Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sectionsReflecting on Community Partnerships, Reflecting on Classroom Practice, and Reflecting on Diversityso as to represent interdisciplinary subjects, diverse student populations, and differing instructional perspectives about service-learning in higher education. Contributors provide service-learning programs and plans that can be replicated or adapted at other institutions of higher education. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of education.

M. Gail Hickey is professor of education and director of the scholarship of service-learning atIndiana UniversityPurdue University Fort Wayne.

IntroductionM. Gail HickeySection I: Reflecting on Community PartnershipsChapter 1: Implementing Reciprocity for Collaborative Community PartnershipSherrie SteinerChapter 2: The Move to a More Pragmatic Democratic Civic Engagement: Universities of the FutureJoe D. NicholsSection II: Reflecting on Classroom PracticeChapter 3: Reflecting on Service-Learning Experiences: A Three-Stage ModelM. Gail HickeyChapter 4: I am amazed by how much I have changed: Service-Learnings Potential for TransformationDonna EderChapter 5: Learning from Failure: Service as a Tool for Teaching the Value of FailureEllen SzarletaChapter 6: Service-Learning in Dental Hygiene EducationNancy MannChapter 7: Service-Learning in the Professional Writing Classroom: Marilyn Coopers Ecology of Writing in actionTanya PerkinsChapter 8: CSD Students and Service-Learning: A literacy experiencePam Britton ReeseChapter 9: Document Dumpster-diving: Students learn and teach aboutlocal museumsJeremiah Clabough& Thomas N. TurnerChapter 10: 2012 Election Experiential ProgramRobert A. Waterson& Mary HaasChapter 11: Carefully Reading the Texts We Assign: The Case for Service-Learning Instructors to Engage in ServiceNicole D. SchonemannSection III: Reflecting on DiversityChapter 12: First-Hand Interactions with English Language Learners: Win-win Learning Opportunities for AllHao SunChapter 13: Utilizing Service-Learning to Confront Crime: Victimization among Refugees and other Non-English speaking PopulationsJospeter MbubaChapter 14: Expanding Multicultural Understanding through Service-Learning: A Case StudySheena Choi and M. Gail HickeyChapter 15: Speak Out, Reach Out: Infusing Multiculturalism and Social Justice from College to CommunityJeneice L. A. Shaw, Brittany J. Shannon, Hannah Greenbaum, and Jennifer M. TaylorChapter 16: Service-Learning for Students in TransitionSarah Jones