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This fifth book in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series continues to expand the discussion of service-learning research and practice. The chapters were selected through a refereed, blind-review process from papers presented at the 4th Annual International K-H Service-Learning Research Conference held October 2004 in Greenville, South Carolina. The chapters focus on topics that address a variety of issues in higher education and teacher education and are organized into four sections.
Introduction; Jane Callahan
Part I. Teacher Education Models, Impacts, and Issues
Chapter 1. The National Service-Learning in Teacher Education Partnership: A Research Retrospective; Susan Root
Chapter 2. The Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Preservice Teacher Education; Jeffrey Anderson and Jane Callahan
Chapter 3. Developing Advocates and Leaders Through Service-Learning in Preservice and Inservice Special Education Programs; Jean Gonsier-Gerdin and Joanna Royce-Davis
Part II. Implementation Models, Impacts, and Issues
Chapter 4. College Students' Preferred Approaches to Community Service: Charity and Social Change Paradigms; Barbara Moely and Devi Miron
Chapter 5. The Job Characteristics Model and Placement Quality; Marcy Schnitzer
Chapter 6. The Relationship Between the Quality Indicators of Service-Learning and Student Outcomes: Testing Professional Wisdom; Shelley H. Billig, Susan Root, and Daniel Jesse
Part III. Methodological Models and Issues
Chapter 7. Reciprocal Validity: Description and Outcomes of a Hybrid Approach of Triangulated Qualitative Analysis in the Research of Civic Engagement; Marshall Welch, Peter Miller, and Kirsten Davies
Chapter 8. Developing Plans for a Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate a Conceptual Model of Service-Learning; Keith Aronson, Nicole S. Webster, Robert Reason, Patreese Ingram, James Nolan, Kimber Mitchell, and Diane Reed
Chapter 9. Civic Engagement Audits: Using Principles of Research to Discover Multiple Levels of Connection and Engagement; Robert Shumer and Susan Shumer
Chapter 10. In Their Own Voices: A Mixed Methods Approach to Studying Outcomes of Intercultural Service-Learning with College Students; Peggy Fitch
Part IV. Future Directions
Chapter 11. The International K-H Service-Learning Research Association: A Call to Action; Shelley H. Billig