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SERVICE-LEARNING ACROSS CULTURES: PROMISE AND ACHIEVEMENT

Edited by Humphrey Tonkin

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This book, the culmination of a three-year, three-part study funded by the Ford Foundation, explores the effects of international service-learning on the students who participate, the institutions where they study, and the agencies where they perform their service. It tells us that international service-learning is a transforming experience for all concerned, and a means through which we can create citizens and individuals who are responsive to the needs of others, civically engaged, and prepared for a peaceful future based on the globalization of compassion, tolerance, and understanding. The conclusions, based on sound research, provide useful advice to those initiating service-learning; those seeking to make the practice of international service-learning an ongoing commitment of their college or university; and those eager to encourage participation in study abroad programs that immerse students in the foreign culture, thereby making education abroad as rich and beneficial as possible for the students.

Service-Learning Across Cultures: Promise and Achievement edited by Humphrey Tonkin
Funded by the Ford Foundation.
2004. 440 pages.
Price: $16.00
ISBN 0-9701984-8-5
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Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Part 1: Preliminaries
1. Researching the Partnership
2. The Research Plan
3. The Partnership Participants: A Portrait of the Undergraduate Programs - Humphrey Tonkin

Part 2: How Partnership Programs Affect Students
4. The Student Study: Introduction
5. A Cross-Cultural Perspective - Margaret Pusch
6. Beyond the Comfort Zone - Diego Quiroga
7. Making the Strange Familiar: Dealing with Ambiguity - Michael J. Siegel
8. The Partnership Vision
Conclusions: The Student Study

Part 3: How Partnership Programs Affect Agencies and Their Clients
9. The Agency Study: Introduction
10. The Impact of Experience: A Comparative Study of the Effects of International Partnership for Service-Learning Students within Welfare Agencies in Scotland and Jamaica - Susan J. Deeley
Conclusions: The Agency Study

Part 4: How the Partnership Influences Institutions
11. The Institution Study: Introduction
12. Service-Learning and Institutional Priorities: The Philippines - Humphrey Tonkin
13. Service-Learning and Institutional Priorities: Comparisons and Conclusions Humphrey Tonkin
Conclusions: The Institution Study

Part 5: Evaluation
14. Evaluating Partnership Programs - Humphrey Tonkin

Part 6: Next Steps
15. International Service-Learning: A Research Agenda - Robert G. Bringle and Humphrey Tonkin
16. The Future of the Partnership: Leadership, Quality, Service

Appendix: Declaration of Principles of the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership
References
Contributors
Index