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Authentic, democratic partnerships involving universities, schools, and an array of neighborhood and community organizations...
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In this book the authors use illustrations from over 20 years of experience working with public schools in the University of...
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Since 1985, Professor Emeritus of History Lee Benson, as well as the author, along with numerous colleagues, have worked to...
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Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania as a secular institution with the pragmatic aim of instilling in its...
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In this chapter, the author demonstrates that a democratic mission is the core mission of American Higher Education, and...
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The Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI) is a University of Pennsylvania/West Philadelphia schools academically-based community...
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The study of the early urban research university may be a source of ideas for ideas and approaches to the service-learning...
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This volume, 16th in a series about service learning and the academic disciplines, focuses on the ways service-learning adds...
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In this article, the authors argue that American higher education is in the early stages of a third revolution that is leading...
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In this article, the authors argue that the academic-practitioner divide is largely a product of the Platonic false dualism...
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In this article, the authors argue that American higher education is in the early stages of a third revolution that is leading...
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Action research is an approach to knowledge generation that can strengthen communities and institutions and that is ideally...
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A theory of service learning proposes structural community improvement as the goal. It goes beyond--but may subsume--...
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This chapter discusses the theoretical bases of academic service learning, with special attention to John Dewey's contributions...
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Examines the theoretical bases of academic service-learning, with particular attention to John Dewey's contributions....
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Despite the natural tendency for a partnership between urban universities and urban social service providers, the author notes...
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Strategic, academically based community service holds promise for creating the structural changes needed to reduce deprivation...
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The article describes the Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania as an organizational innovation...
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The authors discuss the impacts of "community problem-solving service learning" on student civic responsibility....
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As the 20th Century closes, a key question is: What can the social sciences do to help solve the problems of our society and...
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This book chapter describes how the University of Pennsylvania partners with John P. Turner Middle School in the West...
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This article presents a rationale for reinventing the American university to become once again a mission-oriented institution....
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The authors note that universities have done little to help alleviate collapsing urban communities. If universities are to...
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