Serving to Learn, Learning to Serve: Civics and Service from A to Z

This book espouses service-learning as an important and integral part of school for students. It stresses the positive benefits to be gained from service-learning, as well as the good the activities do for the community. It notes that service-learning should be used to promote a sense of civic responsibility and pride in the students. It also promotes the intertwining of service and learning as most beneficial to students. The 26 short chapters of the book, based on the letters of the alphabet, cover the following: awards and appreciation; books and birthdays; civics, civility, and concern; daring and doing; equity; French and other foreign languages; government; helping; interns; justice; kindness; Like What? and liability; money; natural science; obligation; physical education; quid pro quo; recreation; SerVermont; time and transportation; United States; value; who; xenophilia; youth; and zeal. Contains 23 resources (ERIC)