WHAT'S NEW!!

AAHE ANNOUNCES BOOK ON SERVICE LEARNING

RESTON, VA - American Association for Health Education (AAHE)
Executive Director, Becky Smith announced today the release of a new book entitled Service Learning in Health Education. This text provides a complete guide for incorporating service learning into health education curricula at the secondary or higher education levels.

Dr. Jerrold Greenberg, Professor in the Department of Public and Community Health at the University of Maryland served at the Editor for the book and he states: "We are very grateful to members of the AAHE Service Learning Group who contributed chapters to this state of the art text".
Areas of focus include:
        *        Differentiation between service learning and other forms of
                 service;
        *       The theoretical basis of service learning;
        *       Research which supports service learning goals;
        *       How service learning has been employed in health educationp;
        *        Establishing and maintaining partnerships with community
                 agencies;
        *        Conducting meaningful reflection and evaluation;
        *       Grading.

Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) can obtain 13 hours of
continuing education credit through completing the professional development components of the book.

This book may be ordered by phoning 800-321-0789 or online at
http://www.aahperd.org/template.cfm

Revised March 19, 2001 Keiko Honda
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