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In Community Service and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads examines the experiences of students as they commit themselves to community service during their college years. The author explores how a student's sense of self may be challenged through involvement in the lives of others within the context of community service relationships. Central to his "explorations of the self" is the role "caring" plays as a source of self understanding and identity development. Drawing upon classic symbolic interactionists such as George Herbert Mead as well as contemporary feminists such as Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings, Rhoads suggests ways in which the self might be reconsidered with an ethic-of-care philosophy at its core. He argues that higher education ought to play a key role in fostering more relational and caring individuals and that community service offers a pedagogical opportunity for encouraging the development of more caring selves. He maintains that as society becomes increasingly complex, diverse, and potentially fragmented, caring becomes a more important facet of one's sense of self than perhaps ever before. It is only through an increasing concern for the other (the essence of caring) that one is able to bridge the relational barriers posed by the postmodern condition.

Service learning --- Student volunteers in social service --- Community and college --- Education, Higher --- Aims and objectives

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This work is designed to provide a solid foundation for the research of various educational topics. This volume offers an introduction to a variety of service learning programs in U.S. public schools and their impact on the student, school and community.

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Service learning --- Civic engagement (Education) --- Community service (Education) --- Community service learning --- Engagement, Civic (Education) --- School-based community service --- Student community service --- Student service --- Experiential learning --- Social service --- Student volunteers in social service --- Research

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This volume represents a breakthrough discussion of the research issues surrounding innovative pedagogies. Using service-learning as its focus, it explores ways in which researchers and evaluators can study a teaching and learning approach that has multiple goals, including both academic and affective development. The chapter authors show how to study a topic that is multilayered, complex, and involves the ways in which individuals make meaning of their experiences. Seven challenges that researchers need to grapple with in studying service-learning are identified and addressed: defini

Education --- Service learning. --- Civic engagement (Education) --- Community service (Education) --- Community service learning --- Engagement, Civic (Education) --- School-based community service --- Student community service --- Student service --- Experiential learning --- Social service --- Student volunteers in social service --- Research --- Methodology.

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Service learning. --- Civic engagement (Education) --- Community service (Education) --- Community service learning --- Engagement, Civic (Education) --- School-based community service --- Student community service --- Student service --- Experiential learning --- Social service --- Student volunteers in social service