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Andrew Furco (b. April 17, 1961) is an American scholar, researcher, and educator in the field of experiential education, whose work has focused primarily on advancing research in service learning. Service learning is an instructional approach whereby students participate in community service that is linked to their academic learning.〔National Service Learning Clearinghouse: What is Service-Learning? http://www.servicelearning.org/what-service-learning, ''Retrieved June 5, 2010''.〕 Service learning been adopted in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities in the United States, Canada and in countries throughout South America,〔CLAYSS Latin American Center for Service Learning http://www.clayss.org.ar/ingles/index.htm ''Retrieved June 4, 2010''.〕 Australia,〔Learn and Serve Australia (LASA) http://www.lasa.org.au/ ''Retrieved November 3, 2010''.〕 Africa,〔Patel, L., Perold, H., Mohamed, S.E., Carapinha, R.E. (2007). ''Five Country Study on Service and Volunteering in Southern Africa'', CSD Research Report No. 07-19, St. Louis: Washington University in St. Louis.〕 Asia〔The Amity Foundation - Service Learning Program; Nanjing, China http://www.amityfoundation.org/page.php?page=188 ''Retrieved January 5, 2011'',〕 and Europe (i.e., Germany,〔Lernen durch Engagement: Netzwerk Service-Learning http://www.servicelearning.de/ ''Retrieved January 5, 2011''.〕 Ireland,〔Community Knowledge Initiative, National University of Ireland, Galway http://www.nuigalwaycki.ie/menu.asp?menu=3109 ''Retrieved June 4, 2010''.〕 Spain〔Centre Promotor d'Aprenentage Servei; Barcelona, Spain http://www.aprenentatgeservei.org/ ''Retrieved January 5, 2011''〕). ==Contributions to Service Learning== In 1994, Furco established the Service Learning Research and Development Center at the University of California, Berkeley, which is cited as the United States’ first university-based research center for the study of service learning.〔Graduate School of Education (2005, Summer). "School Opens Service Learning Center." ''Term Paper''. Berkeley: University of California. http://gse.berkeley.edu/admin/publications/termpaper/summer95/school.opens.html ''Retrieved June 4, 2010''〕 As the director of this center, he led 26 studies of service learning (domestic and international), which include some of the nation's earliest studies to examine the effects of service learning on participating students. In 1996, he published the paper, “Service-Learning: A Balanced Approach to Experiential Education”, in which he distinguishes service learning from other similar forms of experiential learning, including volunteerism, community service, field education, and internships. Cited in more than 200 publications,〔Google Scholar Citation List for Andrew Furco http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=furco&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C24&as_sdtp=on ''Retrieved January 5, 2011''〕 this paper has been used at a substantial number of colleges and universities as a basis for defining service learning.〔Campus Compact: What is Service Learning? http://www.usm.maine.edu/servicelearning/whatis.html ''Retrieved March 5, 2011'' ''See also'' Virginia Polytechnic University http://www.vtserves.vt.edu/Faculty/ServiceLearningHandbook/; Bethel University http://www.bethel.edu/cas/off-campus-programs/service-learning/; Dominican University of California http://www.dominican.edu/academics/service/questions.html; Wegweiser Buergergesellschaft http://www.buergergesellschaft.de/engagementfoerderung/schule-und-engagement/service-learning/103669/ ''Retrieved March 5, 2011''〕 In 2001, he helped launch and hosted the 1st Annual International Conference on Service-Learning Research. This international conference, held in Berkeley, California October 21–23 brought together more than 350 participants from a dozen countries to present new research on service learning and to form a network of service learning researchers.〔National Service Learning Clearinghouse - The Evidence Base for Service Learning in Higher Education. http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/he_facts/evidence/ ''Retrieved June 5, 2010''.〕 The conference continues to be offered annually, hosted by different universities. Through this annual conference, the network of service learning researchers has continue to grow. In 2006, the network was formalized into the first professional international association focused on service learning research (International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement or IARSLCE).〔International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement; History http://www.researchslce.org/about-2/history/ ''Retrieved June 5, 2010''.〕 Furco has developed and validated a number of survey instruments for the study of service learning, including pre-post surveys that measure changes in participants’ perceptions, attitudes, and understanding on civic, social, personal, and academic issues.〔Place-Based Education Evaluation Collaborative: Furco/UC Berkeley Surveys/Tools http://www.peecworks.org/PEEC/PEEC_Inst/S016E8B87-016E8B8B ''Retrieved September 17, 2010''.〕 His Self-Assessment Rubric for Institutionalizing Service Learning in Higher Education (1998), commonly referred to as ''The Furco Rubric'', is a self-assessment instrument that measures the level of service learning institutionalization at universities or colleges. ''The Furco Rubric'' has been incorporated into the service learning planning and development at more than 300 colleges and universities in various countries.〔Campus Compact Consulting Corps: Andrew Furco http://www.compact.org/initiatives/consulting-corps/andrew-furco/4387/ ''Retrieved June 5, 2010''. ''See also'' http://www.league.org/league/projects/ccti/summit/2006/ccti2006-5.ppt and http://www.mccneb.edu/insidestory/viewarchive.asp?issue=2008-10-03〕 His body of work on service-learning includes journal articles, technical reports, and the books, ''Service Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy'' (2001) and ''Service Learning Through a Multidisciplinary Lens'' (2002), both of which he co-edited with Shelley Billing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Furco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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