Service Learning in Interpreter Education: Strategies for Extending Student Involvement in the Deaf Community (The Interpreter Education Series, Vol. 6) - Hardcover

Shaw, Sherry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563685558 ISBN 13: 9781563685552

Publisher: Gallaudet University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Institutions of higher learning around the nation have embraced the concept of student civic engagement as part of their curricula, a movement that has spurred administrators in various fields to initiate programs as part of their disciplines. In response, sign language interpreting educators are attempting to devise service-learning programs aimed at Deaf communities. Except for a smattering of journal articles, however, they have had no primary guide for fashioning these programs. Sherry Shaw remedies this in her new book Service Learning in Interpreter Education: Strategies for Extending Student Involvement in the Deaf Community.

       Shaw begins by outlining how to extend student involvement beyond the field experience of an internship or practicum and suggests how to overcome student resistance to a course that seems atypical. She introduces the educational strategy behind service-learning, explaining it as a tool for re-centering the Deaf community in interpreter education. She then provides the framework for a service-learning course syllabus, including establishing Deaf community partnerships and how to conduct student assessments.

       Service Learning in Interpreter Education concludes with first-person accounts from students and community members who recount their personal and professional experiences with service learning. With this thorough guide, interpreter education programs can develop stand-alone courses or modules within existing coursework.

About this title

About the Author

Sherry Shaw is Associate Professor in the Department of Exceptional, Deaf, and Interpreter Education and Program Director of the ASL/English Interpreting Program at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1563685558
• ISBN 13: 9781563685552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258