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Toolkit Bibliography & Comprehensive Reading List Toolkit for Service Learning in Political Science

TOOLKIT BIBLIOGRAPHY

(Toolkit for Service Learning in Political Science by Craig Rimmerman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

Barber, Benjamin R. 1984. Strong Democracy. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Barber, Benjamin. 1989. "Public Talk and Civic Action: Education for Participation in a Strong Democracy." Social Education 53: 355-370.

Barber, Benjamin R. 1992. An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America. New York: Ballantine.

Barber, Benjamin R. 1998. A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong. New York: Hill and Wang.

Barber, Benjamin R. and Richard M. Battistoni. 1993. "A Season of Service: Introducing Service Learning into the Liberal Arts Curriculum." PS: Political Science and Politics 26, 2: 235-240.

Battistoni, Richard M. 1995. "Service Learning, Diversity, and the Liberal Arts Curriculum." Liberal Education 81: 30-35.

Battistoni, Richard M. 2002. Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum: A Resource Book for Service-Learning Faculty in all Disciplines. A Publication of Campus Compact, Brown University.

Battistoni, Richard M. 1996. "Service-Learning in a Democratic Society: Essential Practices for K-12 Programs." Community Service-Learning: A Guide to Including Service in the Public School Curriculum. Albany: SUNY Press.

Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. 1985. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. New York: Harper and Row.

Bennett, Stephen E. "Why Young Americans Hate Politics, and What We Should Do about It," Political Science and Politics (March 1997): 47-53.

Boyte, Harry. 1991. "Community Service and Civic Education." Phi Beta Kappa (June): 765-67.

Boyte, Harry. 1993. "Practical Politics," In Education for Democracy. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt.

Boyte, Harry C. and Rebecca Breuer. 1992. "Service, Citizenship and Politics: A Perspective from Project Public Life." Compact News (Winter): 1-5.

Boyte, Harry C. and Nancy N. Kari. 1996. Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Bringle, Robert G., Malloy, Edward A., Games, Richard. Colleges and Universities as Citizens. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Brown, David W. ed. 1996. Higher Education Exchange. Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation.

Carleton, Francis, Scott R. Furlong, and Denise Scheberle. 1996. "Educating Towards the 21st Century: Active Learning in American Government and Politics." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco.

Couto, Richard A. and Theodore Becker, eds. 1996. Teaching Democracy by Being Democratic. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

Ehrlich, Thomas. 2000. Civic Responsibility and Higher Education: Oryx Press.

Eyler, Janet, and Giles, Dwight E. Jr. 1999. Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Farr, James. 1993. "Framing Democratic Discussion," in Reconsidering the Democratic Public, ed. George Marcus and Russell Hanson. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Galston, William A. 1995. "Liberal Virtues and the Formation of Civic Character," in Seedbeds of Virtue, ed. Mary Ann Glendon and David Blankenhorn. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books.

Gastil, John. 1993. Democracy in Small Groups: Participation, Decision Making and Communication. Philadelphia: New Society.

Gastil, John. 1994. Democratic Citizenship and the National Issues Forums. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gorham, Eric B. 1992. National Service, Citizenship, and Political Education. Albany: SUNY Press.

Guarasci, Richard. 1997. Democratic Education in an Age of Difference: Redefining Citizenship in Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Harwood, Richard C. 1991. "Citizens and Politics: A View from Main Street America." Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation.

Harwood Group. 1993. College Students Talk Politics. Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation.

Hepburn, Mary A. 1993. "Concepts of Pluralism and the Implications for Citizenship Education." Social Studies 84: 20-26.

Kinder, Donald and Don Herzog. 1993. "Democratic Discussion," in Reconsidering the Democratic Public, ed. George Marcus and Russell Hanson. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Loeb, Paul Rogat. 1994. Generations at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Loeb, Paul Rogat. 1999. The Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Cynical Times. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Mann, Sheilah and John J. Patrick (eds). Education for Civic Engagement in Democracy: Service Learning and Other Promising Practices. Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse. 2000.

Markus, Gregory, Jeffrey Howard, and David King. 1993. "Integrating Community Service and Classroom Instruction Enhances Learning: Results from an Experiment." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 15:4.

Mathews, David. 1999. Politics for People: Finding a Responsible Public Voice. 2nd ed. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

McKenzie, Robert H. 1994. Public Politics. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt.

McKenzie, Robert H. and Daniel W. O'Connell. 1995. "Teaching the Art of Public Deliberation--National Issues Forums in the Classroom." PS: Political Science and Politics 28, 4: 230-32.

Morse, Suzanne W., ed. 1992. Politics for the Twenty-First Century: What Should Be Done on Campus? Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.

Newmann, Fred M. 1990. "Reflective Citizen Participation," in Combining Service and Learning: A Resource Book for Community and Public Service, vol. I, ed. Jane C. Kendall and Associates. Raleigh, N.C.: National Society for Internships and Experiential Education.

O'Connell, Brian. 1999. Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy . Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England.

Palmer, Parker J. 1998. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

People for the American Way. 1989. Democracy's Next Generation: American Youth Attitudes on Citizenship, Government, and Politics. Washington, DC.

Putnam, Robert. 1995. "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital." Journal of Democracy 6, 1: 65-78.

Putnam, Robert. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Putnam, Robert. 1996. "The Strange Disappearance of Civic America." American Prospect 24 (Winter): 34-48.

Reeher, Grant and Joseph Cammarano, eds. 1997. Education for Citizenship: Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.

Reyes, Meta-Mendel. 1998. "A Pedagogy for Citizenship: Service Learning and Democratic Education. In Academic Service Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection. Edited by Robert A. Rhoades and Jeffrey A. Howard. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Rimmerman, Craig A. 1997. The New Citizenship: Unconventional Politics, Activism, and Service. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Sandel, Michael J. 1996. Democracy's Discontents: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Schudson, Michael. 1998. The Good Citizen: A History of American Civil Life. New York: Free Press.

Stanton, Timothy K., Giles, Dwight E. Jr., and Nadinne I. Cruz. 1999. Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.

Verba, Sidney, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady. 1995. Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Walt Whitman Center. 1996. Measuring Citizenship: Assessing the Impact of Service Learning on America's Youth. New Brunswick, N.J.: Walt Whitman Center, Rutgers University.

Wuthnow, Robert. 1995. Learning to Care: Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference. New York: Oxford University Press.

Zlotkowski, Edward, ed. 1998. Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education. Boston: Anker Publishing.


GAINING SUPPORT FOR SERVICE LEARNING

Bringle, Robert G., Julie A. Hatcher, and Richard Games. 1997. "Engaging and Supporting Faculty in Service Learning." Journal of Public Service and Outreach, v2n1: 43-51.

Levine, Myron A. 1994. "Seven Steps to Getting Faculty Involved in Service-Learning: How a Traditional Faculty Member Came to Teach a Course on 'Volunteerism, Community, and Citizenship,'" Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v1n1: 110-114.

Serow, Robert C., Diane C. Calleson, and Lani Parker. 1996. "Institutional Support for Service-Learning." Journal of Research and Development in Education, v29n4: 220-225.

Stanton, T, D. E. Giles, Jr., and N. Cruz. 1999. Service Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect On Its Origins, Practice, and Future. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Ward, Kelly. 1996. "Service-Learning and Student Volunteerism: Reflections on Institutional Commitment." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v3: 55-65.

Ward, Kelly. 1998. "Addressing Academic Culture: Service Learning, Organizations, and Faculty Work," in Robert Rhoads and Jeffrey Howard, ed. Academic Service-Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, p. 73-80.


ESTABLISHING COMMUNITY CONTACTS

Kraft, R.J. 1996. "Service Learning." Education and Urban Society, 28(2):131-159.

Lane, Brett and Diane Dorfuran. "Strengthening Community Networks: The Basis for Sustaining Community Renewal."

Tice, Carol H. 1994. "Forging University-Community Collaboration: The Agency Perspective on National Service." Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, v1n1: 105-109.


REFLECTION & EVALUATION TECHNIQUES

Campus Compact's Reflection Site provides a comprehensive introduction to reflection techniques and materials.

Cooper, David. 1998. "Reading, Writing, and Reflection" in Robert Rhoads and Jeffrey Howard, ed., Academic Service-Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 47-56.

Eyler, J., D. Giles, and E. Schmiede. 1996. A Practitioner's Guide to Reflection in Service-learning: Student Voices and Reflections. A Technical Assistance Project funded by the Corporation for National Service. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University.

Hatcher, Julie A. and Robert G. Bringle. 1997. "Reflection: Bridging the Gap Between Service and Learning." College Teaching, v45n4: 153-8.

Kottkamp, R. "Means for Facilitating Reflection." Education and Urban Society, 22(2): 182-203.

Ogden, Curtis, and Jeff Claus. 1997. "Reflection as A Natural Element of Service: Service Learning for Youth Empowerment." Equity and Excellence in Education, v30n1: 72-73.

Reflection: The Key to Service Learning: A Guide for Program Leaders. 1998. New York: National Helpers Network.

Williams, Dilafruz and Amy Driscoll. 1997. "Connecting Curriculum Content with Community Service: Guidelines for Facilitating Student Reflection." Journal of Public Service and Outreach, v2n1: 33-42.


SERVICE-LEARNING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE COURSES

Beamer, Glenn. "Service Learning: What's a Political Scientist Doing in Yonkers? PS: Political Science and Politics, September 1998: 557-61. Urban Politics.

Bernstein, Jeffrey L. (1999) "Engaging Student and Professor by Doing Public Opinion Surveys for the Community." The Political Science Educator, v6 n1: 2,9.

Guarasci, Richard. 1997. "Community-Based Learning and Intercultural Citizenship," in Democratic Education in an Age of Difference, ed. Richard Guarasci and Grant Cornwell. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Koulish, Robert. "Citizenship Service Learning: Becoming Citizens by Assisting Immigrants." PS: Political Science and Politics, September 1998: 562-7.

Lempert, David H. 1996. Escape from the Ivory Tower: Student Adventures in Democratic Experiential Education. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Lempert, David H., Kim McCarty and Craig Mitchell. 1998. A Model Development Plan: New Strategies and Perspectives. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Patterson, Amy P. "It's a Small World: Incorporating Service Leaning into International Relations Courses. Prepared for the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Rimmerman, Craig. 1997. "Teaching American Politics through Service: Reflections on a Pedagogical Strategy," in Education for Citizenship: Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning, ed. Grant Reeher and Joseph Cammarano. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Rocha, Cynthia J. (2000). "Evaluating Experiential Teaching Methods in a Policy Practice Course: The Case for Service Learning to Increase Political Participation." Journal of Social Work Education, v36:53(10).

Rosenthal, Cindy Simon. "One Experience is Worth a Thousand Words: Engaging Undergraduates in Field Research on Gender." PS: Political Science and Politics, March 1999, 63-8.

Young, Rosalie R. "Brief Field Experiences: An Instructional Tool For Undergraduate Political Science Classes." PS: Political Science and Politics, December 1996: 695-6.