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Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Religious Studies
Redaktion: Devine, Richard; McLain, F. Michael; Favazza, Joseph A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume, like its series companions, goes beyond simple "how-to" to discuss the implementation of service-learning within religious studies and what that discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service learning. The volume contains both theoretical and pedagogical essays by scholar-teachers in religious studies education, plus a resource guide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000972375
• Artikelnr.: 68356658

Autorenporträt

Volume Editors: Richard Devine is professor of moral theology at St. John's University in New York City. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The second edition of his textbook on medical ethics, Good Care: Painful Choices, was published by Paulist Press in 2000. He also is the NGO representative to the United Nations for the Congregation of the Mission, a world-wide religious community of priests and brothers. Joseph A. Favazza is associate professor of religious studies and director of interdisciplinary humanities at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He and Michael McLain coordinate the Rhodes service-learning initiative. He recently spent five months in Romania as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and is the author of The Pedagogy of Service Learning: Perspectives and Proposals in Religious Studies News (September 1999). F. Michael McLain is the R.A. Webb professor of religious studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee. He and Joseph A. Favazza coordinate the Rhodes service-learning initiative. He founded the Associated Colleges of the South Service-Learning Maymester in Honduras and has led service-learning trips to South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Raymond Brady Williams About This Series
Edward Zlotkowski Introduction
Richard Devine, Josef Hellebrandt and Michael McLain Part I. Service
Learning and the Discipline of Religious Studies 1. Service
Learning and the Dilemma of Religious Studies. Descriptive or Normative?
Fred Glennon 2. Creating the Engaged University. Service
Learning, Religious Studies, and Institutional Mission
Charles R. Strain Part II. Service
Learning and Its Communities 3. Making Meaning. Reflections on Community, Service, and Learning
Keith Morton 4. On En/Countering the Other
Elizabeth M. Bounds, Barbara A.B. Patterson, and Tina Pippin 5. Service
Learning and Community Partnerships. Curricula of Mutuality
Peter M. Antoci and Sandra K. Smith Speck 6. Expanding the Horizon of Engagement. Pioneering Work at the University of Denver
M. Elizabeth Blissman Part III. Course s 7. Toward an Assessment
Based Approach to Service
Learning Course Design
Thomas G. McGowan 8. Service
Learning in an Introduction to Theology Course
Robert Masson 9. "God and Human Suffering" as a Service
Learning Course
Chris Johnson 10. "Religion and Social Engagement. Labor and Business Ethics"
John Leahy and Kim Bobo 11. Making a Difference With Service
Learning. "Christian Ethics and Modern Problems"
Walther H. Schuman 12. The Interweaving of "World Religions" and Service
Learning in a Community College Setting
Raj Ayyar 13. The Role of Service
Learning in the Transformation of "Islam. Faith and Practice"
Jonathan Brumberg
Kraus 14. "The History and Religion of Ancient Israel". An Introductory Course to the Hebrew Bible
Bradley D. Dudley 15. "Fieldwork in the Jewish Community"
Terry Smith Hatkoff Appendix 1. Print and Electronic Resource Guide 2. Contributors to This Volume