Service Learning: A Teaching Design - Softcover

McLaughlin, LaVerne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420812068 ISBN 13: 9781420812060

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

This book details service learning as a most promising innovation in educational reform. The book is designed to be used as a supplement to teaching courses on Service Learning. Some forms are included to assist in designing course work. It sheds light on the relationship among the perceptions of university students regarding the impact of service learning on student leadership potential.Several types of community projects are discussed as service learning tools. These projects included literacy-based community service learning and traditional service learning experiences. Service Learning is the integration of community service with academic content of coursework that has been identified by educators as practice that will develop civic responsibility in today's youth. This is a goal that is articulated in many college and university mission statements throughout the United States. There has been rapid growth in the use of service learning research in the past ten years. More information is needed to improve the understanding of service learning as pedagogy on college campuses. This book explores the process of integrating the service experience with classroom learning in academic courses, and its impact on the leadership potential of students.It is clear from the book and earlier research that participation in service learning courses facilitates at least four types of student outcomes. These outcomes include: a greater sense of personal efficacy, an expanded awareness of the world, a heightened understanding of personal values, and an increased level of engagement in academic course work.

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About the Author

LaVerne Laney McLaughlin, Ph.D. is Director of The James Pendergrast Memorial Library at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. She is an associate professor and teaches a course called Service to Leadership. She has also taught the College Life Skills course. She will begin teaching a new course called Freshman Seminar and Service to Leadership at the university in January 2005. Teaching the classes sparked her interest in the area of service learning because of her desire to give excellent service to others in any way possible. She also needed to develop a teaching tool to use in her classroom instruction. She received the B.A. degree in political science, cum laude from Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, the M.S.L.S. degree in Library Science from Atlanta University where she was an Andrew Mellon Fellow and member of Beta Phi Mu. She also holds the Ph.D. in Public Administration and has been a librarian and educator for a number of years. She is married to Frederick McLaughlin, and is the mother of one son, Frederick Laney McLaughlin. She currently serves as campus coordinator for the American Democracy Project which seeks to keep students engaged in civic activities. She has served as a motivational speaker for various colleges and universities and civic organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1420812068
• ISBN 13: 9781420812060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84