Service Learning in Native Communities: the Generator School Project.

The article describes how the Generator School Project has involved students in a variety of service efforts that has replaced deficit, community rip-off models of teaching and learning with service learning models that are consonant with values and beliefs in American Indian communities. Service learning has been fully incorporated in participating schools, service based curriculum units have been developed, interdisciplinary lesson plans are commonplace, and highly skilled native teachers have emerged at project sites. The approach has fostered the development of community control, organic learning, students' tribal identities, cooperation, selflessness, and spirituality. (SH)