Service-Learning and the Liberal Arts: How and Why It Works

By David Craig and Mark Gearan

Book Overview

1 Table of Contents
2 Dedication
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgments
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6 1. Service-Learning in an Ethics Course
Chapter 7 2. Service-Learning: Process and Participation
Chapter 8 3. Too Much of a Good Thing: When Service Interferes with Learning
Chapter 9 4. Teaching the Unteachable: Service-Learning and Engagement in theTeaching of Genocide and the Holocaust
Chapter 10 5. Service-Learning and Public Policy
Chapter 11 6. Does Skill Count? A Reflection on the America Reads Experience
Chapter 12 7. Incorporating Service-Learning in Quantitative Methods Economics Courses
Chapter 13 8. Service-Learning in a Bidisciplinary Course: A Chronological and Conceptual Journey, 1995-2006
Chapter 14 9. Learning about and Helping to Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse through Service-Learning Initiatives
Chapter 15 10. The Role of the Public Service Office in Service-Learning at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Chapter 16 11. Service-Learning Lessons

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739121227
• ISBN13: 9780739121221
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"