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