Resources and Web Links

Hard Copy Library

We have a wonderful library of books about service, service learning and civic enagement located in the Key Center and available for check out to faculty and students. Please come by and browse anytime!

• Check out our library catalog here.

Electronic Library

Web Links

• Click here for a list of helpful web links

Service Learning Journals

• Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning & Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement

• Civic Engagement through Service Learning: Assessing Present Efforts and Encouraging Future Success, by Rebecca E. Deen

• The Relationships Between Service-Learning, Social Justice, Multicultural Competence, and Civic Engagement, by Aaron Einfeld and Denise Collins

• Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility: The Civic Learning Spiral, by Caryn McTighe Musil

Community

• Taking the Class to the Community with Service-Learning: Gerontological Macro Social Work Practice, by Judy L. Singleton, PhD, MSW
• Finding Community: Developing and Maintaning Effective Intergenerational Service Learning Partnerships, by Rena J. Karasik and Minetta S. Wallignford
• Student and Community Perceptions of the "Value Added" for Service-Learners, by Lori Simmons and Beverly Cleary

Designing Service Learning Courses

• From the Classroom to the Community-Designing a Service-Learning Course in Political Science, by Deanna L. Hensley Kasitz.
• Course Transitions, Midsemester Assessment, and Program Design Characteristics: A Case Study, by Leigh Z. GilChrist, Meaghen E. Mundy, Peter Felten, and Sharon L. Shields.

Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity

• Intergenerational Service Learning: An Innovative Teaching Strategy to Infuse Gerontology Content into Foundation Courses, by Harriet L. Cohen, Bonnie Hathcett, and Darlene Eastridge.

Faculty

• Faculty Tool Kit for Service-Learning in Higher Education, by Sarena D. Seifer and Kara Connors

Food Insecurity

Growing or Connecting? An Urban Food Garden in Johannseburg, by Jane Wills, Frances Chinemara, and Michael Rudolph.

General Service Learning

• Service Learning Student Manual, from Monroe Community College
• Education Life: Does Service Learning Really Help?, from The New York Times
• The Impact of In-Class Service-Learning on Cognitive and Affective Learning Outcomes, by Shannon Jenkins
• Faculty-Student Service Learning, Research Teams and Political Science Concepts: The Case of a Historic Green-Building Project on a College Campus, by Angela C. Halfacre, Katharine A.Owens, Katherine S. Zimmerman, and Zachary H. Hart
• Employing Service-Learning to Teach Research Methods to Gerontology Students, by Eleanor Krassen Covan.
• A Compilation of General Information on Documenting Service and Service Learning in Higher Education, from California Campus Compact
• Beyond the Classroom: Experiential Learning: Managing Risks, Maximizing Rewards, from the Gallagher Higher Education Practice Group
• Adventure-Based Service Learning: University Students' Self-Reflection Accounts of Service with Children, by Reyes L. Quezada and Richard W. Christopherson
• "Can I Major in Service Learning?" An Empirical Analysis of Certificates, Minors and Majors, by Dan W. Butin
• Creating a Climate for Service Learning Success, by Carol Jeandron and Gail Robinson
• Innovative Practices in Service Learning and Curricular Engagement, by Robert G. Bringle and Julie A. Hatcher
• Why Clinical Programs Should Embrace Civic Engagment, Service Learning and Community Based Research, by Linda F. Smith
• Reclaiming the Democratic Purposes of American Higher Education: Tracing the Trajectory of the Civic Engagement Movement, by Mathew Hartley
• Defining Service-Learning, by Patti H. Clayton
• Service Learning: a Collaboration Success Story, by Chad E. Garland

Health

Community-Based Health Education Intervention: A Service Learning Approach, by Srijana M. Bajracharya

International Relations

Using Service Learning in International Relations Courses, by Heather Heckel

Reflection in Service Learning

• Reflection in Higher Education Service Learning, by K. Connors and S.D. Seifer
• Participator and Appreciative Action and Reflection (PAAR): Democratizing Reflective Practises, by Tony Ghaye, Anita Melander-Wilkman, Mosi Kisare, Phiip Chambers, Ulrika Bergmark, Catrine Kostenius, and Sue Lillyman
• What is Critical Reflection? by Patti H. Clayton
• 10 Tips for Designing Critical Reflection, by Patti H. Clayton
• Schematic Overview of the DEAL Model for Critical Reflection, by Ash, Clayton, and Moses
• EXAMPLE Reflection Mechanism per DEAL: Reflection Session Framework, by Ash, Clayton, and Moses
• Example Reflection Mechanism per DEAL: In-Class Activity to Introduce Meanings of Service, by Clayton, P. H. and Moses, M.G.

Reports

• Service Learning Programs: CAS Standards and Guidelines
• LEAP High Impact Educational Practices 2008
• Campus Compact Annual Survey Executive Summary 2009

Service Learning Program Models by Academic Discipline from Campus Compact

• Program Models Service Learning In The Arts, Theater And Architecture
• Program Models Service Learning In Business
• Program Models Service Learning In Communications
• Program Models Service Learning In Education Departments
• Program Models Service Learning In Foreign Languages
• Program Models Service Learning In Health Fields
• Program Models Service Learning In Humanities
• Program Models Service Learning In International Projects
• Program Models Service Learning In Political Science
• Program Models Service-Learning In Science, Math, Technology, And/Or Engineering
• Program Models Service-Learning In Social Sciences

Social Work and Aging

• Service Learning in Elder Care: Ten Years of Growth and Assessment, by Carol R. Hegeman, Beverly Horowitz, Lynn Tepper, Karl Pillener, and Leslie Shultz
• Meeting Intergenerational Needs Through Service Learning, by Deborah Natvig
• Using the Internet to Facilitate Positive Attitudes of College Students Toward Aging and Working with Older Adults, by Frieda R. Butler and Heibatollah Baghi
• Effects of Intergenerational Interaction on Aging, by Carmen Reguena Hernandez and Marta Zubiaur Gonzalez
• Service-Learning Projects in an Undergraduate Gerontolgy Course: A Six-Stage Model and Application, by Jaime L.K. Anstee, Susan G. Harris, Keri D. Pruitt, and Judith A.Sugar

Students

• Service Works! Promoting Transition Success for Students with Disabilities Through Participation in Service Learning, by Michael P. O'Connor
• Improving Student Learning Outcomes with Service Learning, by Mary Prentice and Gail Robinson
•  Measuring Students' Attitudes Towards College Education's Role in Addressing Social Issues, by James E. Weber, Paula S. Weber and Barney L. Craven