Research Guides: Service Learning: Background/Reference

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Background Resources

The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement by Corey Dolgon (Editor); Tania D. Mitchell (Editor); Timothy K. Eatman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781316650011
Publication Date: 2017-02-23
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the history of community engagement and service learning, best teaching practices and pedagogies, engagement across disciplines, and current research and policies - and contemplates the future of the field. The book will not only inform faculty, staff, and students on ways to improve their work, but also suggest a bigger social and political focus for programs intended to seriously establish democracy and social justice in their communities and campuses.
Higher Education Service-Learning Sourcebook by Robin J. Crews
ISBN: 9781573562539
Publication Date: 2001-10-30
Free to read online e-book at Internet Archive. While dated, this guide may provide examples and sources to follow up for more current information. Contents include: (1) A-Z encyclopedia of terms and concepts; (2) Directory of service-learning programs and services at 325 colleges and universities; (3) Resource guide to essential information culled from books, journals, Web sites, and Internet discussion groups; (4) Directory of service-learning organizations, conferences, institutes, and training opportunities; (5) Inventory of awards, scholarships, fellowships, internships, and grants in the field.

Learn and Serve America website archived at Internet Archives
Federal funding for the program ended in 2011. Many resources are still useful and applicable and can lead to more current sources. Visit AmeriCorps for current programs that may include some aspects of service learning and potential renewed funding for service learning.
Barbara A. Holland Collection for Service Learning and Community Engagement (SLCE)
"The Barbara A. Holland Collection for Service Learning and Community Engagement (SLCE) is both uniquely retrospective and comprehensive, offering the world's largest physical collection in the field. This internationally important collection features digital derivatives of materials originally collected by the National Service Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) including: engagement research in higher education, K-12 schools, the community-based organization sector and Tribal Nations."

Resources are mostly up to about 2010 and include: Bibliographies; Dissertation and Thesis; Evaluation/Reflection; Partnerships/Community; Conference Proceedings; Service Learning and Community Engagement Examples; Service Learning Higher Education; and Special Topics in Service Learning (Disabilities, Diversity, Intergenerational, Special Topics-General, Tribal Nations Documents)

A Librarian's Guide to Service-Learning (2005)
A brief annotated bibliography. Available from JSTOR.

Statutory Defintion of Service Learning

Definition of Service-Learning, as codified in 42 USC § 12511(40), the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (as amended through December 17, 1999, P.L. 106-170; Section 101 (23) and reauthorized through the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009):

The term “service-learning” means a method -

(A) Under which students or participants learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that

(i) is conducted in and meets the needs of a community;

(ii) is coordinated with an elementary school, secondary school, institution of higher education, or community service program, and with the community; and

(iii) helps foster civic responsibility; and

(B) that

(i) is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students, or the educational components of the community service program in which the participants are enrolled; and

(ii) provides structured time for the students or participants to reflect on the service experience.