Release of Latest Issue of Michigan Journal

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Announcing Volume 21, Number 1 of the Michigan Journal

Since 1994, The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) has been the premier national, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues related to academic (curriculum-based) service- learning and community-engaged scholarship in higher education. The Michigan Journal, published by the University of Michigan’s Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, contributes to the national dialogue on campus-community engagement.

We are pleased to announce that the Fall Issue (Volume 21 Number 1) of The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning has been released.

Volume 21 Number 1 includes the following articles:

RESEARCH, THEORY, AND EVALUATION

·         The Impact of Service-learning Course Characteristics on University Students’ Learning Outcomes (Barbara E. Moely and Vincent Ilustre)

·         Developing Intercultural Competence by Participating In Intensive Intercultural Service-Learning (Nadia De Leon)

·         “Rekindle and Recapture the Love”: Establishing System-wide Indicators of Progress in Community Engagement and Economic Development (Emily M. Janke)

·         Democratic and Social Justice Goals in Service-Learning Evaluation: Contemporary Challenges and Conceptual Resources (David E. Meens)

SPECIAL SECTION: GLOBAL SERVICE-LEARNING

·         Pushing Boundaries: Introduction to the Global Service-Learning Special Section (Eric Hartman and Richard Kiely)

·         “Learning Service” in International Contexts: Partnership-based Service-Learning and Research in Cape Town, South Africa (Janice McMillan and Timothy K. Stanton)

·         What Counts as Outcomes? Community Perspectives of an Engineering Partnership (Nora Pillard Reynolds)

BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS

·         Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World's Toughest Problems, Paul C. Light (Reviewed by Sandra L. Enos)

·         Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service, Thomas Ehrlich & Ernestine Fu (Reviewed by Nicholas V. Longo and Kerry Fleming)

To learn more about the Michigan Journal, please visit ginsberg.umich.edu/mjcsl/ 

Thank you for your support of the Michigan Journal.

jeff

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jeffrey howard

editor

michigan journal of community service learning
ginsberg.umich.edu/mjcsl/