A service learning nursing course grounded in social justice principles focused on minority health, poverty, environmental health, and medically underserved populations. Students worked in community agencies, advocated for the underserved, and reflected on the relationship of social justice and citizenship to nursing. (SK)

Describes key elements of service learning: response to the community, student-led decision-making, analytical reflection. Includes a case study of service learning in the Hudson, Massachusetts, Public School District, the main goal of which is to provide students with opportunities to learn the core values of empathy, ethics, and service. (PKP)

This faculty survey found "remarkable" consistency in the various motivators and deterrents to service-learning, both for faculty who do and do not use it. (EV)

An effective service learning program (1) engages people in responsible, challenging actions; (2) articulates clear service and learning goals; (3) allows those with needs to define those needs; (4) expects genuine, sustained commitment; (5) includes training, supervision, monitoring, support, recognition, and evaluation; and (6) encourages…

A gerontology practicum can be a service-learning experience when students are guided in integrating the goals of service and learning and when reflection, analysis, and application are included. A case study at Missouri State University supported the practicum as a service-learning opportunity and identified ways to encourage individual and group…

Study 1 examined required service learning for 371 undergraduate business students; study 2 compared 63 undergraduates in voluntary and required service. Only for students who felt externally controlled did required service diminish future volunteering intentions. Readiness to volunteer moderated the effects of requirement. (SK)

Review of service-learning research shows that, although sustained involvement improves civic development, few schools require substantial service hours. Sensitivity to type of placement makes a difference. Problems of definition and measurement of diverse activities hinder research interpretation. (SK)

Provides evidence that teacher educators are able to devise and implement strategies that can surmount some of the barriers to the use of service-learning in pre-service teacher education. (Author/CCM)

Service learning is an educational experience that provides students with the opportunity to participate in community-based activities and integrated classroom learning experiences. Presents service learning used in an intervention that builds on the inherent strengths of students with emotional and behavioral challenges. (Author)

Discusses Community Service Learning for Unemployed Youth, a program that uses service learning, career development, and community development principles with unemployed youth. The program actively engages young people in their own learning by giving them the opportunity to perform services that directly benefit their community. (Author/MKA)

Examines the theoretical justification for service learning through study of the writings of I. Harkavy, B. Barber, and K. Morton. Suggests that service learning will rise or fall based less on its broad social aspirations and more on how well it serves the goals of education. (Author/SLD)

Explores service learning as a potential antidote to the over-specialization, market consciousness, and civic disengagement that drain the contemporary humanities of their practice and theoretical vitality in a liberal education. Also considers the conceptual terrain of service learning. (Author/SLD)

Argues that Vida Dutton Scudder's pedagogy predicted a college-community connection increasingly popular one hundred years later: service-learning. Outlines Scudder's teaching, settlement work, and the ideologies underlying both; critiques her work with the benefit of 21st-century hindsight; and concludes by reaffirming that in the context of her…

Describes how teachers can use service-learning teaching methods to improve student achievement. (PKP)

Advocates service learning as an integrative strategy for Cooperative Extension. Addresses the following questions: (1) how does service learning, viewed as a form of engagement, differ from traditional extension activities? (2) what benefits might involvement in service learning bring to all stakeholders? and (3) how might extension engage young…