Community organisers testify about what service learning is and should be

Randy Stoecker is a Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment in the UW-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He is the author of Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach and Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside (Temple).

Elizabeth A. Tryon is the Community-Based Learning Coordinator at the Morgridge Center for Public Service based within the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously she was a community partner specialist for the Human Issues Studies Program at Edgewood College’s School of Integrative Studies, Madison, Wisconsin.

Amy Hilgendor is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Human Development and Family Studies.

Preface 
1. Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning 
2. Motivations of Community Organizations for Service Learning 
3. Finding the Best Fit: How Organizations Select Service Learners 
4. The Challenge of Short-Term Service Learning 
5. Managing Service Learners: Training, Supervising, and Evaluating 
6. The Heart of Partnership: Communication and Relationships 
7. Service Learning in Context: The Challenge of Diversity 
8. One Director’s Voice 
9. Principles for Success in Service Learning— the Three Cs 
10. The Community Standards for Service Learning 
Epilogue: The Two Futures of Service Learning 
References 
Contributors 
Index