Improving Service-Learning Practice
Research on Models to Enhance Impacts
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2005
249 pages
978-1-60752-687-2 (ISBN)
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This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research and practice. The chapters were selected through a refereed, blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-H Service-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a variety of issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections.
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Susan Root | Jane Callahan | Shelley H. Billig
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Research on Models to Enhance Impacts
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Section I. Teacher Education Models, Impacts, and Issues
- 1 The National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership: A Research Retrospective
- 2 The Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Preservice Teacher Education
- 3 Developing Advocates and Leaders Through Service-Learning in Preservice and Inservice Special Education Programs
- Section II. Implementation Models, Impacts, and Issues
- 4 College Students' Preferred Approaches to Community Service: Charity and Social Change Paradigms
- 5 The Job Characteristics Model and Placement Quality
- 6 The Relationship between the Quality Indicators of Service-Learning and Student Outcomes: Testing Professional Wisdom
- Section III. Methodological Models and Issues
- 7 Reciprocal Validity: Description and Outcomes of a Hybrid Approach of Triangulated Qualitative Analysis in the Research of Civic Engagement
- 8 Using Randomized Control Field Trials in Service-Learning Research
- 9 Using Principles of Research to Discover Multiple Levels of Connection and Engagement: A Civic Engagement Audit
- 10 In Their Own Voices: A Mixed Methods Approach to Studying Outcomes of Intercultural Service-Learning With College Students
- Section IV. Future Directions
- 11 The International K-H Service-Learning Research Association: A Call to Action
- About the Contributors
- Index
