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  • Student Engagement Techniquesby Elizabeth F. Barkley

    Wiley 2009; US$ 40.00

    Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country,yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been readily available. Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies,... more...

  • An Adventure in Service-Learningby Anto T. Kerins

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95

    An Adventure in Service-Learning is a well written and easy to read book which introduces the newcomer to service-learning and provides the seasoned practitioner with an analysis of this most interesting teaching method. Its discussion of learning will be of interest to educationists and its consideration of service will be important to those who are... more...

  • Place-and Community-Based Education in Schoolsby Gregory A. Smith; David Sobel

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95

    Place- and community-based education ? an approach to teaching and learning that starts with the local ? addresses two critical gaps in the experience of many children now growing up in the United States: contact with the natural world and contact with community. It offers a way to extend young people?s attention beyond the classroom to the world... more...

  • Reaching Out Through Readingby Carrie Sorby Duits; Adelle K. Dorman

    ABC-CLIO 1998; US$ 38.00

    Build relationships between students and their community, while encouraging the development of important life skills. This resource helps you integrate service learning into your curriculum. After defining service learning and connecting research to practical classroom applications, the authors give you the tools to launch your own program. Appropriate... more...

  • Service-Learning and Social Justiceby Susan Benigni Cipolle

    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 33.99

    This book provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice. Cipolle describes practical strategies for classroom teachers along with the theoretical framework so readers can deftly move beyond the book to a meaningful program for their schools. more...

  • Organizing for Social Partnershipby David J. Siegel

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 40.95

    The most complex social challenges ? such as post-secondary access and success for under-represented students, diversification of the workforce, poverty, environmental degradation, and global health ? exceed the problem-solving capacity of single organizations or societal sectors. Organizing for Social Partnershipprovides colleges and universities,... more...

  • Toward a Civil Societyby C. David Lisman

    ABC-CLIO 1998; US$ 31.95

    Addressing the need for marshalling the resources of education to help promote a more civil society, this book argues that education has a critical role to play in challenging the dominant views of politics and education. Service-learning, or academically-based community service is seen as a promising educational pedagogy that can help students acquire... more...

  • Thirteen Steps to Teacher Empowermentby Steven Zemelman; Harry Ross

    Heinemann 2009; US$ 24.38

    Experts talk about teacher empowerment, but 13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment is the first book with direct, easy-to-take steps for teacher self-empowerment.Steven Zemelman and Harry Ross draw from research, the experiences of practicing teachers, and the principles of community organizing. Their steps can make your job more fulfilling and help you achieve:?... more...

  • A Learning Community in the Primary-Grade Classroomby Jere Brophy; Janet Alleman; Barbara Knighton

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 49.95

    This richly detailed description and analysis of exemplary teaching in the primary grades looks at how a teacher establishes her classroom as a collaborative learning community, how she plans curriculum and instruction that features powerful ideas and applications to life outside of school, and how, working within this context, she motivates her students... more...

  • Students Helping Studentsby Fred B. Newton; Steven C. Ender; John N. Gardner

    Wiley 2010; US$ 37.00

    This Second Edition of this practical training guide is for the thousands of college students who serve as leaders, tutors, counselors, and advisors for their peers. It continues the tradition of the first edition--considered the standard for training peer educators--by beginning with a fundamental discussion on student growth and development, providing... more...