One of the major selling points of service-learning courses is their potential to mutually
benefit communities, universities, and students. Although a great deal of research reports …

This paper describes a service-learning project designed for an upper-level sociology
course in Policy and Social Change. The project, Breaking Ground, had two main goals: to …

Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society uses a historical and conceptual
framework to explain social stratification and social inequality. The historical scope gives …

Significant shifts are occurring in higher education pedagogy, research methodology, and
community development, ones that value civic engagement and experiential learning as …

The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research
questions that can be posed, calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches …

Recent global headlines about suicide attacks, xenophobic rhetoric, systemic gun violence,
and the continued displacement of those fleeing civil war and environmental catastrophe …

Self-efficacy in academic settings is an established correlate of educational
accomplishments with relevance beyond the classroom. It is a socially created propensity to …

Prior research measuring service-learning program successes reveals the approach can
positively affect students' attitudes toward community service, can increase students' …

This paper describes an eight-year service-learning experiment that created four distinct
spaces in which campus and community members meet, reflect, and act together. This work …

abstract Using empirical data from three different community service learning (CSL) courses
offered at a South African university, in this paper we discuss the promises and pitfalls of this …