Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
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Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-8476-9116-6 • Paperback • November 2000 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
978-1-4616-4180-3 • eBook • November 2000 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Michelle Robin Dunlap is associate professor in the Department of Human Development at Connecticut College. For more information about the author, visit her
faculty page.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Beginnings
Chapter 4 How Do I Get Started? Getting Organized for Community Service
Chapter 5 While You Are Getting Ready: Community Service and Learning in Context
Chapter 6 What in the World Am I Doing Here? The First Visits
Part 7 Intermediate Issues
Chapter 8 Looking in the Mirror: Images of the Self, the Hero, and the Mutual Learner
Chapter 9 Is It Getting Better Yet? Building Trust and Nurturing Relationships
Chapter 10 What should I do now? Addressing Issues, Behavior, and Limits
Chapter 11 To Touch or Not to Touch? Affection and Gender-Related Issues
Chapter 12 The Melting Pot and the Vegetable Stew: Multicultural Issues
Chapter 13 Working with Individuals with Special Needs
Chapter 14 Did She Really Say That? Shocking Statements and Other Traumas
Part 15 Endings
Chapter 16 Is It Time to Say Good-bye? Arranging Successful Closure
Chapter 17 Reviewing the Community Service Adjustment Process
Chapter 18 Notes
Chapter 19 Appendix A: Journal Reflection Questions
Chapter 20 Appendix B: Methods
Chapter 21 Appendix C: Guidelines Regarding Privacy and Confidentiality
Chapter 22 Appendix D: Sample Introductory Letter to Agency
Chapter 23 Appendix E: Guidelines for Working with Children and Families
Chapter 24 Appendix F: Collectivistic Practices and Approaches
Chapter 25 Appendix G: Sample Placement Supervisor Evaluation of Worker
Chapter 26 References
This book will be a companion to students as they face the challenges, struggles, apprehensions, and joys of community service. It provides practical and realistic advice for students on many issues. In addition, the book will be a valuable resource for faculty as they develop and conduct service learning classes. The book will also be useful to community agency personnel as a resource for their supervision of service learning students.
— Robert G. Bringle, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Faculty will find the book useful not only in terms of preparing their students for community service and learning, but also in terms of facilitating students' reflection upon their experiences and merging those reflections with the learnings in the course. This book will make students better learners, faculty better teachers, and the community work more beneficial to all parties.
— Jeffrey Howard, editor of Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
Reaching Out to Children and Families is intended primarily for college students but may be useful to high-school, international, or nonstudent volunteers, and to those who organize or manage student-volunteer programs.
— The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The book will be most useful for students who participate in community learning, and for university or college faculty who work with setting up and supervising community learning experiences.
— Readings:Ajournal Of Reviews and Commentary In Mental Health
How can we help our students move beyond familiar stereotypes to think more critically about the significance of race and class not only in other people's lives but in their own? This is a question that teacher educators and others involved in community-based learning are asking all over the country. In this excellent book, using students' own voices, Professor Dunlap cogently captures the challenge of preparing students to interact effectively with racially and ethnically diverse populations, and offers useful strategies for supporting student growth in service learning placements. Anyone engaged in service learning programs, faculty and students alike, will benefit from reading this book.
— Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, president of Spelman College, and author of "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race"
The book offers hundreds of role models, scenarios, and student perspectives that will help inexperienced students to prepare for a variety of real-life, hands-on situations and experiences that may occur when they volunteer, intern, or engage in service-learning in community settings.