Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy (Advances in Service-Learning , V. 1) (Advances in Service-Learning Research) - Hardcover

Brown, Mack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931576572 ISBN 13: 9781931576574

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

A comprehensive exploration of service-learning, this book is divided into five parts: background; theoretical approaches to understanding service-learning; methodological approaches to studying service-learning; impacts and outcomes of service-learning; and epilogue.

About this title

About the Author:

Shelley H. Billig, Ph.D., is Vice President of RMC Research Corporation, Denver, Colorado. She currently serves as director for Research Network portion of the W.K. Kellogg Learning In Deed Initiative, advisor to the National Commission on Service-Learning, and director of several national, state, and local studies of service-learning in K-H settings. She directed a four year technical assistance project for the Corporation for National Service that explored ways in which federal programs can adopt service-learning as a key strategy of educational reform, and she co-authored Linking Service-Learning and Federal Programs (1999). She has also authored K-12 research summaries, and is currently serving as editor for a volume on service-learning methodology and is the editor of this book series.

Andrew Furco is the founding director of the Service-Learning Research and Development Center at the University of California-Berkeley, where he serves on the Graduate School of Education faculty. Since 1994, he has led more than 20 studies of service-learning in K-12 education, teacher education, and higher education. He is currently serving a four-year term as a Campus Compact Engaged Scholar and is a member of the Campus Compact Research Advisory Board, Kellogg Learning In Deed Research Advisory Committee, the AAHE Service-Learning Consulting Corps, the National Service-Learning Partnership Executive Committee, and the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement. He holds a masters degree in Education from UCLA and received his doctorate in the area of Educational Administration from UC Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1931576572
• ISBN 13: 9781931576574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Furco Andrew, Billig Shelley H