Service Learning for Health, Physical Education and Recreation: A Step-by-Step Guide - Softcover

Stevens, Cheryl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736060227 ISBN 13: 9780736060226

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

This new resource provides students with a guide for any type of group service project. A book that the reader will do rather than just read. A student workbook puts students in charge of the project, providing step-by-step guidance through the process, with unique tools, techniques and tips to make a service learning project easy, educational and fun.The 5-step process takes students through how to plan, implement and conduct a variety of service-learning projects. Throughout the process the student group or class learns how to work as a team and how to present themselves as professionals. Students will engage in activities utilizing best practices in student learning that they adapt to their unique project.This book will be well received by students studying leisure, recreation, physical education and health who would use the student workbook to plan, implement and evaluate student participation in a service learning program.Secondary school students would use the student workbook to implement and evaluate their participation in a service-learning program. Community organization professionals would use the workbook as a tool to guide students they work with in a variety of community building projects.

About this title

About the Author

Cheryl Stevens' educational background is in experimental education. She has studied and taught recreation and leisure foundations, outdoor leadership and environmental science. As a committed educator, service-learning has become an essential element in many of her recreation classes over the past 15 years. Stevens inspiration for this book came about by an assignment to teach a class involved in a highly complex service-learning project. Knowing that the project had to be a success, and that the students needed to be the ones doing the work, Stevens combined her knowledge and experience in leadership, teambuilding and organisational development to design this step-by-step process.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0736060227
• ISBN 13: 9780736060226
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128