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Recommended reading
Books
Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education, ed. Gail Gunst Heffner and Claudia Beversluis, Lantham, MD: Univ. of America, 2002.
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, by Barbara Jacoby, San Fransisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2003 | Read review
Service-Learning Code of Ethics, ed. Andrea Chapdelaine et al., Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 2005 | Read review
Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning in Christian Higher Education, by Jeffrey Bouman | Read review
Faith-based Service-Learning: Back to the Future, by Garry Hesser in Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning | Read review
Articles
- Faith, Hope, and ... Sustainability
by David Warners and Jeff Bouman from The Gospel and Culture Project, April 2009
- 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
