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. This book contains chapters that demonstrate just how far service-learning has come.

The chapters in this book all demonstrate just how far service-learning research 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.