Resources

Best Practices

The following institutions have been cited by Campus Compact for their exemplary practices in the fields of service learning and civic engagement. By exploring their sites you can see how service learning/civic engagement practices can be utilized to enhance virtually any subject matter.

• Miami Dade College Center for Community Involvement
• Raritan Valley Community College Service Learning Program
• Brevard Community College

Library Resources (Books on Service Learning at the JALC Library)

• Teaching and learning through inquiry: a guidebook for institutions and instructors.
  Virginia Snowden Lee LB1027.44.T43 2004
• Learning through serving: a student guidebook for service-learning across the disciplines.
  Christine M. Cress LC220.5.C72 2005
• Where's the learning in service-learning?
  Janet Eyler LC220.5.E95 1999
• Toward a civil society: civic literacy and service learning.
  David C. Lisman LC220.5.E95 1999
• Serving to learn, learning to serve: civics and service from A to Z.
  Cynthia Parsons LC220.5.P36 1995
• Service-learning in higher education: concepts and practices.
  Barbara Jacoby LC 220.5 .S45 1996
• Service-learning reader: reflections and perspectives on service.
  Gail Albert LC220.5.S46 1994
• Academic service learning: a pedagogy of action and reflection.
  Robert A. Rhodes, Jeffery Howard LC221.A23 1998

Assessment Forms

• Community Partner Assessment of Service Learning (PDF)