Service-Learning in Asia: Curricular Models and Practices

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Contents Foreword by Edward K. Y. Chen vii List of Contributors ix Introduction: Service-learning in Asia 1 Jun Xing and Carol Hok Ka Ma Part I: Variations in Meaning and Forms 15 1. Bridging Classrooms to Communities in Service-learning Programs 17 Charn Mayot 2. An Appreciation of Cross-cultural Differences through International 31 Service-learning at International Christian University, Japan Yutaka Sato, Florence McCarthy, Mutsuko Murakami, Takashi Nishio, and Kano Yamamoto 3. Building Students’ Total Learning Experience through Integrating 47 Service-learning into the Teacher Education Curriculum Kwok Hung Lai 4. Service-learning Models in the Asia-Pacific Region and 63 Lady Doak College J. Chithra and Helen Mary Jacqueline Part II: Case Studies 71 5. The Community-based Instruction Program at Hong Kong 73 Baptist University John H. Powers 6. How Actions Can Become Learning: The Cross-cultural 85 Effectiveness of Service-learning in Asia Jens Mueller and Dennis Lee 7. Intercultural Service-learning and Multicultural Symbiosis 91 Enrique G. Oracion 8. Service-learning in University Curricula: A Case Study at 111 Fu Jen Catholic University Jen-Chi Yen and Bai-Chuan Yang 9. International Service-learning: A Singapore Experience 127 Dennis Lee 10. A Cross-cultural Service-learning Program Model: W.T. Chan 143 Fellowships Program Jane Szutu Permaul Notes 157 References 161 Index 171 Contents vi ...