Learning Through Serving - Christine M Cress

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Christine M. Cress is Professor of Educational Leadership, Higher Education Policy, and Community Engagement at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has conducted professional trainings on curricular integration and the scholarship of service-learning at scores of colleges in North America, Europe, Japan, India, and Nepal. Earlier in her career, she was an academic and career adviser at Western Washington University, Whatcom Community College, and Northwest Indian College. For the last twenty years at PSU, she has directed Master and Doctoral degrees and a fully on-line Graduate Certificate in Service-Learning including facilitation of short-term international service-learning and COIL/Virtual Exchange classes in India, Japan, Morocco, and Turkey. Her cultural privilege is primarily northern European American with Cherokee (non-tribal affiliation) and Sene-Gambian heritage. She is a first-generation college student, adoptee and adoptive parent, and member of a multi-racial lesbian family. These myriad social positions influence her scholarship which addresses intersectionality, systemic oppression, and equity-centered education and community engagement.

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FIGURES EXERCISES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION: Why a Book about Learning through Serving? - Christine M. Cress PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE LEARNING-THROUGH-SERVING PROPOSITION 1. WHAT IS SERVICE-LEARNING? ? Christine M. Cress 2. BUILDING AND MAINTAINING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ? Vicki L. Reitenauer, Amy Spring, Kevin Kecskes, Seanna M. Kerrigan, Christine M. Cress, and Peter J. Collier 3. BECOMING COMMUNITY: Moving From I to We ? Vicki L. Reitenauer PART TWO: LEARNING THE LANDSCAPE, LEARNING THE LANGUAGE 4. GROUPS ARE FUN, GROUPS ARE NOT FUN: Teamwork for the Common Good ? Peter J. Collier and Janelle D. Voegele 5. CREATING CULTURAL CONNECTIONS: Navigating Difference, Investigating Power, Unpacking Privilege ? Vicki L. Reitenauer, Christine M. Cress, and Janet Bennett PART THREE: FACILITATING LEARNING AND MEANING-MAKING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM 6. REFLECTION IN ACTION: The Learning?Doing Relationship ? Peter J. Collier and Dilafruz R. Williams 7. MENTORING: Relationship Building for Empowerment ? Peter J. Collier Mentoring 8. LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE-LEARNING: Leveraging Change ? Peter J. Collier 9. FAILURE WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS: When Things Go Wrong ? Janelle D. Voegele and Devorah Lieberman 10. EXPANDING HORIZONS: New Views of Course Concepts ? Christine M. Cress and Judy Patton PART FOUR: ASSESSING THE ENGAGEMENT EFFORT 11. BEYOND A GRADE: Are We Making a Difference? The Benefits and Challenges of Evaluating Learning and Serving ? Sherril B. Gelmon, Susan Agre-Kippenhan, and Christine M. Cress 12. GLOBAL AND IMMERSIVE SERVICE-LEARNING: What You Need to Know as You Go ? Christine M. Cress, Stephanie T. Stokamer, Thomas J. Van Cleave, Chithra Edwin 13. START ANYWHERE, FOLLOW IT EVERYWHERE: Agents of Change ? Vicki Reitenauer 14. LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: Where Do You Go from Here? ? Peter J. Collier and Vicki L. Reitenauer ABOUT THE AUTHORS INDEX