Service-Learning Internet Resources
http://www.aee.org/publications/journal/aeejourn.html
The Association for Experiential Education publishes a peer-reviewed scholarly journal – Journal of Experiential Education – three times annually as well, as a member e-newsletter, books, monographs and conference proceedings. Their online bookstore carries more than 80 of the field’s leading books, videos and DVDs.
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives/sub.asp?key=245&subkey=1251
A 2007 essay regarding the future of service-learning in undergraduate education by Tom Ehrlich, who is currently co-director of the Political Engagement Project, the Project on Foundations and Education, and the Business, entrepreneurship, and Liberal Learning project for The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Ehrlich is the former president of Indiana University, former provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and former dean of Stanford Law School.
Campus Compact is the parent organization for the service-learning movement. It sponsors awards and programs and is currently promoting a vision of the engaged campus.
http://www.compact.org/resources/service-learning_resources/
Part of the compact.org site, this webpage offers service-learning “toolkits” to academic campus leaders, departments, and faculty for developing service-learning strategies that include community-based work in teaching and scholarship, and encourage civic engagement and progressive change at the institutional, departmental, and classroom levels. Some of the information offered includes examples of service-learning syllabi according to discipline.
Learn and Serve America is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service that supports and encourages service-learning throughout the United States by providing direct and indirect support to K-12 schools, community groups, and higher education institutions to facilitate service-learning projects.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning – the premiere national peer-reviewed journal publishing articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues related to academic (curriculum based) service-learning in higher education.
http://www.servicelearning.org
Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse – America’s most comprehensive service-learning resource. This site includes a Library Catalog, Fact Sheets, Bibliographies, and examples of service-learning in different disciplines with sample syllabi.
http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/site/PageServer
The National Service-Learning Partnership is a nationwide network of members advancing service-learning as a core part of every young person’s life and education. This site has information about connecting with partnership members and also links to different sponsor initiatives and funding.
http://www.apa.org/ed/slce/servicelearning.html
APA Online: American Psychology Association web page on Civic Engagement and Service-Learning. Information includes informed definitions of service-learning along with principles of best practices in service-learning that work for all disciplines.