Commitment and Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education

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Summary: Addresses academically based service-learning
Review: Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Gail Gunst Heffner (Associate Director for Applied and Community-based Research at the Calvin Center for Social Research) and Claudia DeVries Beverluis (Dean of Instruction and Professor of Psychology at the Calvin Center for Social Research), Commitment And Connection: Service-Learning And Christian Higher Education addresses academically based service-learning as it has been implemented on Christian college and university campuses. Sixteen contributors focus upon the service-learning movement in Christian education as a builder of community and in developing students. Of special note is the final and illustratively insightful chapter "The Development of Academically Based Service-Learning at Calvin College: An Historical Perspective". Commitment And Connection is strongly recommended reading for all college and university level administrators and educators whether their campus is secular or parochial.