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Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 publications, including more than 7,300 scholarly journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Some content goes back as far as 1887. Highly recommended for all academic subjects.
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Internet/Web Resources (unlicensed)

"New Directions for Cooperative Education" ERIC Digest #209 1999
< http://www.ericdigests.org/2000-2/new.htm > 17 May 2004
Article includes a history of cooperative education, current trends and additional source materials. The article mentions LaGuardia Community College's program several times as a "highly successful" example.

Hamilton, Mary Agnes and Stephen F. Hamilton. Learning Well at Work: Choices for Quality.
School to Work Opportunities, Cornell Youth and Work Program, April 1997.
24 Feburary 2010 < www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED411390&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED411390 >

Service Learning Programs on Community College Campuses. ERIC Digest 2000.
18 May 2004 < http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-4/service.html >

Ascher, Carol. "Cooperative Education as a Strategy for School-to-Work Transition." CenterFocus no.3 1994.
< http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF3.html >

Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education (ACVE)
< http://www.calpro-online.org/ERIC/index.asp >

Fenwick, Tara J. "Experiential Learning: a Theoretical Critique From Five Perspectives."
ACVE Clearinghouse on Adult, Career and Vocational Education 2001
< www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED454418&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED454418 >

Inger, Morton. "School-to-Work Programs in Postsecondary Education."
CenterFocus no. 7, 1995
< http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF7.html >

Kane, Stephen M. "The Cooperative Education Learning Model." NorthEastern University
< http://www.dac.neu.edu/coop.ed/s.kane/learnmod.html >

Professional Organizations

Regional Organizations

Books

Action learning at work / Alan Mumford, editor. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 1997.
HD30.4 .A29 1997

Bailey, Thomas R. (Thomas Raymond) Working knowledge: work-based learning and education reform / Thomas R. Bailey, Katherine L. Hughes and David Thornton Moore. New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
LC 1049 .B35 2004

Bandura, Albert. Social foundations of thought and action : a social cognitive theory / Albert Bandura.Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, c1986.
HM 251 .B433 1986

Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a theory of practice / Pierre Bourdieu ; translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977 (2002 printing)
DT 298 .K2 B6913 1977

Burnard, Philip. Experiential learning in action / Philip Burnard. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower Pub. Co., c1991.
RT 73 .B87 1991

Campbell, James. Understanding John Dewey: nature and cooperative intelligence/ James Campbell. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court, 1995.
B 945 .D4 C36 1995

Cantor, Jeffrey A. Cooperative education and experiential learning : forming community-technical college and business partnerships / Jeffrey A. Cantor. Toronto : Wall & Emerson, 1995.
LC1049.5 .C36 1995

Cates, Cheryl. Learning outcomes : the educational value of cooperative education / Cheryl Cates, Patricia Jones. Columbia, Md. : Cooperative Education Association, c1999.
LC 1049.5 .C38 1999

Current resources in cooperative learning / Anne Wade ... [et al.]. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1995.
REF LB 1032 .C87 1995

Developing successful partnerships with business and the community / Mary S. Spangler, editor. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2002.
LB 2341 .D48 2002

Enhancing articulation and transfer / Carolyn Prager, editor.San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1988.
LB 2359 .E53 1988

Dewey, John, 1859-1952. Experience and education / by John Dewey. New York : Collier Books, c1938, 1963 printing.
LB 875 .D3943 1963

Experiential education for community development / edited by Paul S. Denise and Ian M. Harris. New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.
HN 49 .C6 E97 1989

Experiential learning : a new approach / Lewis Jackson, Rosemary S. Caffarella, editors.San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1994.
LC 5219 .E965 1994

Experiential learning around the world : employability and the global economy / edited by Norman Evans. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000.
LB2324 .E95 2000

Evans, Norman. Experiential learning : assessment and accreditation / by Norman Evans.New York : Routlege, 1991.
LC 45.3 .E93 1991

Eyler, Janet. Where's the learning in service-learning? / Janet Eyler, Dwight E. Giles, Jr. ; foreword by Alexander W. Astin.San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1999.
LC 220.5 .E95 1999

Gergen, Kenneth J. An invitation to social construction / Kenneth J. Gergen. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1999.
HM 1033 .G47 1999

Handbook for research in cooperative education and internships / edited by Patricia Linn, Adam Howard, Eric Miller. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Publishers, 2004.
LC 1049 .H36 2004

Handbook of cooperative learning methods / Shlomo Sharan, editor. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
REF LB 1032 .H362 1994

Hopkins, Richard L. Narrative schooling : experiential learning and the transformation of American education / Richard L. Hopkins.New York : Teachers College Press, c1994.
LB 1027 .23 .H67 1994

How people learn : brain, mind, experience, and school / John D. Bransford ... [et al.], editors ; Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning and Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2000.
LB 1060 .H672 2000

Improving learning transfer in organizations / Elwood F. Holton III, Timothy T. Galdwin, editors. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2003.
HD58.82 .I47 2003

Inkster, Robert P. The internship as partnership : a handbook for businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies / Robert P. Inkster, Roseanna G. Ross. Needham Heights, Mass. : Simon & Schuster Custom Pub., c1998.
LB 1731 .I54 1998

Jacoby, Barbara. Building partnerships for service-learning / Barbara Jacoby and associates. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, 2003.
LC 221 .J33 2003

Kolb, David A. Experiential learning : experience as the source of learning and development / David A. Kolb. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [c1984].
REF LB 1067 .K63 1984

Lave, Jean. Situated learning : legitimate peripheral participation / Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
BF 318 .L36 1991

Making sponsored experiential learning standard practice / Thomas C. Little, editor. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1983.
LC 1049.5 .M25 1983

Promoting community renewal through civic literacy and service learning / Michael H. Parsons, C. David Lisman, editors. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1996.
LC 220.5 .P76 1996

Ryder, Kenneth G. Cooperative education in a new era : understanding and strengthening the links between college and the workplace / Kenneth G. Ryder, James W. Wilson, and associates ; foreword by Ralph W. Tyler. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1987.
LB 1029.C6 R93 1987

Slavin, Robert E. Cooperative learning : theory, research, and practice / Robert E. Slavin. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, c1995.
LB 1032 .S543 1995

Stanton, Timothy. Service-learning: a movement's pioneers reflect on its origins, practice, and future / Timothy Stanton. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.
LC220.5 .S72 1999

Tacit knowledge in professional practice : researcher and practitioner perspectives / edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Joseph A. Horvath.Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999.
BF317.5.T33 1999

Transfer and articulation : improving policies to meet new needs / Tronie Rifkin, editor.San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1996.
LB 2360 .T72 1996

Transfer students : trends and issues / Frankie Santos Laanan, editor. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2001.
LB 2360 .T73 2001

Using experience for learning / edited by David Boud, Ruth Cohen and David Walker. Buckingham [England] ; Bristol, PA : Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 1993.
LB 1027.23 .U85 1993

Wells, C. Gordon. Dialogic inquiry : towards a sociocultural practice and theory of education / Gordon Wells.New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 (2003 printing)
LB 1060 .W457 1999

Wenger, Etienne. Communities of practice : learning, meaning, and identity / Etienne Wenger. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
HD 58.82 .W45 1999

Wertsch, James V. Mind as action / James V. Wertsch. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
BF 57 .W46 1998