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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity Press of America, Incorporated
ISBN-100761824553
ISBN-139780761824558
eBay Product ID (ePID)2397818
Product Key Features
Number of Pages246 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCommitment and Connection : Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education
SubjectNon-Formal Education, Education, Christian Education / Adult, Higher, Christian Education / General
Publication Year2002
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Education
AuthorClaudia Devries Beversluis
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-040826
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal378.103
Table Of ContentChapter 1 Preface: James D. Bratt Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Building Community: Creating Social Capital through Service-Learning and Community Development at Faith-Based Liberal Arts Colleges; Listening to Those Who Remember: Service-Learning and Collaborative Research; Reciprocity and Partnership: The Multi Chapter 5 Developing Students: Kantian Moral Education and Service-Learning; Academically Based Service-Learning and the Staging of Community; Lessons in Service-Learning: Dilemma of Guilt, Lesson in Reciprocity; From Tolerance to M.I.N.D. Renewal: Service-Le Chapter 6 Developing Faculty: The Development of an Ethic of Service to a Place: The Calvin Environmental Assessment Program; Transformed Teaching: Service-Learning in a Composition Class- The Assignment of the Lives; Marketing Service: Service-Learning and t Chapter 7 Building Institutional Support: The Development of Academically Based Service-Learning at Calvin College: An Historical Perspective Chapter 8 About the Contributors
SynopsisThis book highlights the work of faculty in many disciplines who have connected service-learning with their teaching and scholarship. The challenge of Christian scholarship in service-learning is to use the scholarly tool of our disciplines, with perspective and goals originating from the faith tradition, to describe how community connections enable us to be agents of renewal in society.