READING LIST

Listed below are books and scholarly articles that will help you become more knowledgeable about community-based learning and research, its history, its methodology, and its future.

Berry, J. and D. Arons, (2003). A Voice for Nonprofits. Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC

Boyer, E.L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professorate. Princeton, NJ: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Caron, B. (Ed.). (1999). Service matters: The engaged campus. Providence, RI: Campus Compact.

Coles, R. (1993). The call of service: A witness to idealism. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Edwards, B. and D. Marullo, Eds. (1999). Universities in troubled times: Institutional responses. American Behavioral Scientist 42(5): 743-901.

DeTocueville, A. (1994). Democracy in America. In G Alpert (Ed.). Service-learning reader: Reflections and Perspectives on Service (pp. 140-148). Raleigh, NC: National Society for Experiential Education.

Freire, Paul. (1994, orig. 1973). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum Press.

Grootaert, C & T. Bastelaer (2002). Understanding and Measuring Social Capital. The World Bank

Henry, M. E. & Gonzalez, L. (2001)  Service-Learning supervisor's handbook: A step-by-step guide for community partners supervising service-learning students.  Upper Montclair, NJ: Montclair University Center for Community-Based Learning Press.

Holtschlag, M. (2001 Fall). Using Community Resources to the Fullest. Michigan Family Review, 6(1), pp. 43-54.

Howard, J. (ed.). (1993). PRAXIS (three volume series). Ann Arbor, MI: Office of Community Service Learning Press.

Jacoby, B. and associates (eds.). Service-learning in higher education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Kahne, J. and J. Westheimer. (1996). In the service of what? The politics of service-learning. Phi Delta Kappa 77(9): 593-599.

LeCompte, M.D., Milroy, W.L., and Preissle, J. (1992). Handbook on qualitative research methods in education, Academic Press.

Light, P. (2002). Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence. Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC.

Lisman, C. David (1998). Toward a civil society: Civic literacy and service learning. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.

Lynn, F. (2000). Community-scientist collaboration in environmental research, American Behavioral Scientist, December.

Lynton, E. (1995). Making the case for professional service. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education.

Marullo, S. (1989). Sociology?s essential role ? promoting critical thinking in service learning. In J. Ostrow, S. Enos, G. Hesser, Sociology and service-learning. Washington, DC: Association for Advancement of Higher Education.

Marullo, S. and B. Edwards. (2000). Service-learning pedagogy as universities? response to troubled times. American Behavioral Scientist 43(5).

McKnight, H. (1996). The careless society: Community and its counterfeits. New York: Basic.

Nyden, P. et al. (eds.). (1997). Building community: Social science in action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

O'Connor, P. (2000). Speaking of Crime: Narratives of Prisoners. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln and London

Ostrow, J., G. Hesser, and S. Enos (eds.). (1999). Cultivating the Sociological Imagination: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Sociology. Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education.

Reason, P., and Bradbury, H. (Eds.) (2001). Handbook of Action Research. Sage.

Root, R. and Thorme, T. (2001). Community-Based Projects in Applied Statistics: Using Service-Learning to Enhance Student Understanding. The American Statistician 55(4):326-33 1.

Salamon, L. (2002). The State of NonProfit America. Brookings Institution Prees, Washington, DC

Schensul, J.J. & LeCompte, M.D. (1999). Ethnographers Toolkit, Rowman & Littlefield.

Sigmon, R.I. (2003). Building Sustainable Partnerships: Linking Communities and Educational Institutions. Raleigh, NC: Corporation for National and Community Service Press.

Squires, D. G. (2004). Why the Poor Pay More: How to Stop Predatory Lending, West port, CT: Praeger Publishers.

Squires, D.G & S. O'Connor (2001). Color and Money. State University of New York Press, Albany

Stanton, T. K., D. Giles, Jr., and N. Cruz. (1999). Service Learning: A Movement Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future. Jossey - Bass Publishers, San Francisco

Stoecker, R. (1999). Are academics irrelevant. Roles for scholars in participatory research. American Behavioral Scientist, 42(5) 834:848.

Strand, Kerry, Sam Marullo, et al. (2003) Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practices. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Stringer, E. (1997). Community-based ethnography: Breaking traditional boundaries of research, teaching, and learning. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Stringer, E. (1996). Action research: A handbook for practitioners. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Success through Collaboration. (2004, September). [Entire Issue]. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 96(3).

Sullivan, C. et al. (eds.). (1999). Service-learning: Educating students for life. Harrisonburg, VA: Institute for Higher Education, James Madison University.

Tolan, P., Keys, C., Chertok, F., & Jason, L.A. (1990). Researching community psychology: Issues of theory and methods. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Williams, B. (1988). Upscaling Downtown: Stalled Gentrification in Washington, DC: Cornell University Press

Williams, L. (2003). The constraint of race. The Pennsylvania State University.



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