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Library Resources Filtered by Author: "Robert Shumer"

Total number of Library Resources: 71

Topic Bibliography on Resiliency and At-Risk Youth (1994)

This is a bibliography of organizations, websites, books, and periodicals on literacy and service-learning connections to...
Community Based Learning in the Inner City of a Major Metropolitan Area: TeamWorks 1993. (1993)

This project, involving four Chicago Public High Schools during the summer of 1993, had college and high school students assist...
Academic Learning Plus Experiential Learning Equals Complete Learning (1993)

This paper explores the idea of granting academic credit for service-learning activities such as: internships, apprenticeships...
Community Service Learning and the Vocational Teacher. (1993)

This is a collection of essays and articles from a conference sponsored by the Department of Vocational and Technical Education...
Service Learning: A Study of Exemplary Practice. (1993)

Shumer outlines the results of a study from the Generator Center, College of Education at the University of Minnesota on...
Teaming Up at UCLA: A Report to the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (1993)

This is a first year report on the UCLA alumni project, "Education in Action: Developing a New Effort to Expand Community...
Vocational Education 5100: Experiential Learning and Youth Development (1993)

This course syllabus lists the course objectives, seven session topics, and supplies a format for the course's portfolio.
Curriculum Workshop: Student Centered Curriculum. 1993 National Service Learning. (1993)

These are the handouts from an introductory workshop on developing curriculum using a student-centered, community-based...
Service Learning: A Necessary Element in Educational and Social Programs. (1993)

Service-learning is viewed as a means of introducing students to skills that potential employers are seeking. Employers want...
Community Based Learning: An Evaluation (1993)

In one attempt to deal with the dropout problems, faculty from the University of California (Los Angeles) have forged a...
Executive Summary: Describing Service-Learning, a Delphi Study (1993)

A group of national experts were asked to explain what service-learning is through descriptions of existing models and to...
Doing Self-Directed Study for Service-Learning (1992)

This workbook is designed for use in training sessions to introduce service-learning practitioners to the evaluation process...
Reforming American Education: The Role of Community (1992)

This think piece examines the role of community in educational reform. The paper maintains that while many scholars, business...
Teacher Education and Service Learning (1992)

Shumer discusses a study at the University of Minnesota to change teacher preparation programs to include community-based and...
Service Learning and the Power of Participation: Schools, Communities, and Learning (1992)

Service-learning provides the opportunity for students to participate, along with members of their community, in the solution...
Evaluation of 1992 WalkAbout Program: Minneapolis Public Schools (1992)

This document is an account of WalkAbout, a summer session for grades K-10 who are involved in community service as a part of...
Reflection: At the Heart of Experiential Learning (1991)

Shumer offers a matrix of types of reflection and types of activities. This matrix is intended to spur discussion and be tested...
Setting a Research Agenda for Service Learning (1991)

Shumer overviews research in the areas of experiential and service learning. Through his research he has come up with nine...
Learning in the Workplace: an Ethnographic Study of the Relationship Between Schools and Experienced Based Educational Programs. (1987)

This study examines how school and field site staff work together to improve student learning in an experiential high school...
Taking Community Service Seriously (1987)

Addresses the questions (1) how should community service be rendered by youth and (2) whom should it benefit. Warns that both...
Students as Evaluators: Service-Learning Helping Service-Learning Programs ()

By creating opportunities for students to assist with the evaluation of service-learning programs, we create a new mechanism...