Service
Learning
Appalachian
Studies Association
The Appalachian Studies Association's mission is to encourage study,
advance scholarship, disseminate information, and enhance communication
between Appalachian peoples, their communities, governmental organizations,
and educational institutions.ocuments in this section have been formatted
so that they may be printed and used as a reference.
How Service Learning Affects Students
The two major goals of this study were: 1) to explore the comparative
effects of service learning and community service on the cognitive and
affective development of college undergraduates and 2) to enhance our
understanding of how learning is enhanced by service.
Tool Kit for Service Learning in Political Science
In
recent years, the service-learning field has exploded in all sorts of
interesting ways, and we believe that political scientists should be
active participants in this field.
Western
Region Campus Compact Consortium
The Western Region Campus Compact Consortium is a four-state coalition
of college and university Presidents and Chancellors that seeks to increase
campus-wide participation in community and public service, and to integrate
service-learning as a valued component of higher education.
National Service-Learning
Exchange
The
National Service-Learning Exchange supports high quality service-learning
programs in schools, colleges and universities, and community organizations.
Educator's Guide to Service-Learning Program Evaluation (PDF file)
Service-learning
has been demonstrated to be an effective educational strategy and can
have powerful effects on students' academic performance, personal/social
development, civic engagement, and career knowledge. Any individual
service-learning program, however, may or may not be successful in achieving
its desired outcomes. While much is known about which strategies are
effective, it is only in implementing service-learning activities that
you can know with assurance the degree to which any individual program
will succeed.
Service-Learning and Communication: A
Disciplinary Toolkit (PDF file)
Service-Learning
and Communication : A Disciplinary Toolkit
Work Pages And Checklists To Help You
Get Started And Keep You Going (PDF file)
The
purpose of these work pages is to help you clarify your goals and keep
track of project details. You will need to figure out specifics on your
own. There work pages are divided into four key areas:
Understanding Reflection in Service Learning
In
service learning, we look to develop processes that allow the people
doing service to bend the metaphorical light of their experiences back
onto their minds -- to make careful considerations about what their
experience were all about: what did they see, who did they meet, why
is there a need for such services in the first place, etc. The act of
reflection, therefore, becomes crucial to their education. It serves
as the bridge between experiences and learning.
Getting Started
In
order to be most effective facilitators should be purposeful in planning
the reflection component of the service experience. The following factors
should be considered:
What is service-learning… (PDF file)
Service-Learning
is a method of teaching that enriches learning by engaging students
in meaningful service to their schools or communities through careful
integration with established curricula.
Building the Service-Learning Pyramid
Service-learning
is a powerful teaching method that allows students to reflect upon why
such conditions exist and what their democratic responsibilities are
in addressing them. A study by the Higher Education Research Institute
comparing service participants with non-participants showed that participation
in community service positively influenced every one of the 35 measured
student outcomes, which fell into broad categories of academic development,
civic values, and life skills
Service-Learning
Interest
in service-learning has increased rapidly in the past decade as have
the articles, books, reports, websites devoted to this pedagogy. One
of the most frequent requests that Campus Compact receives is for the
newest, best resources on service-learning.
101 Ideas For Combining Service & Learning
As
the title suggests, this site offers 101 ideas for integrating service
learning into different disciplines of study.
The Big Dummy’s Guide to Service Learning
27 Simple Answers to Good Questions on: Faculty, Programmatic, Student,
Administrative, & Non-Profit Issues.
Community University Partnership Service Learning
Offers definitions, key elements of service learning, principles of
good practice, benefits and common questions.
Corporation for National and Community Service
Designing a service-learning program in ten steps.
Reflection
The purpose of this site is to provide guidance to educators on using
structured reflection to enhance the learning from service experiences.
Reflection Ideas from the Center for Service-Learning at Denison
The Center For Service Learning at Denison serves as a connection for
students, faculty and community based organizations that are interested
in Service-Learning partnerships and reciprocal learning opportunities.
Service Learning Toolbox (PDF file)
Work pages and checklists to help you get started and to keep you going.
Volunteer Match
Find a volunteer opportunity for whatever you like doing or post a volunteer
opportunity that you need people for.
