For Service-Learning Ideas and Examples: SLICE is an easy-to-search database full of hundreds of high-quality service-learning lesson plans, syllabi, and project ideas. Lesson plans were submitted by educators and service-learning practitioners.
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For faculty and/or agencies: developing a service learning project for your agency, check out this video.
Saint Mary's College of California, a third cohort Social Innovation Generation: Student Leadership Initiative subgrantee, has created a valuable resource for community partners and faculty who are developing service-learning programs with college students in mind:
In addition to the following online resources the Center for Service Learning maintains an extensive library of materials related to service learning and civic engagement, including professional journals and books by experts in the field. See list below for materials.
Books and DVDs
Title |
Author |
House by House Block by Block- The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods |
Alexander Von Hoffman |
Up and Running: A Step-By-Step Guide |
Campus Compact- Brown University |
Integrating Service Learning and Multicultural Education in Colleges and Universitites |
Carolyn R. O'Grady |
Service Learning Companion |
Dawn Duncan |
Students as Colleagues |
Edward Zlotkowski |
Gender Identity, and Violence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service-Learning |
Geraldine B. Stahly |
Fostering Critical Reflection in Adulthood : A Guide… |
Jack Mezirow and Associates |
Learning As Transformation |
Jack Mezirow and Associates |
The Promise of Partnerships |
Jim Scheibel, Erin M Bowley, Steven Jones |
Engaging Ideas: The professor's guide to integrating writing, thinking, and active learning in the classroon |
John. C. Bean |
Race, Poverty, and Social Justice:Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service-Learning |
Jose. Z. Calderon |
Fundamentals of Service-Learning Course Intruction |
Kerrisa Heffernan, Ed.D |
Engaging Departments:Moving Faculty Culture from Private… |
Kevin Kecskes |
Invisible Punishment:The Collateral Cosequences of Mass Imprisonment |
Marc Mauer |
Service-Learning Course Design for Community Colleges |
Marina Baratian, Donna Killian Duffy… |
Why community Matters:Connecting Education with Civic Life |
Nicholas V Longo |
Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum |
Richard M. Battistoni, Ph.D. |
The Engaged Department Toolkit |
Richard M. Battistoni, Ph.D. |
Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement |
Sherry B. Gelmon Dr.P.H. |
Salt of the Eath |
VHS Video |
DVD and Video |
Homeless to Harvard- Based on a True Story |
DVD Video |
God Bless the Child |
DVD Video |
The Power of One |
DVD Video |
Bread and Roses |
DVD Video |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt |
DVD Video |
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story |
DVD Video |
Bowling for Columbine |
DVD Video |
To Live |
DVD Video |
John Q. |
DVD Video |
Before Stonewall |
DVD Video |
Stand and Deliver |
DVD Video |
Monster: Based on a true story |
DVD Video |
