The Unheard Voices : Community Organizations and Service Learning /


edited by Randy Stoecker and Elizabeth A. Tryon, with Amy Hilgendorf.
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Philadelphia : : Temple University Press, , 2009.
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211pages
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Unheard voices : community organizations and service learning / Randy Stoecker and Beth Tryon -- Motivations of community organizations for service learning / Shannon M. Bell and Rebecca Carlson -- Finding the best fit : how organizations select service learners / Cassandra Garcia ... [et al.] -- The challenge of short-term service learning / Amy Martin, Kristy Seblonka, and Elizabeth Tryon -- Managing service learners : training, supervising, and evaluating / Jason Gonzalez and Barbara Golden -- The heart of partnership : communication and relationships / Elizabeth Tryon, Amy Hilgendorf, and Ian Scott -- Service learning in context : the challenge of diversity / Cynthia Lin ... [et al.] -- One director's voice / Amy S. Mondlach -- Principles for success in service learning : the three Cs / Dadit Hidayat, Samuel Pratsch, and Randy Stoecker -- The community standards for service learning / Randy Stoecker and Elizabeth Tryon -- The two futures of service learning / Randy Stoecker and Elizabeth Tryon.. - Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. But while the students gain from their experiences, the contributors to The Unheard Voices ask, ""Does the community?""This volume explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal relationship between the community and the academy. Using eye-opening interviews with community-organization staff members, The Unheard Voices challenges assumptions about
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1-282-11563-4. - 1-59213-996-5. - 9786612115639

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