Bøger i Service-learning in the Disciplines serien

Part of ""Service-Learning in Disciplines Series"", this book provides an approach to the conceptual and methodological changes that have taken place in the teaching of languages and cultures. It offers suggestions to help students and teachers connect with communities in order to facilitate learning with each other rather than about each other.

Discusses the implementation of service-learning within religious studies and what that discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service learning. This volume contains both theoretical and pedagogical essays by scholar-teachers in religious studies education, and a resource guide.

Concentrates on how service-learning can be successfully incorporated in engineering programs.

Demonstrates how service-learning can effectively be used in the sociology curricula and in class exercises. This book includes discussions in the introduction and chapters, along with appended syllabi that provide ways in which such programs can be adopted in undergraduate sociology courses.

Service-learning and nursing seem an obvious combination. This book provides information, both theoretical and experiential, that describes ways in which nursing incorporates service-learning as a methodology into many diverse settings and with communities of interest.

Service-learning prepares business students to see new dimensions of relevance of their coursework. It provides structures for students to establish caring relationships with others that validate their humanity. This volume aims to provide a way to get involved.

Architecture should be the ideal field of study for applying to service learning since it requires mastery of theoretical concepts for direct application to human situations and needs. This book makes a formal connection between service learning pedagogy and architectural practice, and addresses the related issues, both professional and ethical.

Part of ""AAHE and Campus Compact's"" series on service-learning in the disciplines, this volume takes a look at the programs and practices of hospitality educators who have expertly woven service-learning into their curricula. It constitutes a useful introduction for both newcomers to service-learning and for experienced teachers.

Part of the ""Service-Learning in the Disciplines"" series, this volume explores the important lessons women's history and women's studies hold for the service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women's studies to reconnect with its activist past. It includes essays with examples of service-learning projects in women's studies.

Discusses the pervasive use of service-learning in environmental studies programs and explains why it often is a required part of the environmental studies curriculum. This book discusses the benefits and challenges these programs provide and the consequent natural fit between environmental studies and service-learning.

Representing the 18th of ""AAHE's"" series on service-learning in the disciplines, this book focuses on service-learning strategies and models in biology. It provides strong arguments for using service-learning in biology courses and also gives real life examples of how it has been successfully used in biology curricula.

Tenth in the ""Service-Learning in the Disciplines"" series, this book shows how both peace studies and service-learning have been developing ideas of how social learning takes place as a community process in conflict situations and what the dynamics of peace building are.

Shows how service-learning is not only a strategy for preparing community-responsive and competent health physicians, but also for fostering citizenship and changing the relationship between communities and medical schools. This book provides information to develop and expand service-learning across the continuum of medical education.

Focusing on incorporating service-learning in communication, this title provides an argument on why service-learning should be part of the communication curriculum. It also demonstrates the ways in which service-learning has a natural affinity for the communication discipline.

The fifth volume in a ""AAHE and Campus Compact's"" series on service-learning in the disciplines, this volume focuses on curriculum reform in accounting programs based on goals identified by accounting educators and describes specific implementations across the accounting curriculum.

Intended for faculty and service-learning directors, this guide discusses how service-learning can be implemented within political science and what this discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service-learning. It has chapters which describe the design, implementation, and outcomes of political science service-learning programs.

Discusses the microrevolution in college-level Composition through service-learning. The essays in this volume show why service-learning and communication are a natural pairing and give a background on the relationship between service-learning and communication along with maps.