BOOKS FOR TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND POLICYMAKERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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Service Learning for Civic Engagement
Series
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Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning
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November 2011
9781579224189
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Stylus Publishing - Published
29th November 2011 - ISBN 9781579224189
- Language English
- Pages 270 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
- Images graphs & tables
$39.95
Hardback
November 2011
9781579224172
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Stylus Publishing - Published
21st November 2011 - ISBN 9781579224172
- Language English
- Pages 270 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
- Images graphs & tables
$150.00
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March 2012
9781579227258
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Stylus Publishing - Published
12th March 2012 - ISBN 9781579227258
- Language English
- Pages 270 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
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March 2012
9781579227265
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12th March 2012 - ISBN 9781579227265
- Language English
- Pages 270 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
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$39.95
This concluding volume in the series presents the work of faculty who have been moved to make sustainability the focus of their work, and to use service learning as one method of teaching sustainability to their students.
The chapters in the opening section of this book – Environmental Awareness – offer models for opening students to the awareness of the ecological aspects of sustainability, and of the interdependence of the ecosystem with human and with institutional decisions and behavior; and illustrate how they, in turn, can share that awareness with the community.
The second section – Increasing Civic Engagement – explores means for fostering commitment to community service and experiencing the capacity to effect change.
The concluding section – Sustainability Concepts in Business and Economics – addresses sustainability within the business context, with emphasis on the “triple bottom line”—the achievement of profitability through responsible environmental practice and respect for all stakeholders in the enterprise.
"This collection of 11 essays promotes the connection between civic engagement, sustainability and environmental restoration. Divided into three sections, the essays cover how to cultivate environmental awareness in students and their communities, the importance of service-learning as a means of participating in a democratic society, and sustainable business practices (the so-called "triple bottom line"). The essays all stress service-learning in the context of educational institutions and the compatibility of making-money and acting socially responsible. The contributors are mostly professors of education, sociology, environmentally relevant science, business and management."
- Book News Inc.
"Case studies include a course that combined freshman writing with environmental mangagement, and a program in which college students worked with schoolchildren to grow food in urban "learning gardens"."
- The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Acknowledgments
Foreword—Robert A. Corrigan
About This Series—Gerald S. Eisman
Activity/Methodology Table
Contributors
Introduction—Tracy McDonald
Section One: Environmental Awareness
1) Reconnecting to Land, People, and Community: Ecological Lessons From the
Puebla-Alberta Community Service Exchange—Hans-Dittmar Mündel and Karsten Mündel
2) Integrating Sustainability and Service Learning into the Science Curriculum—Susan Sutheimer and Jesse Pyles
3) Sustainability Education Through an Interdisciplinary and Service-Learning Approach—Alison K. Varty , Shane C. Lishawa, Nancy Tuchman
Section Two: Increasing Civic Engagement
4) What’s the Matter with American Democracy? Responding by Embracing Civic Engagement and Sustainability—Scott G. McNall
5) Sustainability Starts at Home: A Hybrid Service-Learning Model for Teaching Environmental Sustainability—J. Marshall Eames and Jeremy Brooks
6) Learning By Doing Across Disciplines: Activism, Environmental Awareness and Civic Engagement—Cheryl Swift and Sal Johnston
7) From Wolves to Wind Power: Fostering Student Understanding of Science, Stewardship, and Civic Engagement—Karen Whitehead and Mary Kay Helling
8) Multiculturalism and Sustainability Education: Engagement with Urban School Communities via Food and Learning Gardens—Dilafruz Williams
Section Three: Sustainability Concepts in Business and Economics
9) Building Bridges and Social Capital through Service-Learning: A Blueprint Model—Curtis L. DeBerg
10) Sustainable Design Practices for the Social Entrepreneurial Business—Connie Ulasewicz
11) Teaching Sustainable Rural Economic Development Using Service-Learning Pedagogy—Beth Wilson
Index
Environmental Awareness; ecological sustainability; civic engagement;