Where's the Wisdom in Service-Learning?

Robert Shumer, Robert D. Shumer

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781681238647, 9781681238654
• eBook ISBN: 9781681238661
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Social Sciences

The service-learning field is 50 years old in the United States. Much has been developed over that time in the fields of K-12 schooling, higher education, and community organizations. People who have been involved in the movement have worked individually and collaboratively to include servicelearning as an effective pedagogy and program in educational settings. They have created opportunities for students, teachers, faculty, and community members to learn about academic content and personal commitment to serving others for social change and community impact.

In this book we hear from individuals who have been involved in the effort for more than 30 or 40 years about what they have learned from their experiences and what wisdom they can share with others who will be involved for the next several decades. Their experience, insight, and understanding will hopefully help younger people to improve and expand on the movement and place service-learning and community engagement as a regular part of American education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Where’s the Wisdom in Service-Learning?
• Where’s the Wisdom in Service-Learning?
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Purpose of the Book
• Foreword
• Wisdom: The Ultimate Goal of Education and Learning
• Acknowledgements
• 1. History and Precursors of Service-Learning Theory, Development, and Research
• 2. The Wisdom of John Duley
• 3. Service Learning: Memories and Perspectives
• 4. Reflections of a Mobiocentric Service-Learning Pioneer
• 5. Half-Full or Half-Empty … Who Knows?: Reflections on Forty-Five Years in Service Learning’s Trenches
• 6. The Wisdom of Jane Szutu Permaul
• 7. A Time to Serve, a Time to Lead
• 8. The Wisdom of Terry Pickeral
• 9. Where’s the Wisdom in Service Learning?: My Story
• 10. Service Learning: A Journey of a Lifetime
• 11. The Wisdom of Bobby Hackett
• 12. From A Chance to the Dance, or From Happenstance to Happening
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors