Special Journal Issues

In addition to the regular issues of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, the following special issues of the MJCSL are available.

Strategic Directions for Service-Learning Research

Fall 2000
$15.00
140 pages

Interested in undertaking service-learning research?

In this special issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, leaders from the service-learning community lay out a blueprint for research directions to advance service-learning knowledge, practice, and institutionalization. Click here to see the table of contents, article abstracts, or to order.

Guest Editors Sherril B.Gelmon, Portland State University, and Dwight Giles, University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Service-Learning Course Design Workbook

Fall 2001
$12.00
64 pages

Interested in building your capacity to design a quality service-learning course?

This companion volume to the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning clarifies the conceptualization of academic service-learning (and how it is different from other community-based pedagogical models), establishes clear criteria to determine bona fide service-learning courses, and provides a resource that walks an instructor through the process of designing and developing a service-learning course. Rich with planning worksheets, this workbook is a must-have resource for faculty and those responsible for faculty development. Click here to order.

Written by Jeffrey Howard, Editor of the MJCSL.

Community-Based Research

Volume 9 Number 3 Summer 2003
$8.00
80 pages

Interested in community-based research?

This special issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (Volume 9 Number 3) includes articles on principles of best practice, opportunities and pitfalls, exemplars, the undergraduate perspective, networks, and assessment. Click here to see the table of contents, article abstracts, or to order.

Guest Editor Barbara Ferman (Temple University)

Service-Learning and Anthropology

Volume 10 Number 3 Summer 2004
$8.00
120 pages

Interested in service-learning and anthropology?

This special issue of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (Volume 10 Number 3) contains articles by anthropologists using service-learning to advance their students' anthropological learning. Articles speak to the commonalities shared by anthropology and service-learning as well as exemplars from the different specializations within anthropology. Click here to see the table of contents, abstracts, sample article, or to order.

Guest Editors: Arthur Keene (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) and Sumi Colligan (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts).