Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—“Reflecting on Community Partnerships,” “Reflecting on Classroom Practice,” and “Reflecting on Diversity”—so as to represent interdisciplinary subjects, diverse student populations, and differing instructional perspectives about service-learning in higher education. Contributors provide service-learning programs and plans that can be replicated or adapted at other institutions of higher education. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of education.

Implementing reciprocity for collaborative community partnership / Sherrie Steiner -- The move to a more pragmatic democratic civic engagement : universities of the future / Joe D. Nichols -- Reflecting on service-learning experiences : a three-stage model / M. Gail Hickey -- "I am amazed by how much I have changed" : service-learning's potential for transformation / Donna Eder -- Learning from failure : service as a tool for teaching the value of failure / Ellen Szarleta -- Service-learning in dental hygiene education / Nancy Mann -- Service-learning in the professional writing classroom : marilyn cooper's "ecology of writing" in action / Tanya Perkins -- Csd students and service-learning : a literacy experience / Pam Britton Reese -- Document dumpster-diving : students learn and teach aboutlocal museums / Jeremiah Clabough & Thomas N. Turner -- 2012 election experiential program / Robert A. Waterson & Mary Haas -- Carefully reading the texts we assign : the case for service-learning instructors to engage in service / Nicole D. Schonemann -- First-hand interactions with English language learners : win-win learning opportunities for all / Hao Sun -- Utilizing service-learning to confront crime : victimization among refugees and other non-English speaking populations / Jospeter Mbuba -- Expanding multicultural understanding through service-learning : a case study / Sheena Choi and M. Gail Hickey -- Speak out, reach out : infusing multiculturalism and social justice from college to community / Jeneice L.A. Shaw, Brittany J. Shannon, Hannah Greenbaum, and Jennifer M. Taylor -- Service-learning for students in transition / Sarah Jones.