Educating Students to Make a Difference: Community-Based Service Learning

ISBN-13: 9780789006844 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 172 str.

Judith G. Chapman; Joseph R. Ferrari

Opis

A collection of ten studies conducted by university-affiliated scholars of psychology addressing the service-learning experience. The first group of chapters address predispositions and motivations among students for such programs. Chapters in the second part focus on student, faculty, and community outcomes. Simultaneously co-published as Journal

Spis treści

Contents An Introduction to Community-Based Service Learning (CBSL)

• Learning to Serve: Predispositions and Motivations
• Parental Helping Models, Gender, and Service Learning
• Collegiate Service-Learning: Motives Underlying Volunteerism and Satisfaction with Volunteer Service
• Community Volunteerism Among College Students and Professional Psychologists: Does Taking Them to the Streets Make-a-Difference?
• Medical Student Motivations to Volunteer: Gender Differences and Comparisons to Other Volunteers
• Service As Learning: Student, Faculty, and Community Outcomes
• Clinical Application of the Service-Learning Model in Psychology: Evidence of Educational and Clinical Benefits
• Faculty and Student Participation and Perceptions of Service-Learning Outcomes
• Attitudinal and Academic Effects of Service Learning
• Student Perceptions of the “Learning” in Service-Learning Courses
• The Unintended Consequences of Volunteerism: Positive Outcomes for Those Who Serve
• Learning Science for Social Good: Dynamic Tensions in Developing Undergraduate Community Researchers
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Joseph R. Ferrari, Judith G. Champion