Opening plenary, The Gathering, Golden, Colorado, 2017

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: In May 2017, Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service co-sponsored a four-day meeting of scholars and practitioners involved with service-learning and civic engagement in higher education. This meeting became known as "The Gathering: An intergenerational dialogue among service-learning "pioneers" and those who will build and sustain the field in the future." The Gathering was held twenty-two years after a December 1995 Wingspread conference that brought together a group of service-learning "pioneers" to reflect on the field's early history and recommend measures for strengthening policy and practice. The 1995 Wingspread meeting resulted in the publication of the book, "Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice and Future," (Stanton, Giles & Cruz, Jossey-Bass, 1999). As the field has experienced significant growth over the past two decades, the time was right to bring together some of the original pioneers from the 1995 Wingspread conference with a group of younger, "next generation" service-learning and civic engagement scholars. Together, they engaged in a cross-generational dialogue and exploration to reflect on the current state of the service-learning and civic engagement field, now fifty years after its emergence in higher education in the 1960s.

Organizer of meeting	Stanton, Timothy
Originator	Ikeda, Elaine Kimiko, 1965-
Sponsor	Haas Center for Public Service (Stanford University)

Subject	Service learning > United States > Congresses
Genre	Speeches
Genre	Nonfiction films

Note	Reformatted by Stanford University Libraries in 2019.
Source ID	sc0541_2018_048_v002
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/vm443sx4208
Location	SC0541, 2018-049, Video 2
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University, Haas Center for Public Service, records, 1916-2000 (inclusive), 1984-2000 (bulk)

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