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Book SynopsisInternational Case Studies in Service Learning contributes a deeper insight into the multifaceted nature of the subject and its associated perplexities. Featuring authors that have adopted a holistic approach, capturing various interventions and approaches and moving to discover the most accurate path towards gaining a complete picture of how service-learning impacts students, the chapters investigate the issue specifically through an emphasis on problem solving, experiential learning and community engagement.
Shedding light on how successfully service learning has been adopted to the existing curriculum and the emergence of a new breed of students, who are aligned with the needs of the community and undertake collaborative work to solve real world issues, International Case Studies in Service Learning is invaluable to both researchers, teachers and scholars.
Trade ReviewAt a time of increased local, national, and global challenges and rapid changes, this book is timely in promoting the role of service-learning in authentically and actively engaging universities with their communities. This book showcases how service-learning can maximize student engagement and community service scholarship. The various international narratives emphasized in this book assert service-learning as an essential pedagogical avenue to support reciprocity for all stakeholders and sustain partnerships.
-- Dr Ahmad Samarji, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Phoenicia University, Lebanon
Table of ContentsPART I: INTEGRATING SERVICE LEARNING INTO CURRICULUM
Introduction to International Case Studies in Service Learning; Enakshi Sengupta and Patrick Blessinger
Chapter 1. Case Studies of Community-Based Service Learning in Honours Psychology at Rhodes University, South Africa; Jacqueline Akhurst, Lindy Wilbraham, Lisa Saville Young, and Benita Bobo
Chapter 2. Food Systems as a Civic Lens to Design Critical Service Learning; Julia L. Angstmann and Francesca A. Williamson
Chapter 3. Benefits of Service Learning for Student Participants and Older Adult Recipients; Krista M. C. Cline and Catherine Bain
Chapter 4. Service Learning Expereinces in Spanish Universities; María R. Belando-Montoro, María Aranzazu Carrasco Temiño, and María Naranjo Crespo
Chapter 5. The Changing Face of Community Engagement in a Time of Crisis - Insights into an Undergraduate Service-Learning Course; Martina Jordaan and Nita Mennega
Chapter 6. Service Learning as an Approach to teaching Small Business Management; Thomas Behrends and Larissa Binder
PART II: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Chapter 7. ‘Spreading our wings’ towards collaborative service-learning: a South African case study; Hanlie Dippenaar, Candice Livingston, Joanne Arendse, Pieter Boer, Kobie Meiring, and Valencia Cloete
Chapter 8. Nursing Students and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; Julia Mattingly
Chapter 9. A University’s Community Engagement Ethos:Understanding the Capacity for Democratic Community Engagement; Mary Sweatman and Alan Warner
