Service-Learning in Literacy Education

Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University, USAPeter Smagorinsky, The University of Georgia, USA

• Introduction, Peter Smagorinsky and Valerie Kinloch.Part I. Service Learning in Schools and Communities.Chapter 1. Transformative Service-Learning Initiatives in Urban Schools and Communities: Learning From Challenges, Emily Nemeth, Tamara Butler, Valerie Kinloch, Tori Washington, and Pam Reed.Chapter 2. Garden in a Vacant Lot: Growing Thinkers at Tree House Books, Darcy Luetzow, Lauren Macaluso, and Eli Goldblatt.Chapter 3. From San Francisco to Senegal: A Case Study of International Service-Learning Partnership Development, Dale Allender.Chapter 4. An Authentic, Curriculum-Based Approach to Service-Learning, Meghan B. Thornton.Part II. Service-Learning in Teaching and Teacher Education.Chapter 5. Service-Learning in an Alternative School as Mediated Through Book Club Discussions, Peter Smagorinsky.Chapter 6. Service-Learning and the Field-Based Literacy Methods Course, Michael Moore.Chapter 7. Service-Learning and the Role of Teacher: An Initiative Working With Homeless Youth, Heidi Hallman and Melanie Burdick.Chapter 8. From Service-Learning to Learning to Serve: Preparing Urban English Teachers as Organic Intellectuals, David E. Kirkland.Chapter 9. Creating and Sustaining Service-Learning Tutoring Partnerships for English Learners, Paul H. Matthews.Part III. Service Learning in the Humanities.Chapter 10. Sustainability at a Distance: Service-Learning Relationships Across Time and Place, Lorelei Blackburn and Ellen Cushman.Partnership Service-Learning Between Maya Immigrants and the University: Searching for a Path to Maya Children Success in the Schools, Alan Lebaron.Chapter 11. English Comp and Service Learning: Bringing Life to the Classroom, Maria Mikolchak.Chapter 12. Service-Learning and Civic Engagement: Pathway to Latin@ Immigrant Success Through Servant Leadership, Federico Marquez.