This highly-useful volume presents information from studies of the effectiveness of service-learning on undergraduate and graduate college students enrolled in both seated and on-line courses. Contributors used a variety of qualitative and quantitative research designs to investigate the impact of service-learning on a range of outcomes, including mastery of course content, inter-cultural competence, awareness of social injustices, professional identity formation, individual empowerment, and civic and political engagement attitudes.As several authors note, civic engaged learning is not a panacea for political apathy and civic disengagement. However, the authors demonstrate that well-designed and effectively-taught service learning classes can promote the development of dispositions, skills, and motivations that likely will increase students’ future political engagement and civic participation.
