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Role of Education and Pedagogical Approach in Service Learning is a collection of case studies and interventions adopted by academics across the globe to explain and explore the concepts of social responsibility in education, social justice and civility. In the context of virtual learning spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, it might be viewed as increasingly difficult for students to explore opportunities for mitigating real world societal problems. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how academics have showcased, however, that online learning doesn't mean an end to service learning. Delving into the enhancement potential of online learning, the authors uncover how students can continue to be agents of social change in our more virtual world. Describing the concept of service learning as a model and as a pedagogical tool, the collection offers a framework for service learning that can be inculcated across the higher education sector.

El Aprendizaje-Servicio virtual (APSv) constituye una modalidad innovadora que contribuye al desarrollo del aprendizaje de los estudiantes expandiendo geográficamente su experiencia educativa, a la vez que amplía las posibilidades del servicio local y global, integrando una mediación de la tecnología que salvaguarda y promueve los valores específicamente humanos en todo el proceso educativo. El incremento de esta modalidad se había empezado a producir ya antes de la pandemia de la COVID-19, fruto de la hibridación de los proyectos de APS con las tecnologías digitales. A lo largo de esta monografía, se recoge este campo en expansión desde diversos enfoques y con distintos acentos. En primer lugar, se contextualiza el espacio en el que se desarrolla y profundiza el APSv, esto es, la responsabilidad social en las universidades online y a distancia, pasando, en segundo lugar, a facilitar las bases del marco teórico que fundamenta el aprendizaje-servicio virtual que, a su vez, se desarrollan apelando a diversas experiencias más prácticas, como la que hace referencia a las tecnologías apropiadas o a las aplicaciones móviles. Otros temas importantes que se abordan en el libro tienen que ver con cómo se desarrolla en el ciberespacio el compromiso cívico, la ciudadanía global o, incluso, la empleabilidad. Para finalizar, en el libro también se ha incluido una perspectiva internacional en el desarrollo de proyectos de aprendizaje-servicio, incluyendo el importante proyecto internacional Uniservitate, al tratarse de una modalidad que por sus propias características está llamada a potenciar la internacionalidad de estos proyectos. Para terminar, se aborda un tema clave para muchas universidades, como es la institucionalización del aprendizaje-servicio.

A 2023 SPE Outstanding Book Honorable MentionTransformative Critical Service-Learning offers hands-on tools for implementing, reflecting on, and assessing critical service-learning in classrooms and community spaces. Answering a need from practitioners for a practical tool for making sense of critical service-learning, the authors introduce the Critical Service-Learning Implementation Model as a way to encourage conversations among stakeholders. Materials include specific criteria to examine, examples of application and context, and ways to incorporate the model into reflective practices. Valuing partnerships, reflection, and analysis of power dynamics, the research and strategies offered here provide an entry point for faculty new to critical service-learning, while also offering new ideas and tools for long-time practitioners. Chapters offer particular attention to strategies for engaging students, syllabus development, and reflective cycles. Additionally, the authors offer a model for faculty development in the area of critical service-learning at the institutional level, including suggestions for faculty and administrators interested in increasing engagement with social justice and community spaces. As institutions of higher education are focusing more on the ways in which they can meet the needs of the communities surrounding their campuses, The Carnegie Foundation's Elective Classification for Community Engagement provides a special-purpose designation for higher education institutions with commitments in the area of community engagement. Universities must commit to institutional change in order to improve the outcomes for the communities surrounding the campus. The classification framework represents best practices in the field and encourages continuous improvement through periodic re-classification. Service-learning has been identified as one of the more effective methods for engaging undergraduate and graduate students in community engaged scholarship, which facilitates development of critical inquiry, understanding needs assessment, and deep reflection on inequality. The authors intend this book to benefit university faculty endeavoring to begin or develop service-learning courses, higher education administrators who want to train and engage university faculty in adopting a more community engaged teaching model, and P-12 teachers, who often serve as community partners with higher education institutions to facilitate justice-oriented approaches to teaching their diverse students.Perfect for courses such as: Critical Thinking and Communication/Service-Learning │ Service-Learning Capstone │ Pathways to Effective Community Engagement │ School and Community Collaboration │ Teaching to Transform Society │ Food, Environment, and Sustainability │ Race and the Right to Vote in the US │ Education and Society │ Environmental Education │ Race, Place, and Memory

This practical book provides teachers and teacher educators with concrete strategies for doing community-based work. By reframing the act of teaching to include working for social change, the author pushes readers to see school and community revitalization as reciprocal, not separate, projects. Drawing on the strategies and tactics of community organizers and activists, Charest describes an approach to schooling that addresses the social and economic concerns that students and families in under-resourced communities confront in their daily lives. He uses a decolonial framework to examine how schools can de-center Whiteness and reimagine curriculum and teaching. He also shows teacher educators how they can better prepare the next generation of civic-minded teachers to create a more just and democratic society. This model of intentional community engagement, when initiated by teachers and school leadership, is designed to re-position schools to take up questions of equity, racism, and the long-term health and well-being of individuals and communities. “Charest urges us to imagine a path to teaching and learning that is inseparable from democracy... Let's join the movement.”—From the Foreword by Kevin K. Kumashiro, former dean, School of Education, University of San Francisco“I am overjoyed that Brian Charest is brave enough to take a stance on justice-centered teaching as a relational and political act rooted in the principles of organizing.”—David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago“This book takes up the central problem of our country's failed education system: how to move schooling away from structures that isolate, stigmatize, and disempower students and communities towards structures that prioritize democracy, relationships, and organizing for power.”—Jay Gillen, teacher and organizer

The need for more empathetic and community-focused students must begin with educators, as service-learning has begun to grow in popularity throughout the years. By implementing service and community aspects into the classroom at an early age, educators have a greater chance of influencing students and creating a new generation of service-minded individuals who care about their communities. Teachers must have the necessary skills and current information available to them to provide students with quality service learning and community engagement curricula. The Research Anthology on Service Learning and Community Engagement Teaching Practices provides a thorough investigation of the current trends, best practices, and challenges of teaching practices for service learning and community engagement. Using innovative research, it outlines the struggles, frameworks, and recommendations necessary for educators to engage students and provide them with a comprehensive education in service learning. Covering topics such as lesson planning, teacher education, and cultural humility, it is a crucial reference for educators, administrators, universities, lesson planners, researchers, academicians, and students.

At the heart of education are two fundamental questions: What should we teach? and How should we teach it? Educators striving to design and deliver the best-possible learning experiences can feel overwhelmed by the possibilities. To help them make these critical decisions, Angela Di Michele Lalor identifies five key priorities of a curriculum that matters—practices, deep thinking, social and emotional learning, civic engagement and discourse, and equity.Emphasizing the importance of schools'determining their own path forward, Lalor provides a framework for action by• Describing how each element contributes to a rigorous, meaningful curriculum,• Providing strategies for incorporating each element into daily instruction and assessment, and• Offering reflection activities to identify strengths, needs, and possible next steps.With insightful observations, research-based background information, and real-world examples from a variety of schools and districts, Making Curriculum Matter presents teachers and administrators with a path for reaching their most important overall goal: to provide comprehensive, meaningful learning to all students.

Die Förderung eines (zivil-)gesellschaftlichen Engagements war schon immer ein zentraler Bestandteil sozialpädagogischen Handelns. Mit der gezielten Einbindung pädagogischer Einrichtungen in diese Prozesse werden seit einigen Jahren auch an deutschen Hochschulen zunehmend Wege diskutiert, wie (zivil-)gesellschaftliches Engagement, zum Beispiel im Rahmen einer »Third Mission«, verankert werden kann. In diesem Zusammenhang kommt dem aus dem US-amerikanischen Raum stammenden hochschuldidaktischen Ansatz »Service Learning« eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit zu. Die vorliegende Studie siedelt sich innerhalb der jungen Disziplin der Kindheitspädagogik an und rückt neben einer Diskussion von Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Service Learning den Einfluss institutioneller aber auch kulturell-gesellschaftlicher Konstellationen in den Blick. Dabei steht die Analyse und Diskussion des Potentials von Service Learning im komplexen Zusammenspiel von kindheitspädagogischen Professionalisierungsbestrebungen und vielschichtigen Diskursen zur Öffnung von Hochschulen im Zentrum.

Universities across North America and beyond are experiencing growing demand for off-campus, experiential learning. Exploring the foundations of what it means to learn'out there,'Out There Learning is an informed, critical investigation of the pedagogical philosophies and practices involved in short-term, off-campus programs or field courses. Bringing together contributors'individual research and experience teaching or administering off-campus study programs, Out There Learning examines and challenges common assumptions about pedagogy, place, and personal transformation, while also providing experience-based insights and advice for getting the most out of faculty-led field courses. Divided into three sections that investigate aspects of pedagogy, ethics of place, and course and program assessment, this collection offers'voices from the field'highlighting the experiences of faculty members, students, teaching assistants, and community members engaged in every aspect of an off-campus study programs. Several chapters examine study programs in the traditional territories of Indigenous communities and in the Global South. Containing an appendix highlighting some examples of off-campus study programs, Out There Learning offers new pathways for faculty, staff, and college and university administrators interested in enriching the experience of non-traditional avenues of study.

Los proyectos de Aprendizaje-Servicio (ApS) buscan mejorar la educación a través de la formación de personas comprometidas con la mejora y calidad de su entorno social. Esta guía orientará a toda persona interesada en el ApS, ya sean profesores, familias o cualquier persona del ámbito educativo básico. Para ello, el autor: • Explora las razones para usarlo y sus características básicas. • Profundiza en sus tres elementos clave: las necesidades sociales como punto de partida; el servicio como respuesta a las mismas; y los aprendizajes que se vinculan a este. • Propone diversas formas de concretar y llevar a la práctica los proyectos de ApS. Además, en todos los capítulos se parte de unas preguntas de reflexión iniciales, y se termina con una propuesta de actividad, que lleva a concretar y hacer operativo lo expuesto en el capítulo. En definitiva, una guía completa para iniciarse y profundizar en el trabajo con la metodología del Aprendizaje-Servicio.

Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. By engaging in service or project-based learning with students, you are doing nothing less than changing the world for the better. By letting your students explore and begin to solve real life problems, they acquire deeper knowledge, new skills, newfound motivation, responsibility and engagement.

El libro brinda una perspectiva en profundidad y crítica del aprendizaje-servicio basada en la evidencia empírica. Ofrece una percepción unificada y estimulante de la pedagogía a través del voluntariado y presenta un análisis crítico y en profundidad de la teoría y la práctica del ApS. La lógica que sirve de marco al libro es la de ofrecer a los estudiantes la oportunidad de adquirir un conocimiento más amplio y una comprensión en profundidad de este tipo de aprendizaje experiencial, así como brindar un análisis teórico del ApS, que pueda servir para fundamentar la práctica académica de los docentes. Para lograr este fin, los objetivos específicos del libro son: - Definir y subrayar el aprendizaje-servicio. - Presentar un modelo teórico para este tipo de aprendizaje. - Explorar las funciones potenciales y resultados de este tipo de pedagogía. - Examinar la práctica y efectos de la reflexión crítica como parte del aprendizaje. - Ofrecer ejemplos de bibliografía académica en torno al ApS por medio del trabajo de curso de los alumnos y de los ejemplos-modelo brindados por la experiencia del profesor. - Evaluar los efectos de la reflexión crítica de los alumnos dentro y en torno a la evaluación del Aprendizaje-Servicio empleando evidencias empíricas extraídas de la investigación.

An Adventure in Service-Learning argues that education can provide not just knowledge and skills but it can also encourage the development of values and responsibility Service-Learning is a teaching method unlike any other. It allows students to use their classroom theory to help others through relevant service or volunteering activity. In so doing, it gives students the opportunity to use the experiences of helping others to strengthen their understanding of subject material. Service-learning is like a bridge that connects education with the outside world. It breathes life and clarity into any subject and better prepares students for life after college. An Adventure in Service-Learning is a well written and easy to read book. It introduces the newcomer to service-learning and provides the seasoned practitioner with an important analysis of this most interesting of teaching methods. Its discussion of learning and the role of higher education will interest educationalists and its consideration of service will be important to those who are concerned about community. A passionate belief in education and its possibilities permeates An Adventure in Service-Learning. The book examines service-learning in project management, leadership and management consultancy and provides readers with an understanding of how the method can work in any subject or discipline. It clarifies the need for community and discusses the nature and possibilities of what it means to be human. The book will help to renew and reinvigorate practitioners, policy makers and the education system as a whole.

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.

Combining service-learning and the asset framework in congregational, school, and youth program settings, this resource is designed as a workbook and includes ideas, suggestions, and worksheets to make the most of the asset-building potential of any service-learning program.