Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning
Herausgeber: McDonald, Tracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the work of faculty who have been moved to make sustainability the focus of their work, and to use service learning as one method of teaching sustainability to their students. The first section offers models for opening students to the awareness of the ecological aspects of sustainability; second section explores means for fostering commitment to community service and experiencing the capacity to effect change; the final section addresses sustainability within the business context, with emphasis on the triple bottom line.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781579224189
• ISBN-10: 1579224180
• Artikelnr.: 33814876

Autorenporträt

Robert A. Corrigan is President, San Francisco State University. Gerald S. Eisman is the Acting Director of the Institute for Civic and Community Engagement at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Foreword-Robert A. Corrigan About This Series-Gerald S.
Eisman Activity/Methodology Table Contributors Introduction-Tracy McDonald
Section One. Environmental Awareness 1. Reconnecting to Land, People, and
Community. Ecological Lessons From the Puebla-Alberta Community Service
Exchange-Hans-Dittmar Mündel and Karsten Mündel 2. Integrating
Sustainability and Service Learning into the Science Curriculum-Susan
Sutheimer and Jesse Pyles 3. Sustainability Education Through an
Interdisciplinary and Service-Learning Approach-Alison K. Varty , Shane C.
Lishawa, Nancy Tuchman Section Two. Increasing Civic Engagement 4. What's
the Matter with American Democracy? Responding by Embracing Civic
Engagement and Sustainability-Scott G. McNall 5. Sustainability Starts at
Home. A Hybrid Service-Learning Model for Teaching Environmental
Sustainability-J. Marshall Eames and Jeremy Brooks 6. Learning By Doing
Across Disciplines. Activism, Environmental Awareness and Civic
Engagement-Cheryl Swift and Sal Johnston 7. From Wolves to Wind Power.
Fostering Student Understanding of Science, Stewardship, and Civic
Engagement-Karen Whitehead and Mary Kay Helling 8. Multiculturalism and
Sustainability Education. Engagement with Urban School Communities via Food
and Learning Gardens-Dilafruz Williams Section Three. Sustainability
Concepts in Business and Economics 9. Building Bridges and Social Capital
through Service-Learning. A Blueprint Model-Curtis L. DeBerg 10.
Sustainable Design Practices for the Social Entrepreneurial Business-Connie
Ulasewicz 11. Teaching Sustainable Rural Economic Development Using
Service-Learning Pedagogy-Beth Wilson Index