Practice Of Change

Series Editor: Edward Zlotkowski is a professor of English and founding director of the Service-Learning Project at Bentley College. He also is senior associate at the American Association for Higher Education. Volume Editors: Barbara J. Balliet is associate director of women's studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her edited collection Women Culture and Society (1999) grew out of regular discussions among the faculty and graduate students teaching the introductory women's studies course there. A cultural historian, she is currently completing a book on gender and illustration in the 19th century. She received her PhD from New York University. Kerrissa Heffernan is project associate in Integrating Service With Academic Study at Campus Compact, Brown University. Previously, Heffernan was the Arnow Weiler professor of liberal arts at Lasell College, and director of its Women's Studies Program. Additionally, she was the director of the Center for Public Service, and director of the Donahue Institute for Values and Public Life at Lasell. She is also the founder and director of Camp COLORS, a summer camp for preschool children with HIV.

PART ONE. THEORY AND HISTORY. On Critical Thinking and Connected KnowingBlythe McVicker Clinchy; Educating the Artist. A Political StatementS.A. Bachman, with D. Attyah; A Feminist Challenge to Community Service. A Call to Politicize Service-LearningTobi Walker; The History of Women and Service in the United States. A Rich and Complex HeritageHelen Damon-Moore; Service-Learning and Women's Studies. A Community College PerspectiveKaren Bojar; PART TWO. EDUCATING FOR ACTION. The Different Voice of ServiceCatherine Ludlum Foos; Learning Across Boundaries. Women' Studies, Praxis, and Community ServiceMary Trigg and Barbara J. Balliet; Women's Studies and Community-Based Service-Learning. A Natural AffinityPatricia A. Washington; Educated in Agency. Student Reflections on the Feminist Service-Learning ClassroomMelissa Kesler Gilbert; The Urban Educational Initiative. Supporting Educational Partnerships With Young, Urban GirlsKimberly Farah and Kerrissa Heffernan; PART THREE. NARRATING THE JOURNEY. Women, AIDS, and Social Justice. An Autobiography of Activism and AcademiaSally Zierler; TCBY in Limn, Costa Rica. Women's Studies and the (Re)construction of Identity in International Service-LearningDebra J. Liebowitz; Civic Character Engaged. Adult Learners and Service-LearningEve Allegra Raimon and Jan L. Hitchcock; Resolving a Conundrum. Incorporating Service-Learning Into a Women and the Law CourseMary Pat Treuthart; BIBLIOGRAPHY.