Service Learning in Higher Education

Key areas of coverage include:

• Strategies for ensuring that students engage with academic service-learning projects from the initial stages through completion.
• Guidance on embedding an academic service-learning curriculum into traditional coursework to supplement students’ textbook knowledge and classroom experiences to address real-world problems in the community.
• Research confirming the ways in which students learn more and score higher on end-of-the-semester tests when courses incorporate academic service-learning projects.
• Steps to incorporate service-learning projects across various disciplines and coursework to enrich student learning and produce positive outcomes for universities and communities.

Service Learning in Higher Education is an essential resource for professors and graduate students as well as teachers and educational professionals in such varied fields as school and clinical child psychology, educational psychology, social work, pedagogy, educational practice and policy, sociology, anthropology, and all related disciplines.