Jeffrey Howard, editor of Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning Reaching Out to Children and Families is intended primarily for college students but may be useful to high-school, international, or nonstudent volunteers, and to those who organize or manage student-volunteer programs. * The Chronicle of Philanthropy * The book will be most useful for students who participate in community learning, and for university or college faculty who work with setting up and supervising community learning experiences. * Readings:Ajournal Of Reviews and Commentary In Mental Health * How can we help our students move beyond familiar stereotypes to think more critically about the significance of race and class not only in other people's lives but in their own? This is a question that teacher educators and others involved in community-based learning are asking all over the country. In this excellent book, using students' own voices, Professor Dunlap cogently captures the challenge of preparing students to interact effectively with racially and ethnically diverse populations, and offers useful strategies for supporting student growth in service learning placements. Anyone engaged in service learning programs, faculty and students alike, will benefit from reading this book. -- Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations about Race