 | Hot Topics highlight recommended resource items, both online and in the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse library, on important service-learning related subjects. The resources in this category help to make the connection between service-learning, civic education and democracy, and the need for a democratic society to educate its citizens in respect to such areas as human rights, individual dignity and worth, the rule of law, and the common good. An understanding of historically democratic political systems, and the foundations upon which they were built, is essential to civic education.
September 2004 (Updated July 2008) |
| | NSLC Site Resources | - Civics in K-12 Education (NSLC Fact Sheet)
- Civic Education through Service Learning (Brian Garman, 1995)
- The Civic Mission of Schools (CIRCLE and Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2003)
- Fostering Civic Responsibility (Constitutional Rights Foundation, Service-Learning Network, Spring 2000)
- Kids Around Town: Civic Education through Democratic Action (Kids Around Town, 1997)
- Local Government: The Learning Laboratory (Constitutional Rights Foundation, Service-Learning Network, Spring 2001)
- The Role of Civic Education (Center for Civic Education, 1998)
- Service-Learning and Civic Education: Campus Compact Reader (Summer 2001) (448K pdf)
- Service, Social Studies, and Citizenship: Connections for the New Century (Robert Shumer, 1999)
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