Service Learning

A Social Change Model Of Leadership Development

Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

The primary purpose of the materials presented in this Guidebook is to facilitate the development of programs for student leadership development on the campus. Also there are other applications of the principals underlying this model that might indeed relate directly to the regular activities of student affairs or academic administrators.

Discovering Leadership through Service

Kris Binard and Lynn Hertrick Leavitt

Rocky Mountain Press, Longmont. CO  (2000)

This book provides faculty and students with information about how to integrate service-learning into leadership courses.  This book includes a brief overview of theories and concepts that support the relationship of leadership education and service-learning. In addition, sample forms and worksheets are provided to assist students and faculty with the design, planning and logistics of service-learning experience.

Ecodemia

Julian Keniry

National Wildlife Federation, Washington, DC  (1995)

This book is the story of how America's colleges and universities are changing their day-to-day operations in response to a growing environmental awareness.

Enhancing The Volunteer Experience

Paul J. Ilsley

Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA (1990)

In this book, Paul J. Ilsley, draws on a four-year study of volunteers in a variety of fields to provide managers with the insights and practical strategies they need to recruit and retain committed volunteers and to build vigorous, active volunteer programs.

Journey To Service Learning

Robert L. Sigmon and Colleagues

Council of Independent Colleges, Washington, DC  (1996)

This book draws on the work of 30 colleges and universities that collaborated in a CIC-sponsored Learning and Service alliance, and another 145 institutions that joined them in CIC's highly successful National Institute on Learning and Service in June 1995.   In engaging with and listening to their stories the author and his colleagues have identified a powerful set of ideas that can guide developing Service-learning initiatives and help existing programs find new ways to partner with communities.

Outward Bound-Schools Of The Possible

Robert Godfrey

Anchor Press, Garden City, New York (1980)

In this book Robert Godfrey gives us, not the philosophy, not the pedagogic theory, but the experience itself. OUTWARD BOUND is from the point of view of the student, complete with all the difficult, tedious, painful, joyful, demanding, and rewarding things that happen during an Outward Bound course.

Recruiting Volunteers A Guide for Non-Profits

Mary Ann Burke, Carl Liljenstolpe

Crisp Publications, Los Altos, CA (1992)

The objective of RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS is to help individuals and organizations define the value of volunteers, evaluate the roles of volunteers, and develop programs to insure the effective use of volunteers.

Service-Learning in Higher Education

Barbara Jacoby and Associates

Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA  (1996)

Combining the most current theory and practice in the field of service-learning with many examples from actual campuses, Service-Learning in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide to developing high quality service-learning experiences both in the curriculum and through student affairs programs.

Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest

Peter Block

Berrett-Koehler Pub., Inc. San Francisco, CA (1993)

Put real meaning into the ideas of service and accountability. Create a workplace where every member thinks and acts as an owner. Re-integrate the managing of work with the doing of work everyone does real work. Replace self-interest, dependency, and control with service, responsibility, and partnership. Raise the productive capacity of work units and economic success of organizations. Find practical ways for democracy to thrive in the workplace. Re-focus staff groups to serve core workers and give choice to the line. Overturn pay and performance appraisal practices that support a managerial class system.

The Effective Management of Volunteer Programs

Marlene Wilson

Volunteer Management Associates, Boulder, Co. (1976)

This book is intended to be practical, rather than academic or theoretical.  It is a sharing of a basic philosophy about people and how to treat them in a way that encourages growth and self-renewal in individuals and organizations.

The Servant as Leader

Robert K. Greenleaf

The Robert K. Greenleaf Center, Newton Centre, MA  (1988)

"Part of the problem is that serve and lead are overused words with negative connotations.  But they are also good words and I can find no others that carry as well the meaning I would like to convey.  Not everything that is old and worn, or even corrupt, can be thrown away.  Some of it has to be rebuilt and used again. So it is, it seems to me, with the words serve and lead." Robert K. Greenleaf

To Know By Experience-Outward Bound North Carolina

Dan & Diane Meyer

Artcraft Press, Raleigh, NC (1973)

The purpose of Outward Bound is directed at discovering one's inner resources and the dignity of one's fellow man. Specifically, the experience seeks to instill self-reliance, physical fitness and compassion as fundamental values recognizing there are few opportunities to formulate such values in an increasingly technological and urbanized society.

Where's The Learning In Service-Learning?

Janet Eyler and Dwight E. Giles, Jr.

Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco, CA (1999)

In this book, Eyler and Giles use two national research projects to track the cognitive development of the participants.  They are looking to see, if in this ever changing technical world, real learning can occur when there is so much at the fingertips that requires no thinking at all.  However, at the base root of it all, the one-on-one relations with people is learning in it's own right.