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By Daniel L. Duke

ISBN-10: 0873957881

ISBN-13: 9780873957885

ISBN-10: 087395789X

ISBN-13: 9780873957892

By Ronald L. Krannich

ISBN-10: 1570230870

ISBN-13: 9781570230875

By Maryann Miller

ISBN-10: 0585094535

ISBN-13: 9780585094533

ISBN-10: 0823927369

ISBN-13: 9780823927364

Publication through Miller, Maryann

By Barbara Jacoby

ISBN-10: 1118627946

ISBN-13: 9781118627945

Service-Learning Essentials is the source you want to assist you improve top quality service-learning reports for students. Written via one of many field's major specialists and subsidized through Campus Compact, the ebook is the definitive paintings in this high-impact academic perform. Service-learning has been pointed out via the organization of yank schools and Universities as having been generally proven and proven to be invaluable to school scholars from a large choice of backgrounds.

Organized in an obtainable question-and-answer layout, the e-book responds truly and fully to the commonest questions and matters approximately service-learning. every one bankruptcy addresses matters relating to person perform in addition to to the collective paintings of beginning and constructing a service-learning heart or application, with examples drawn from various disciplines, occasions, and institutional kinds. The questions variety from simple to complex and the solutions conceal either the basics and complexities of service-learning. themes include:

• Determining what service-learning possibilities associations may still offer
• How to interact scholars in serious mirrored image in educational classes and in cocurricular experiences
• Best practices for constructing and maintaining collectively precious campus-community partnerships
• Integrating service-learning into the curriculum in all disciplines and in any respect degrees, in addition to quite a few components of scholar existence outdoor the classroom
• Assessing service-learning courses and outcomes
• The dilemmas of service-learning within the context of energy and privilege
• The way forward for service-learning in on-line and quickly globalizing environments

Service-learning has almost unlimited strength to allow schools and universities to satisfy their ambitions for pupil studying whereas making distinct contributions to addressing unmet neighborhood, nationwide, and worldwide wishes. besides the fact that, that allows you to discover those advantages, service-learning has to be thoughtfully designed and thoroughly carried out. This easy-to-use quantity comprises every little thing school, leaders, and employees participants want to know approximately service-learning to augment groups, enhance better schooling associations, and teach the subsequent new release of voters, students, and leaders.

By Angene Wilson

ISBN-10: 0813129753

ISBN-13: 9780813129754

ISBN-10: 0813129826

ISBN-13: 9780813129822

President John F. Kennedy proven the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. within the fifty years for the reason that, approximately 200,000 american citizens have served in 139 nations, offering technical suggestions, selling a greater realizing of yankee tradition, and bringing the area again to the U.S.. In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, stick with the reviews of volunteers as they make the choice to hitch, attend education, comply with dwelling out of the country and the task, make buddies, and finally go back domestic to serve of their groups. additionally they describe how the volunteers made a distinction of their host international locations and the way they turned electorate of the realm for the remainder of their lives. between many others, the interviewees comprise a physics instructor who served in Nigeria in 1961, a smallpox vaccinator who arrived in Afghanistan in 1969, a nineteen-year-old Mexican American who labored in an agricultural application in Guatemala within the Seventies, a builder of colleges and relationships who served in Gabon from 1989 to 1992, and a retired workplace administrator who taught company in Ukraine from 2000 to 2002. Voices from the Peace Corps emphasizes the worth of functional idealism in construction significant cultural connections that span the globe.

By Warren F. Ilchman, Stanley N. Katz, Edward L. Queen II

ISBN-10: 025333392X

ISBN-13: 9780253333926

"The cross-cultural understandings this publication presents can do a lot to assist us be certain the detailed form and shape American spiritual philanthropy may well soak up the future." ―Christian Century

"The provocative details demanding situations the assumptions that philanthropy is a basically Western or Christian culture, and it clarifies the necessity for added study." ―Choice

An research of ways cultures outdoor the Western culture comprehend philanthropy and the way humans in those cultures try to become aware of "the solid" via giving and serving. those essays research philanthropy in Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and local American spiritual traditions and in cultures from Latin the USA, jap Europe, the center East, Africa, and Asia.

By Samuel Totten, Jon E. Pedersen

ISBN-10: 1607520982

ISBN-13: 9781607520986

A quick narrative description of the magazine article, rfile, or source. This booklet offers a robust and transparent photo of a few of the phenomenal courses designed and applied within the usa to supply younger young people with wealthy, significant, and strong studying actions with neighborhood provider. The ebook is made out of elements with 18 essays and an advent. The essays mirror various adventure. half 1, "Social Issues," comprises: (1) "Social concerns within the heart tuition Curriculum: Retrospect and Prospect" (James A. Beane); (2) "Challenging obstacles: A Unit in constructing an know-how and Appreciation for changes in people with actual and psychological demanding situations" (Pauline S. Chandler); (3) "Implementing an Interdisciplinary Unit at the Holocaust" (Regina Townsend; William G. Wraga); (4) "The Homeless: An Issue-Based Interdisciplinary Unit in an Eighth-Grade type" (Belinda Y. Louie; Douglas H. Louie; Margaret Heras); (5) "Making performs, Making which means, Making swap" (Kathy Greeley); (6) "Teleconversing approximately group matters and Social concerns" (Judith H. Vesel); (7) "Using Telecommunications to Nurture the worldwide Village" (Dell Salza); (8) "New Horizons for Civic schooling: A Multidisciplinary Social concerns technique for center faculties" (Ronald A. Banaszak; H. Michael Hartoonian; James S. Leming); and (9) "Future challenge fixing: getting ready heart institution scholars to resolve group difficulties" (Richard L. Kurtzberg; Kristin Faughnan). half 2, "Service," comprises: (1) "Alienation or Engagement? provider studying should be a solution" (Joan Schine; Alice Halsted); (2) "Service studying: A Catalyst for Social motion and college switch on the heart point" (Wokie Weah; Madeleine Wegner); (3) "The group as school room: carrier studying on the Lewis Armstrong heart university" (Ivy Diton; Mary Ellen Levin); (4) "Incorporating carrier studying into the varsity Day" (Julie Ayers; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend); (5) "Science-Technology-Society: An method of achieving scholar Involvement in neighborhood motion initiatives" (Curt Jeffryes; Robert E. Yager; Janice Conover); (6) "Calling scholars to motion: How Wayland center college places thought into perform" (Stephen Feinberg; Richard Schaye; David Summergrad); (7) "Our wooded area, Their wooded area: A software That Stimulates long term studying and group motion" (Patricia McFarlane Soto; John H. Parker; George E. O'Brien); (8) "Every Step Counts: provider and Social accountability" (Larry Dieringer; Esther Weisman Kattef); and (9) "The Letter that by no means Arrived: The Evolution of a Social issues application in a center tuition" (Robyn L. Morgan; Robert W. Moderhak). (EH)

By David Bornstein

ISBN-10: 0195396332

ISBN-13: 9780195396331

ISBN-10: 0195396340

ISBN-13: 9780195396348

In improvement circles, there's now common consensus that social marketers characterize a much better mechanism to reply to wishes than we have now ever had before--a decentralized and emergent strength that continues to be our greatest desire for recommendations that could preserve velocity with our difficulties and create a extra peaceable global. David Bornstein's past booklet on social entrepreneurship, tips to switch the area, was once hailed by way of Nicholas Kristof within the manhattan instances as "a bible within the box" and released in additional than twenty international locations. Now, Bornstein shifts the focal point from the profiles of profitable social innovators in that book--and groups with Susan Davis, a founding board member of the Grameen Foundation--to provide the 1st basic assessment of social entrepreneurship. In a Q & A layout permitting readers to move on to the knowledge they wish, the authors map out social entrepreneurship in its broadest phrases in addition to in its details. Bornstein and Davis clarify what social marketers are, how their organisations functionality, and what demanding situations they face. The publication will supply readers an realizing of what differentiates social entrepreneurship from usual enterprise ventures and the way it differs from conventional grant-based non-profit paintings. not like the common top-down, model-based method of fixing difficulties hired via the area financial institution and different huge associations, social marketers paintings via a means of iterative learning--learning via doing--working with groups to discover specific, neighborhood recommendations to certain, neighborhood difficulties. most significantly, the booklet indicates readers precisely how they could become involved. somebody encouraged via Barack Obama's name to carrier and who desires to study extra in regards to the crucial positive aspects and large promise of this new approach to social switch, Social Entrepreneurship is the best first position to appear.

By Robert Edenborough

ISBN-10: 0749442948

ISBN-13: 9780749442941

ISBN-10: 0749446153

ISBN-13: 9780749446154

ISBN-10: 159875839X

ISBN-13: 9781598758399

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By D. Bhatawedekhar, Dan Jacobson, Hussam Hamadeh

ISBN-10: 1581313047

ISBN-13: 9781581313048

This exact consultant is loaded with pattern questions, charts, formulation, and frameworks protecting every little thing from accounting ideas to bond pricing, curiosity and trade fee. task seekers can prep for his or her difficult finance interviews with funding banks and funding administration enterprises.