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The "Service-Learning Guide & Journal?Higher Education Edition" is designed to help students organize their Service-Learning projects and acquire the knowledge and skills they need to become civically engaged, productive, and fulfilled citizens. In addition, this new Service-Learning resource will assist students in their pursuit of scholastic achievement, while guiding and inspiring them to take their service to their communities and the nation to a higher level of achievement. This book is designed to help your students research, evaluate the source of, and find solutions for problems such as poverty, illiteracy, environmental destruction, disease, crime, teenage antisocial behavior, and civic apathy, on the local, national, and international levels. The purpose of the "Service-Learning Guide & Journal?Higher Education Edition" is to: OMake it easy for the instructor to establish and implement a Service-Learning program OMake Service-Learning a meaningful, educational, and character-building experience for students OProvide students with the opportunity to document and evaluate the success of their Service-Learning projects OHelp students work together to make real and sustainable changes in their communities, the nation, and the world OHelp students combine academic learning with service to their communities The Service-Learning Guide & Journal?Higher Education Edition provides a definition of Service-Learning, presents the history of the concept, and describes key components of a Service-Learning project. Other topics include: OCreating a Better Future OCreating a Meaningful Service-Learning Project OCommitment to the Service-Learning Project OSolving Problems at Their Source OExamples of Service-Learning Projects OInterdisciplinary Service-Learning OResearching the Problem OPlan of Action The book also includes forms that make it easy for students to record and monitor weekly progress, to evaluate what activities were undertaken and how successful they were, to reflect on what they learned while carrying out their Service-Learning project, and space for instructor?s comments and evaluation. In addition, there is a list of useful contacts and Service-Learning Websites. The Service-Learning Guide & Journal?Higher Education Edition is used at colleges and universities across the United States, including: Georgetown University, California State University, Pennsylvania State University, Howard University, Ball State University, South Carolina State University, Grand Rapids Community College, Chestnut Hill College, Johnson Smith University, Midlands Technical College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Columbus State Community College, Texas Christian University, and American University.
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