Gebundenes Buch

Successful Service-Learning Programs

New Models of Excellence in Higher Education

Herausgeber: Zlotkowski, Edward

Beschreibung

Service-learning offers college students valuable hands-on learning experiences as they unite with their community in cooperative service efforts. Students and professors who participate in service-learning engage in authentic problem definition and problem solving in powerful applications of what they have discussed in the classroom. In this book, experienced leaders share how they have championed successful service-learning programs that have enriched their campuses and renewed their communities. Each chapter provides a personal account of how these directors of service-learning projects have gained the acceptance and resources to design programs that foster a lifelong student commitment to community service and learning.

Autor

EDWARD ZLOTKOWSKI received his B.A. in English and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. He is Professor of English at Bentley College and in 1990 founded the Bentley Service-Learning Project, an institution-wide program that involves all of the college's undergraduate academic departments, more than a quarter of its full-time faculty, and several thousand students. Zlotkowski has lectured and written on a variety of service-learning topics. He has consulted to Campus Compact and the Massachusetts Commission on Community Services as well as to individual colleges and universities across the country. As a Senior Associate at the American Association for Higher Education, he serves as general editor of a new monograph series exploring the relationship between service-learning and individual academic disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781882982165
• ISBN-10: 1882982169
• Artikelnr.: 22984914

Rezensionen

"This volume is the best defense against the accusation that highereducation has become disengaged from the wider community."
--R. Eugene Rice, American Association for HigherEducation