IPSL Publications: Books

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CHARTING A HERO'S JOURNEY

by Linda A. Chisholm

Based on the work of Joseph Campbell and using excerpts from the journals of such people as Jane Addams, Langston Hughes, Octavio Paz, Samuel Johnson, Mary Kingsley, and Kathleen Norris, Charting a Hero's Journey is a guide to the writing of a journal for college students engaged in study abroad...

HOW TO SERVE & LEARN ABROAD EFFECTIVELY: STUDENTS TELL STUDENTS

by Howard A. Berry and Linda A. Chisholm

This book is based on the experiences and reflections of over 1,000 students from more than 140 colleges and universities who served and learned through the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership. It is their story told in their words, based on real experiences with real people...

UNDERSTANDING THE EDUCATION — AND THROUGH IT THE CULTURE — IN EDUCATION ABROAD

by Linda A. Chisholm and Howard A. Berry

Based on the premise that an educational system both reflects and shapes a culture, this short book is a guide for students going abroad to study. It leads them step-by-step through an in-depth investigation of the university they attend overseas and higher education in their host country. The study will help them both to be a successful student and to come to a deeper knowledge of their host culture...

VISIONS OF SERVICE

edited by Linda A. Chisholm

Contributors: John Butt (Buddhism), Elliot N. Dorff (Judaism), Carool Kersten (Islam), Kalyan Ray (Hindusim), David Kwang-sun Suh (Christianity)

This book introduces students to five of the world's great religions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--with a special emphasis on each religion's philosophy of service and call to serve. With excerpts regarding service and social responsibility from the sacred writings of each tradition...

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Service-Learning Research

KNOWING AND DOING: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SERVICE-LEARNING

edited by Linda Chisholm

A Festschrift written by colleagues around the world in honor of Howard A. Berry, together with a selection of his speeches and papers. Service-learning is the union of academic study and volunteer community service, linked in such a way that each reinforces the other. It is a pedagogy that...

SERVICE-LEARNING ACROSS CULTURES: PROMISE AND ACHIEVEMENT

edited by Humphrey Tonkin

This book, the culmination of a three-year, three-part study funded by the Ford Foundation, explores the effects of international service-learning on the students who participate, the institutions where they study, and the agencies where they perform their service...

SERVICE-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION AROUND THE WORLD: AN INITIAL LOOK

a report by Howard A. Berry and Linda A. Chisholm

This report, supported by the Ford Foundation, is the first international survey of service-learning. In addition to describing models of service-learning programs, it gives examples of service-learning from over 100 institutions in 33 countries.

SERVICE LEARNING IN ASIA: CREATING NETWORKS AND CURRICULA IN HIGHER EDUCATION

International Christian University, Tokyo

In June 2002, International Christian University in Tokyo hosted a conference for institutions in Asia that are developing service-learning. Service Learning in Asia: Creating Networks and Curricula in Higher Education is the title of the conference proceedings...

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Leadership

LEADERSHIP AND DEMOCRACY

by Adel Safty

Written by Adel Safty, Permanent UNESCO Chair in International Leadership and President of the Global Leadership Forum. A political scientist, Dr. Safty reviews the primary philosophers of democratic theory and the democratic revolutions in various parts of the world through the 1990s...

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Other

EASTWORDS

by Kalyan Ray (Director, IPSL India Program)

From the book cover: "Irreverent and witty, Eastwords is a powerful novel that spans ages and continents. East meets West in its cast, both real and imagined, that includes Shakespeare (the Bardshah') and Siraj-ud-Daulah, Oberon and Titania, Robert Clive and Vasco da Gama, Caliban, Puck and Prospero. Deliciously tinged with magical realism, the story comes alive with characters who take on new incarnations as the plot progresses..."

INTRODUCCIÓN A LOS PROBLEMAS SOCIALES DE MÉXICO

by Enrique Lazcano Espinoza

This short book was written by a distinguished professor of economics at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara for students in the IPSL Mexico program. It is used in the course he teaches which links the service they are performing with understanding the social conditions of the clients of the agencies where they are working, and sets these conditions in the context of globalization...

PORTRAIT OF A PARTNERSHIP

by Mora Dickson

This book, the last of many written by Mora Dickson, beautifully chronicles her life with Alec Dickson, CBE, founder of Voluntary Service Overseas, the organization upon which John F. Kennedy modeled the US Peace Corps, and Community Service Volunteers, through which thousands upon thousands of young British have served at home and abroad...

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