Books

Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education, ed. Gail Gunst Heffner and Claudia Beversluis, Lantham, MD: Univ. of America, 2002.

Book Review - Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning in Christian Higher Education
by Jeffrey Bouman

Review Essay - Faith-based Service-Learning: Back to the Future
by Garry Hesser in Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning

Selected Commitment and Connection Chapters:

Introduction by Gail Gunst Heffner and Claudia Beversluis

Chapter 1: "Creating Social Capital through Service-Learning and Community Development at Faith-Based Liberal Arts Colleges" by Gail Gunst Heffner

Chapter 5: "International Service-Learning: A Call to Caution" by Kurt Ver Beek

Chapter 6: "Kantian Moral Education and Service-Learning" by John Hare

Chapter 12: "The Development of an Ethic of Service to a Place" by Janel Curry

Chapter 15: "History of the Development of Academically Based Service-Learning at Calvin College"
by Rhonda Berg

Building Partnerships for Service-Learning, Barbara Jacoby, San Fransisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003

Read a review of Barbara Jacoby's 2003 book Building Partnerships for Service-Learning.

Service-Learning Code of Ethics, ed. Andrea Chapdelaine et al., Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2005

Read a review of Andrea Chapdelaine, et al.'s book Service-Learning Code of Ethics.

Articles

From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education
by Robert B. Barr and John Tagg from Change, November/December 1995

A Model for Evaluating Student Learning in Academically Based Service
by James Bradley from Connecting Cognition and Action, Campus Compact, 1995

Ivory towers deserve to fall
by Gaylen Byker from Grand Rapids Press

Environmental Service-Learning: Social Transformation through Caring for a Particular Place
by Janel M. Curry, Gail Heffner, and David Warners from Michigan Journal of Service Learning, 2002

How do we seek justice?
by John Hare from a Chapel Talk on 28 October 1999

Foreword
by David Hoekema from Beyond the Tower: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Philosophy

Educating for Citizenship
by Caryn McTighe Musil from Peer Review, Spring 2003

Tales of Two Cities: Service-Learning as a Christian Educational Practice
by Todd Ream from Growth, Spring 2004

Service-Learning in Christian Higher Education: Bringing Our Mission to Life
by Regan Harwell Schaffer from Christian Higher Education, 2004

The University of Social Justice: Beyond community service, colleges educate for social change
by Melissa Starr from Sojourner's Magazine

Short Term Missions: Are They Worth the Cost?
by Jo Ann Van Engen

For Justice in Shalom
by Nicholas Wolterstorff in Until Justice and Peace Embrace

The mission of the Christian College at the end of the 20th Century
by Nicholas Wolterstorff from Wheaton College convocation speech, 1983

Teaching Responsibility
by Nicholas Wolterstorff from Spectrum, vol. 25, 1993, pp. 9-18

**Also, feel free to browse our Service-Learning Article Index -- all articles are available through Jeff Bouman at the Service-Learning Center.**