Compiled as suggestions for instructors to use as readings or content for students.
Articles and Webpages
Social Change Wheel overview (strategies for creating positive change)
Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service: An Interview
What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about service
Higher education: Civic mission and civic effects
Integrated service-learning: Students’ Perspectives
The “Real-World” Experience: Students’ Perspectives on Service-Learning Projects
Reflections of engagement (Mesa Community College
Why Servanthood is Bad (McKnight)
To Hell with Good Intentions (Illich)
Starfish Hurling & Community Service (Morton)
The Effect of Community Service Learning on Undergraduate Persistence in Three Institutional Contexts (Reed et al.)
Books and Book Chapters
Beyond Empathy: Developing Critical Consciousness through Service Learning (Cynthia Rosenberger)
Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements (Marshall Ganz)
The Civically Engaged Reader: A Diverse Collection of Short Provocative Readings on Civic Activity (Davis and Lynn)
Learning through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning Across the Disciplines (Cress et al.)
Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take a Little While (Loeb)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Friere)
Education for Democracy: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers (Barber and Battistoni)
Twenty Years at Hull-House (Jane Addams)
In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World (Wendell Berry)
The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism (Robert Coles)
Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism ( Stephen John Hartnett (Editor), Eleanor Novek (Editor), Jennifer K. Wood (Editor) contains a chapter titled Service-Learning in Prison Facilities: Interaction as a Source of Transformation by Hinck, Hinck, and Withers.
Toxic Charity (Lupton)
Counterfeit Community: The Exploitation of Our Longings for Connectedness (Freie)
Videos
Research Insights for Best Practice International Volunteering
Fair Trade Learning: An Ethical Approach to Global Learning and Service
How Volunteering Abroad in Orphanages is Harmful to Children
The way we think about charity is dead wrong (Pallotta)
Taking Root the Vision of Wangari Maatha
Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (Michael Sandel)