CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We are soliciting materials for an edited volume on Service-Learning and
Communication Studies at the post-secondary level to be edited by David
Droge (University of Puget Sound) and Bren Ortega Murphy (Loyola University
Chicago). The volume is part of a series sponsored by the American
Association for Higher Education, Campus Compact, and the Invisible
College, a national group of faculty engaged in and
interested in supporting service-learning in colleges and universities. The
general editor for the series is Edward Zlotkowski, Director of the Bentley
College Service-Learning Project. AAHE will publish the monograph series.
The general purpose of the volume is to provide theoretical and pedagogical
material on the links between communication studies and service-learning.
Selection of material will be guided by the following definition, which we
have condensed from the National Community Service and Trust Act of 1993 :
"Service-learning means a method under which students learn and develop
through thoughtfully-organized service that: is conducted in and meets the
needs of a community and is coordinated with an institution of higher
education, and with the community; helps foster civic responsibility; is
integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students
enrolled; and includes structured time for students to reflect on the
service experience."
The following kinds of materials are welcome:
1. Essays dealing with historical links between communication and
community building, with theoretical issues in communication
studies that are brought into relief when examined through the lens of
service-learning (and vice versa), and with pedagogical issues that relate
communication studies and service-learning. (Essays might address, for
example, the kinds of service projects that are appropriate to the learning
goals for one or more communication studies course; theoretical issues
such as the link between "communication" and "community" and how
service-learning relates to that link; methodologicalunderpinnings of
the relationship between communication studies and service-learning;
available research on the relationships; etc.)
2. Course/program materials for communication studies that incorporate
service-learning and help others learn "how to do it." ((Essays might
focus on a design an introductory course in one area in communication studies
or more a advanced course and how such a course includes service-learning,
providing a syllabus, a sample of assignments, assessment tools, etc.;
designs for a "program" in communication studies
(major/minor/concentration) and how service-learning might be incorporated,
what the obstacles are to such incorporation, etc.))
3. Items for an annotated bibliography of both communication studies and
service-learning resources (books, journals, pedagogical tools, etc., that
provide helpful materials for neophytes as well as more advanced
practitioners).
4. Key organizations, associations, and networks (including addresses,
phone numbers, e-mail addresses) that interested parties might turn to for
more information.
Deadline for submissions:
Contributors are asked to submit a 2 - 4 page prospectus by June 1, 1996.
Notification of acceptance will be provided by July 1 and final essays, on
3.5 diskette in a standard word processing format, are due October 1.
Manuscript preparation should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. An
overview of this manual is available on the World Wide Web at:
http://stdsbbs.ieee.org/development/styleman/body2.htm.
Please send your prospectus to:
Bren Ortega Murphy
Chair/Associate Professor of Communication
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Rd.
Sullivan Center 012
Chicago IL 60626
if you have any questions pleas feel free to contact
David Droge droge@ups.edu
or Bren Ortega Murphy bmurphy@wpo.it.luc.edu