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Subject(s)

• Interpreters for deaf people—Training of. [Browse]
• Service learning [Browse]

Series

• Interpreter education series ; v. 6. [More in this series]
• Interpreter education series ; v. 6 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Institutions of higher learning around the nation have embraced the concept of student civic engagement as part of their curricula, a movement that has spurred administrators in various fields to initiate programs as part of their disciplines. In response, sign language interpreting educators are attempting to devise service-learning programs aimed at Deaf communities. Except for a smattering of journal articles, however, they have had no primary guide for fashioning these programs. Sherry Shaw remedies this in her new book Service Learning in Interpreter Education: Strategies for Extending Student Involvement in the Deaf Community. Shaw begins by outlining how to extend student involvement beyond the field experience of an internship or practicum and suggests how to overcome student resistance to a course that seems atypical. She introduces the educational strategy behind service-learning, explaining it as a tool for re-centering the Deaf community in interpreter education. She then provides the framework for a service-learning course syllabus, including establishing Deaf community partnerships and how to conduct student assessments. Service Learning in Interpreter Education concludes with first-person accounts from students and community members who recount their personal and professional experiences with service learning. With this thorough guide, interpreter education programs can develop stand-alone courses or modules within existing coursework."--Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-204)and index.

Contents

• Forewords / Janice Humphrey, Eileen Forestal
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Foundations of service-learning
• Conceptual framework : learning in the context of social capital and spatial theory
• Modifying the curriculum : alliance with the deaf community
• Implementing service-learning
• Course development : logistics and structure
• Forming partnerships : strength-based assessment, feasibility, and sustainability
• Student orientation : tolerating ambiguity, overcoming resistance, and completing the learning cycle
• Teaching academic reflection
• Evaluating service-learning
• Stakeholder perspectives, program spotlights, and resources
• Deaf community perspectives : reciprocity and collaboration
• Student perspectives : personal and professional impact / Tara Brown-Ogilvie, Lee Godbold, Tyree Joyner, D'Andra Parsons, Antoinette Rodi, and Kristen Willbur
• Case studies in service-learning : program spotlights / Len Roberson
• Annotated bibliography
• Appendix A: Sample syllabus for infused course
• Appendix B: Sample agreement form
• Appendix C: Program of study
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781563685552 (hard cover : alk. paper)
• 1563685558 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012045484

OCLC

826300571

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