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Service-learning reader : reflections and perspectives on service / edited by Gail Albert and the staff of the Center for Service-Learning, University of Vermont.

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The Center Library 361.37 Ser 1994 146109 Stacks Available -

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  • ISBN: 0937883131
  • ISBN: 9780937883136
  • Physical Description: 375 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
  • Publisher: Raleigh, N.C. : National Society for Experiential Education, 1994.

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Formatted Contents Note: 1. Orientation skills and getting started. Value differences in intercultural communication / by Myron W. Lustig -- Field study as a state of mind / by Jon Wagner -- How knowledge was earned / by Idries Shah -- Landing on the moon / by Deepak Chopra -- Community service work / by Robert Coles. 2. Selfhood and society. From Filtering people : understanding and confronting our prejudices / by Jim Cole -- Finding oneself / by Robert Bellah -- Commitment and meaning / by John W. Gardner -- Reprise : walking each other home / by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman -- Diane Nash / by Catherine Ingram. 3. Interaction, reflection, and dialogue. Learning through questioning in field programs / by Barbara A. Hursh -- Discovering the ecology of human organizations : exercises for field study students / by Timothy K. Stanton -- Experience and thinking / by John Dewey -- Chapter 3 / by Paulo Freire -- Three wondrous answers / by Thich Nhat Hanh.
4. Roots of service. A basic call to consciousness / The Haudenosaunee address to the Western world -- Righteousness, not charity / by Jacob Neusner -- The transformation / by Eknath Easwaran -- On being a good neighbour / by Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Cultivating compassion / by James A. Joseph. 5. Community service. Who's helping? / by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman -- Service and a new world order / by Jesse Jackson -- Professionalized service and disabling help / by John McKnight. 6. Community. Black walls / by Liu Xinwu -- The covenanted community / by Page Smith -- Regenerating community / by John L. McKnight -- Democracy in America / by Alexis de Tocqueville.
7. Ethics, decision-making, and social justice. "I only work here" : mediation and irresponsibility / by John Lachs -- Why care about caring? : the fundamental nature of caring / by Nel Noddings -- The evolution of moral meaning-making / by Robert Kegan -- Private/public morality / by Gabriel Moran -- Love and justice / by June Bingham -- Letter from Birmingham jail / by Martin Luther King, Jr. 8. Global awareness. From person to planet / by Dawson Church -- The blue pearl / by Peter Russell. 9. University of Vermont sample syllabus.
Subject: Service learning.
Experiential learning.
Social service.
Experiential learning.
Service learning.
Social service.
Community engagement.

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