This volume is part of a series of 18 monographs on service learning and the academic disciplines. This volume offers a collection of essays on the integration of service learning in the field of peace studies. After a Preface by Elise Boulding and an Introduction by Kathleen Maas Weigert and Robin J. Crews, titles in Part 1, "Conceptual Essays" include: "Moral Dimensions of Peace Studies: A Case for Service-Learning" (Kathleen Maas Weigert); "Peace Studies, Pedagogy, and Social Change" (Robin J. Crews); and "Service-Learning as Education: Learning from the Experience of Experience" (Michael Schratz and Rob Walker). Chapters in Part 2, "Service-Learning in Peace Studies Programs," include: "Study, Act, Reflect, and Analyze: Service-Learning and the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University" (Sam Marullo, Mark Lance, and Henry Schwarz); "Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas" (David Whitten Smith and Michael Haasl); "Student Contributions to Public Life: Peace and Justice Studies at the University of San Francisco" (Anne R. Roschelle, Jennifer Turpin, and Robert Elias); "Peace Building through Foreign Study in Northern Ireland: The Earlham College Example" (Anthony Bing); "The International and National Voluntary Service Training Program (INVST) at the University of Colorado at Boulder" (James R. Scarritt and Seana Lowe); "The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution's Modest Experiment in Service-Learning" (Frank Blechman); and "Peaceful Intent: Integrating Service-Learning within a Master's in International Service at Roehampton Institute London" (Christopher Walsh and Andrew Garner). Titles in Part 3, "Service-Learning Courses in Peace Studies," include: "Learning about Peace through Service: Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder" (Robin J. Crews); "Learning about Peace: Five Ways Service-Learning Can Strengthen the Curriculum" (Martha C. Merrill); "Hunger for Justice: Service-Learning in Feminist/Liberation Theology" (Michele James-Deramo); "Service-Learning in Methods of Peacemaking at Earlham College" (Howard Richards and Mary Schwendener-Holt); "Teaching Attitudes of Cultural Understanding through Service-Learning" (Mary B. Kimsey); and "A Mini-Internship in an Introductory Peace Studies Course: Contributions to Service Learning" (John MacDougall). An annotated bibliography of Internet and World Wide Web resources and national and international organizations is appended. (All papers include references.) (SM)
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- Country: US
- Published: 1999
- Publisher: American Association for Higher Education
- Language: English
- Pages: 187
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