Contents
Introduction: Why Rural Service Learning? by Charles Ganzert, Nicholas Holton, and Randy Stoecker
Part 1. Rural Service Learning in Context
The Landscape of Rural Service Learning, by Nicholas Holton, Karen McKnight Casey, Cynthia Fletcher, Charles Ganzert, John Hamerlinck, Steven Henness, Pam Proulx-Curry, J. Ashleigh Ross, Heidi A. Stevenson, Randy Stoecker, Sophie Tullier, and Spencer D. W
Rural Service Learning on the Blue Bus: A Retrospective in Hopes of Advancing Transformative Civic Engagement in Higher Education, by Eva M. Hagenhofer
Geographic Disparities in Access to Higher Education Service Learning, by Randy Stoecker and Charity Schmidt
Student Voice in Rural Service Learning, by Sophie Tullier
Rural Service Learning: Boundary Spanners’ Perspectives, by J. Ashleigh Ross and Randy Stoecker
Part 2. Rural Service Learning in Practice
Beyond Service Learning: Living Democracy in Rural Alabama, by Blake Evans
Food for Thought: A Product-Model Service Learning Experience for Environmental Science Students at a Rural Campus of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, by Lauren Wentz
Service Learning and Rural Development in West Virginia: A Community Center Approach, by Chris Baker and Corey Dolgon
Naadamaage Kinomaagewin: Service Learning in Native American Studies, by Martin Reinhardt
Rural Service Learning as Participatory Action Research: Lessons from Central Pennsylvania, by Brandn Green, Heather Feldhaus, Ben Marsh, and Carl Milofsky
Targeted Student Engagement in Rural Communities: Pairing Select Students with Community Organizations to Link Service Learning and Community-Based Research, by M. Beth White and Spencer D. Wood
Using a Group Community-Based Research Project in the Introductory Sociology Class as an Exercise in Public Sociology, by Shelley L. Koch
Striving for Academic Service Learning Success in a Rural K–12 Tribal School, by Judith Puncochar
Our Work in Progress: Service Learning and Rural Communities Partnering in a College-Ready Writers Program, by Marisa Sandoval Lamb and Flora Ann Simon
Part 3. Rural Service Learning Looking Forward
Service Learning in the Rural Community College, by Nicholas Holton
Reasonable Care: Risk and Liability in Service Learning, by Charles Ganzert
Organic and Dynamic: How Systems Theories Can Inform Rural Service Learning Practice, by Heidi A. Stevenson
Conclusion: Rural Service Learning as Innovation in the Hinterland, by Charles Ganzert, Nicholas Holton, Randy Stoecker, Karen McKnight Casey, Cynthia Fletcher, John Hamerlinck, Steven Henness, Pam Proulx-Curry, J. Ashleigh Ross, Heidi A. Stevenson, Sophi
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