Faculty may find some of the following resources useful for introducing a class to service-learning and civic engagement. Have a reading or resource you’d like to add? Email servicelearning@uca.edu. Thanks!
Articles and Web Pages
- Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service
- To Hell with Good Intentions (Ivan Illich)
- Higher Education: Civic Mission and Civic Effects
- Integrated Service-Learning: Students’ Perspectives
- The “Real-World” Experience: Students’ Perspectives on Service-Learning Projects
- Starfish Hurling & Community Service
- What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service
Books and Chapters
- The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism
- The Civically Engaged Reader: A Diverse Collection of Short Provocative Readings on Civic Activity
- Counterfeit Community: The Exploitation of Our Longings for Connectedness
- Education for Democracy: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
- The Impossible Will Take a While
- In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
- Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
- Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements
- Learning through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning Across the Disciplines
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Soul of a Citizen
- Toxic Charity
- Twenty Years at Hull-House
- Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism
Videos