RESEARCH

The goal of Learning In Deed’s Research Network is to promote communication among service-learning and educational reform researchers and practitioners and to stimulate more and better quality research in K-12 service-learning. Our work is focused in three broad areas:

Communication:

Provide an opportunity for researchers to share information about results and methodologies and discuss implications of their research.
Establish communication vehicles that enable researchers to grapple with issues, find commonalities and help members build on each other’s research.
Summarize the best evidence from the research in areas related to service-learning.
Disseminate valid and reliable results of service-learning studies to the field.

Capacity Building:

Assess the research needs within K-12 service-learning and related fields.
Convene researchers in service-learning and related education reform fields to focus on research needs, findings of impact and value, areas for collaboration and potential funders.
Focus, stimulate and coordinate a research base for service-learning and help build a national research agenda.
Help attract funding for high quality research within the field.

Connectedness:

Link research in service-learning and other related areas to practice and provide a vehicle for practitioners to discuss the implications of research for practice in a variety of fields.
Collaborate with other research networks related to service-learning to coordinate efforts and advance the field.

NEWS

2nd Annual Service-Learning Research Conference
Call for Proposals Out

In October of 2001, the long awaited First Annual International Conference on Service-Learning Research was held in Berkeley and brought 350 researchers, policymakers and others interested in service-learning research together to share and hear about new findings, research agendas and explore research interests. This year, we will convene the Second Annual International Conference in Nashville, Tennessee to build on this work. International scholars and practitioners who are actively engaged in service-learning research are invited to present their most recent breakthroughs in research findings, methodological approaches and theoretical advances at all levels: K-12 education, teacher education and higher education. We are also particularly interested in presentations from researchers in related fields whose theoretical or methodological approaches have something to offer to the service-learning research field.

Call for Proposals:

Proposals for paper or special topic presentations for this peer reviewed program are due by 5 PM MT April 19, 2002.

The Call for Proposals is available in PDF file on the conference website:
http://www.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/slresearchconf/

Proposals for Research on Civic Engagement by Young Americans - Now Being Accepted

The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) is accepting proposals for research on civic engagement by young Americans. Detailed information about CIRCLE grants is available at their website: http://www.civicyouth.org/

EVENTS

The 2nd Annual International Conference on Service-Learning Research at Loew's Vanderbilt Plaza, October 20-22, 2002

The Second Annual International Conference on Service-Learning Research will be held at Loew's Vanderbilt Plaza adjacent to the Vanderbilt University Campus in Nashville, Tennessee, October 20-22, 2002. Researchers, policymakers and practitioners interested in teh lastest advances in service-learning research are invited to attend. The Call for Proposals, due April 19, 2002, is available in PDF file on the conference website: http://www.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/slrearchconf/

For more information about Learning In Deed's Research Network, contact Shelley Billig at 800-922-3636 or e-mail billig@rmcdenver.com.

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