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 multi-layered and complex, and involve 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, a teaching and learning approach that uses the provision of community service as a vehicle for learning, continues to be of interest to those working in K-12 and higher education. Billig, director of a national study of the impact of service-learning, and Welch (service learning, University of Utah) present selected papers from a

This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research andpractice. The chapters were selected through a refereed, blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-HService-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a varietyof issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections.This volume in the series presents new paradigms that can lead practitioners to create more powerful...

This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research andpractice. The chapters were selected through a refereed, blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-HService-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a varietyof issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections.This volume in the series presents new paradigms that can lead practitioners to create more powerful...

A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning. The papers are divided into sections on: dimensions of service-learning research; theoretical perspectives on service-learning; service-learning and the disciplines; the impacts on service-learning participants; and future directions.

A multidisciplinary investigation of service-learning. The papers are divided into sections on: dimensions of service-learning research; theoretical perspectives on service-learning; service-learning and the disciplines; the impacts on service-learning participants; and future directions.