Academic Exchange Quarterly articles from December 2000

Academic Exchange Quarterly archives from December 2000

EDITORIAL.
December 22, 2000... We, at Academic Exchange Quarterly, have been delighted to see the steady stream of high quality articles on service-learning and its relationship with educational research, practice, and policy in recent years. The growing popularity of...

Reflections of a Practitioner: Service Adds Depth to the Learning Experience for Both Student and Teacher.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... As an applied social scientist, I continually struggle with where my work makes the greatest impact. Through my travels to Central America and Eastern Europe, my struggles as a learner, researcher, and teacher, and my experiences advocating for...

Toward a Critical Service-Learning Pedagogy: A Freirean Approach to Civic Literacy.
December 22, 2000... Abstract This paper argues for an integration of Freirean critical pedagogy and service learning: The questions raised by critical pedagogy can supply a theoretical orientation for students to bring to their service learning experience. At...

PERSPECTIVES.
December 22, 2000... For God and Country It is refreshing to realize that in this modern world of political correctness, there is still one group that we can attack with impunity. Every day is open season on men. The best part about it is, it doesn't bother...

Inquiry and Research as Foundations of Service Learning.
December 22, 2000... Abstract Service Learning programs are at risk of becoming pre-fabricated, do-good postscripts to the school curriculum with little connection to essential academic lessons. In contrast, by building community service and civic action upon...

Service-Learning as the Meeting Place for Ethics and Pedagogy.
December 22, 2000... Abstract Service is, by definition, people seeking deliberately and intentionally to meet the needs of others. Service activities or projects can be described from the perspective of those rendering the service, in terms of the work done,...

Some Reflections on Service-Learning and the Heritages of Liberal Arts Higher Education.
December 22, 2000... The term, service-learning, is in the air at just about any conference involving educators. The range of different kinds of programs reflects the range of different interpretations of what the term itself might mean. In some institutions of...

TIGER'S EYE.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Keep Service-Learning Alive On May 4, 1994, public law number 103-229 was officially enacted. This law was given the short title of School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, and a national infrastructure for service-learning was forged. In...

An Argument for the Stand-alone Service-learning Course.
December 22, 2000... Abstract This paper explores how drawbacks associated with service-learning are minimized or alleviated by the stand-alone service-learning course: inconsequential and short-lived connections between site and college/university, problems...

TEACHING MINDFULLY.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The Spirituality of Teaching This past semester, a colleague who teaches Islamic Studies at California State University, Northridge was talking to his students about Sufism, and one put up his hand to complain that he could not understand why,...

The Design and Implementation of a Strategic Plan for Community Service Learning.
December 22, 2000... Abstract This paper describes the design and implementation of a strategic plan to institutionalize community service-learning (CSL) at the university level. The paper outlines the plan designed at the twenty-two campuses of the California...

Teaching Research with Service-Learning.
December 22, 2000... Abstract Masters-level graduate students in Counseling enroll in a capstone course called "Final Project," a research practicum. In this case study, students used service-learning to collaborate with non-profit community partners in the...

Voices of Service and Learning: Preservice Teachers Writing with Adolescents Labeled "At Risk".
December 22, 2000... Introduction The voices composing this article reflect two significant and related issues in education: the first surfacing in teacher education and the other surfacing in the education of students labeled "at risk." The first issue is...

Faculty Success and Satisfaction in Service-Learning.
December 22, 2000... Introduction Traditional views of learning have long favored "classroom centered" instruction with little interaction required between student and the host community. The concept of service-learning that has infiltrated diverse academic...

Service-Learning: Vygotsky, Dewey, and Teaching Writing.
December 22, 2000... Recently, one of my students asked one of the greatest and also one of the most subversive questions imaginable for a classroom: "Why are we doing this?" This student's comment reminds me that writing classes need to be relevant. In other...

Service-Learning: Developing Community-Campus Partnerships for Physical Therapy Education.
December 22, 2000... Abstract The purpose of this project is to describe how a developing physical therapy program utilizes service-learning activities to provide experiential learning opportunities for students and its impact on student learning....

A CURMUDGEON'S DOTAGE.
December 22, 2000... Change, Change All we ever seem to talk about anymore is change. Oh, the administration might call it progress, innovation, or even transition, but we know it is all about change. In the twenty-five plus years that I have been teaching there...

Beyond the Studio: Service Learning in Dance.
December 22, 2000... Abstract For years university and college dance students have confined their learning to the classroom, studio, and theater. Service-learning, the integration of community service and academic study, offers students opportunities to learn...

The Need for Specialized Clinical Training in Mental Health Service Delivery to Latinos.
December 22, 2000... Abstract Research demonstrates the need for specialized clinical training to develop culturally sensitive therapists who can provide effective mental health treatment for Latinos and other ethnically diverse populations (De La Cancela &...

University Students Mentor Young Writers via E-mail.
December 22, 2000... Abstract Through electronic mail, university students were engaged in a service-learning project in which they mentored middle school students in writing development, study habits, and career planning. Students exchanged weekly e-mail...

Service-Learning in Health Professions Education: A Multiprofessional Example.
December 22, 2000... Abstract The education of health professionals must meet many challenges in a changing health care environment. Both service-learning and multiprofessional education are methods which can successfully prepare students for practice as...

Putting the Service into Service Learning: A Case Study at a Military Service Academy.
December 22, 2000... Abstract Service-learning is a powerful pedagogical tool using community or public service experiences to enhance the meaning and impact of traditional course content. This approach is valuable for two interrelated reasons: 1) it provides...

VALEDICTORY VIEWS.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Thinking Critically and Serving to Learn: New Dimensions One of the most useful and liberating teaching and learning concepts in wide currency in academic circles recently has been that of critical thinking. In a sense the phrase is a cliche,...