In Service To Your Community

Author : Peter Frumkin,JoAnn Jastrzab
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674046781

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Serving Country and Community by Peter Frumkin,JoAnn Jastrzab Pdf

"Who benefits from AmeriCorps, VISTA, and National Civilian Community Corps? Frumkin and Jastrzab make important recommendations on how to improve the programs and resolve some of the political and administrative issues which have plagued these initiatives in the past two decades."ùJames Youniss, Catholic University of America --

Author : Janet Hume Cox M.Ed.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781796041606

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In Service to Your Community by Janet Hume Cox M.Ed. Pdf

In Service to Your Community is a sometimes tongue-in-cheek informative guide to assist new and veteran staff with their on-the-job training in basically any setting providing community-based services. It is designed to appeal to a wide range of adult learners. In Service to Your Community has two purposes: (1) to provide information to front-line community mental health workers to increase their competency and (2) to decrease staff turnover, which can lead to higher quality outcomes, making the agency more desirable to stakeholders.

Author : Charles Robert Hadlock
Publisher : Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : WISC:89084947480

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Mathematics in Service to the Community by Charles Robert Hadlock Pdf

Publisher description: This book looks at the wide variety of ways in which math, statistics, and math education teachers have incorporated service-learning into their courses. These projects are not just stand-alone community service initiatives, but rather they specifically target the improvement of mathematics skills and insights of the college students in the courses with which they are associated. In some cases, the projects are the major focus of the courses. In others, they may range from an essential component to one of several options. The book also speculates about heretofore untapped possibilities for service-learning, even including courses in pure mathematics. College faculty often may not fully appreciate the wide range of support mechanisms for such ventures even within their own institutions, so the book includes a lengthy chapter on the details of converting a rough idea to a solid action plan, sometimes even picking up financial support and other often unexpected benefits along the way. Creative teachers rarely implement a project in exactly the same way as a colleague might have, so the emphasis here is to display a wide range of successful projects in order to encourage readers to develop some of their own.

Author : Mallika Bose,Paula Horrigan,Cheryl Doble,Sigmund C. Shipp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317907756

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Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning by Mallika Bose,Paula Horrigan,Cheryl Doble,Sigmund C. Shipp Pdf

Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award! Community Matters: Service Learning in Engaged Design and Planning explores issues that resonate with a diverse group of design and planning educators drawn to the challenge of supporting greater community building and empowerment while combining learning with practice. The book explores such questions as: How do we foster mutuality and reciprocity in community-academy partnerships? What conflicts, challenges, limits and obstacles do we face in our service-learning studios and projects? What evidence do we have of our impacts on students and communities and how are we responding? How are we being attentive to the contemporary environmental and societal issues? What is our role as both designers and agents of societal change? How are we innovating to enable greater capacities for individuals, future practitioners and communities? This book provides compelling evidence that educators should be adopting engaged pedagogies, research methods and theories through which they can bring together education, practice and scholarship at the boundary of community and academy.

Author : United States. Office of Civilian Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Civil defense
ISBN : UIUC:30112066828572

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Organizing Emergency Welfare Service in Your Community by United States. Office of Civilian Defense Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children
ISBN : MINN:31951D02465998F

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A guide to starting the summer food service program in your community by Anonim Pdf

Author : Randy Stoecker,Elizabeth A. Tryon
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781592139965

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The Unheard Voices by Randy Stoecker,Elizabeth A. Tryon Pdf

Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. But while the students gain from their experiences, the contributors to The Unheard Voices ask, "Does the community?" This volume explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal relationship between the community and the academy. Using eye-opening interviews with community-organization staff members, The Unheard Voices challenges assumptions about the effectiveness of service learning. Chapters offer strong critiques of service learning practices from the lack of adequate training and supervision, to problems of communication and issues of diversity. The book's conclusion offers ways to improve service learning so that future endeavors can be better at meeting the needs of the communities and the students who work in them.

Author : Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030347284

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Human Development and Community Engagement through Service-Learning by Ntimi Nikusuma Mtawa Pdf

This book establishes community engagement and service-learning as pathways to advancing human development and common good. Using the human development and capability approach as normative frameworks, with South Africa as a frame of reference, the author investigates the theoretical contributions and ultimate benefits of university-community partnerships. In doing so, this book demonstrates that three interrelated capabilities – affiliation, common good professionals and local citizenship – are developed through community engagement and service-learning. Subsequently, the notion of transformative change through community engagement and service-learning is illuminated, particularly when operating within the context of power differentials, inequality and extreme poverty. This book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of service-learning, and its implications for partnerships between universities and external communities.

Author : Janet Eyler,Dwight Giles
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015047480861

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Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? by Janet Eyler,Dwight Giles Pdf

As academic service-learning continues to grow rapidly, practitioners are discovering a pressing need for solid empirical research about learning outcomes. Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? helps define learning expectations, presents data about learning, and links program characteristics with learning outcomes. It is the first book to explore the experience of service-learning as a valid learning activity.

Author : D. Butin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230106154

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Service-Learning in Theory and Practice by D. Butin Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive rethinking of the theory and practice of service-learning in higher education. Democratic and community engagement are vital aspects of linking colleges and communities, and this book critically engages the best practices and powerful alternative models in the academy. Drawing on key theoretical insights and empirical studies, Butin details the limits and possibilities of the future of community engagement in developing and sustaining the engaged campus.

Author : Blake Mycoskie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780679603528

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Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie Pdf

The incredible story of the man behind TOMS Shoes and One for One, the revolutionary business model that marries fun, profit, and social good. “A creative and open-hearted business model for our times.”—The Wall Street Journal Why this book is for you: • You’re ready to make a difference in the world—through your own start-up business, a nonprofit organization, or a new project that you create within your current job. • You want to love your work, work for what you love, and have a positive impact on the world—all at the same time. • You’re inspired by charity: water, method, and FEED Projects and want to learn how these organizations got their start. • You’re curious about how someone who never made a pair of shoes, attended fashion school, or worked in retail created one of the fastest-growing footwear companies in the world by giving shoes away. • You’re looking for a new model of success to share with your children, students, co-workers, and members of your community. You’re ready to start something that matters.

Author : Robert A. Rhoads
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791435229

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Community Service and Higher Learning by Robert A. Rhoads Pdf

Portrays the experiences and development of students as they commit themselves to community service during their college years.

Author : Maureen Kenny,Laura A. Gallagher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313057502

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Teenagers and Community Service by Maureen Kenny,Laura A. Gallagher Pdf

Community service is increasingly recognized as an important vehicle for promoting positive development among adolescents. This book provides teenagers, parents, teachers, professionals, and concerned adults with current and useful information. Included are resources for middle school, high school, and college students. Those organizing and running programs will find a wealth of material for development and improvement, including: • An examination of the characteristics of effective programs, the young people who engage in service, and those who benefit • Practical strategies for those looking to start programs • A look at current controversies, such as mandatory service A chronology provides the historical context for understanding the current status of community service, completing this practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing good community service programs.

Author : Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429934077

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Soul of a Citizen by Paul Rogat Loeb Pdf

Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our voices heard and our actions count. We can lead lives worthy of our convictions. A book of inspiration and integrity, Soul of a Citizen is an antidote to the twin scourges of modern life--powerlessness and cynicism. In his evocative style, Paul Loeb tells moving stories of ordinary Americans who have found unexpected fulfillment in social involvement. Through their example and Loeb's own wise and powerful lessons, we are compelled to move from passivity to participation. The reward of our action, we learn, is nothing less than a sense of connection and purpose not found in a purely personal life. Soul of a Citizen has become the handbook for budding social activists, veteran organizers, and anybody who wants to make a change—big or small—in the world around them. At this critical historical time , Paul Loeb's completely revised edition—and inspiring message—is more urgently important than ever.

Author : Roger N. Reeb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0789030470

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Community Action Research by Roger N. Reeb Pdf

Community Action Research comprehensively explores models for community action research, incorporating quantitative and qualitative research to highlight the advantages to community members as well as the volunteers/paraprofessionals who implement the services. Respected experts present the latest research on the fulfillment of needs for community members as well as the benefits to the volunteers and paraprofessionals, including psychological empowerment, psychological sense of community, and other facets of personal development. This detailed text is carefully referenced and uses several tables to enhance understanding of research data.