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This volume represents a breakthrough discussion of the research
issues surrounding innovative pedagogies. Using service-learning as
its focus, it explores ways in which researchers and evaluators can
study a teaching and learning approach that has multiple goals,
including both academic and affective development. The chapter
authors show how to study a topic that is multilayered, complex,
and involves the ways in which individuals make meaning of their
experiences.
Seven challenges that researchers need to grapple with in studying
service-learning are identified and addressed: defining
service-learning; basing service-learning research on strong
theoretical foundations; refining service-learning research design
and methodology; interpreting service-learning results;
disseminating service-learning research findings; improving
service-learning practice; and building funding to support
service-learning research. In addition, practical recommendations
are provided for professionals involved in doing research on
service-learning and more broadly on any form of experiential
education, community service and development, or educational
reform.
"Studying Service-Learning: Innovations in Education Research
Methodology" is an essential resource for researchers who are
interested in studying innovative teaching and learning strategies
and for students who are learning about a range of research
methodologies.
This volume represents a breakthrough discussion of the research
issues surrounding innovative pedagogies. Using service-learning as
its focus, it explores ways in which researchers and evaluators can
study a teaching and learning approach that has multiple goals,
including both academic and affective development. The chapter
authors show how to study a topic that is multilayered, complex,
and involves the ways in which individuals make meaning of their
experiences.
Seven challenges that researchers need to grapple with in studying
service-learning are identified and addressed: defining
service-learning; basing service-learning research on strong
theoretical foundations; refining service-learning research design
and methodology; interpreting service-learning results;
disseminating service-learning research findings; improving
service-learning practice; and building funding to support
service-learning research. In addition, practical recommendations
are provided for professionals involved in doing research on
service-learning and more broadly on any form of experiential
education, community service and development, or educational
reform.
"Studying Service-Learning: Innovations in Education Research
Methodology" is an essential resource for researchers who are
interested in studying innovative teaching and learning strategies
and for students who are learning about a range of research
methodologies.
A volume in Advances in Service-Learning Research Series Editor
Shelley H. Billig, RMC Research Corporation, Denver This eighth
volume in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series includes
eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in
the seventh annual conference of the International Association of
Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in
Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007. The volume builds upon the theme
of that conference: ""Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and
the K-20 Continuum,"" bringing together the work of scholars from
K-12 and higher education to argue for the connection between
rigorous and purposeful research and sustainable service-learning
and civic engagement. Articles range from models for program-level
assessment to examples of significant field-based research projects
to approaches to advance discipline-based sustainable impacts to
connections between civic education and sustainable
communities.Voices of community partners, students, faculty
members, administrators, and discipline- based organizations are
part of the conversation, and each of the essays raises important
challenges for future research that can help to shape, document,
and sustain the important impacts of work in this field.
A volume in Advances in Service-Learning Research Series Editor
Shelley H. Billig, RMC Research Corporation, Denver This eighth
volume in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series includes
eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in
the seventh annual conference of the International Association of
Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in
Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007. The volume builds upon the theme
of that conference: ""Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and
the K-20 Continuum,"" bringing together the work of scholars from
K-12 and higher education to argue for the connection between
rigorous and purposeful research and sustainable service-learning
and civic engagement. Articles range from models for program-level
assessment to examples of significant field-based research projects
to approaches to advance discipline-based sustainable impacts to
connections between civic education and sustainable
communities.Voices of community partners, students, faculty
members, administrators, and discipline- based organizations are
part of the conversation, and each of the essays raises important
challenges for future research that can help to shape, document,
and sustain the important impacts of work in this field.
This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning
Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from
those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning
Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon
in October 2006. The theme of the conference, which is also the
title of this volume, was ""From Passion to Objectivity:
International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service-
Learning Research."" This theme was selected to showcase several
important topics in contemporary servicelearning and community
engagement research. Of key importance is the way in which the
chapters selected for this volume reflect the evolution and
maturation of research in the field of service-learning-moving from
descriptive narratives of the passion for addressing social
problems and inequities that was evident in much of the early
research (and is still reflected today) to increasingly
sophisticated research that draws on multiple methodologies,
presents solid evidence, and offers the basis for replication and
further exploration through future research.
This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning
Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from
those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning
Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon
in October 2006. The theme of the conference, which is also the
title of this volume, was ""From Passion to Objectivity:
International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service-
Learning Research."" This theme was selected to showcase several
important topics in contemporary servicelearning and community
engagement research. Of key importance is the way in which the
chapters selected for this volume reflect the evolution and
maturation of research in the field of service-learning-moving from
descriptive narratives of the passion for addressing social
problems and inequities that was evident in much of the early
research (and is still reflected today) to increasingly
sophisticated research that draws on multiple methodologies,
presents solid evidence, and offers the basis for replication and
further exploration through future research.
The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far
service-learning research has come. Researchers, practitioners, and
students alike have benefited from its dissemination and use the
research to improve practice. The research does not simply inform
educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a
service-learning practice that can transform both individuals and
institutions.
The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far
service-learning research has come. Researchers, practitioners, and
students alike have benefited from its dissemination and use the
research to improve practice. The research does not simply inform
educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a
service-learning practice that can transform both individuals and
institutions.
A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning. The papers
are divided into sections on: dimensions of service-learning
research; theoretical perspectives on service-learning;
service-learning and the disciplines; the impacts on
service-learning participants; and future directions.
A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning. The papers
are divided into sections on: dimensions of service-learning
research; theoretical perspectives on service-learning;
service-learning and the disciplines; the impacts on
service-learning participants; and future directions.
Service-learning is an approach to teaching and learning that can
help students acquire academic skills and knowledge, develop strong
interpersonal skills and self-knowledge, become more civic minded,
and gain understanding of their connected to their communities and
society. This learning and development occurs by having students
provide meaningful service through which they serve as an important
resource to the community and systematically reflect on the process
with their teachers, mentors, and/or advisors. This book series
will gather current research on servicelearning in K-12 education,
teacher education, and higher education. Along with chapters
highlighting the findings of service-learning research studies, the
book will include thought pieces that identify theoretical
groundings of servicelearning and present methodological approaches
for studying service-learning (including teacher action research).
Service-learning is an approach to teaching and learning that can
help students acquire academic skills and knowledge, develop strong
interpersonal skills and self-knowledge, become more civic minded,
and gain understanding of their connected to their communities and
society. This learning and development occurs by having students
provide meaningful service through which they serve as an important
resource to the community and systematically reflect on the process
with their teachers, mentors, and/or advisors. This book series
will gather current research on servicelearning in K-12 education,
teacher education, and higher education. Along with chapters
highlighting the findings of service-learning research studies, the
book will include thought pieces that identify theoretical
groundings of servicelearning and present methodological approaches
for studying service-learning (including teacher action research).
This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as:
challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based
research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning
teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher
education; and more.
Service-learning, a teaching and learning approach that uses the
provision of community service as a vehicle for learning, continues
to be of interest to those working in K-12 and higher education.
Billig, director of a national study of the impact of
service-learning, and Welch (service learning, University of Utah)
present selected papers from a
This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as:
challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based
research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning
teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher
education; and more.
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