The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learningresearch has come. Researchers, practitioners, and students alike have
benefited from its dissemination and use the research to improve practice.
The research does not simply inform educators how to create a better pedagogy. Rather, it informs a service-learning practice that can transform
both individuals and institutions.

Acknowledments; Introduction, Karen McKnight Casey, Nicole C. Springer, Shelley H. Billig, and Georgia Davidson; SECTION I: SERVICE-LEARNING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT; Approaching Democratic Engagement: Research Findings on Civic Learning and Civic Practice, Richard Battistoni; Service-Learning and Civic Outcomes: From Suggestive Research to Program Models, Suzanne Pritzker and Amanda Moore McBride; Maximizing Civic Commitment Through Service-Learning: Case Studies of Effective High School Classrooms, Shelley H. Billig and Susan Root; SECTION II: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON SERVICE-LEARNING; Service-Learning in Argentina Schools: A Descriptive Vision Based on the Projects Presented to the "Presidential Service-Learning Award" (2000-2001), Maria Nieves Tapia, Alba Gonzalez, and Pablo Elicegui; Critical Thinking in a Higher Education Service-Learning Program, Diana Pacheco-Pinzon and Frida Diaz Barriga Arceo; SECTION III: IMPACTS OF SERVICE-LEARNING; An Evaluation of Academic Service-Learning: Student and Community Perspectives on Lessons Learned, Lori Simons and Beverly Cleary; Impacts of a Service-Learning Seminar and Practicum on Preservice Teacher's Understanding of Pedagogy, Community, and Themselves, Angela Harwood, Devon Fliss, and Erin Gaulding; Engaging Scholars in the Scholarship of Engagement: Advancing Research and Publication Knowledge and Creative Production, Kevin Kecskes, Peter Collier, and Martha Balshem; SECTION IV: THE INFLUENCE OF PAST SERVICE-LEARNING RESEARCH ON PRESENT THINKING; The Wisdom of Delphi: An Investigation of the Most Influential Studies in K-12 Service-Learning Research in the Past 25 Years, Robert Shumer; SECTION V: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SERVICE-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION; Ancillary to Integral: Momentum to Institutionalize Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Karen McKnight Casey and Nicole C. Springer; About the Contributors; Index.