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Total number of Library Resources: 209
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Understanding Service-Learning and Community Engagement: Crossing Boundaries Through Research (2012)There is an increasing proliferation of service-learning courses in colleges and universities in the U.S. and internationally, and research in the field has seen significant growth in diverse geographic areas in the past decade. Membership organizations now exist to convene scholars and practitioners across the globe. Chapters in this volume are based on presentations given at the 2010 annual conference of the International Association...
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This volume will be a valuable resource to instructors who teach in the fields of teacher education, social studies, educational leadership, social work, social, cultural and philosophical foundations of education, sociology, political science, and global studies as well as their students. Due to the volume's international focus, we also expect that it will purchased by a large number of university libraries, researchers, educators and others...
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Committed to teaching for peace and justice, the author brings to life a teaching approach that empowers youth to think critically and creatively about historical, current, and future issues; to care about classmates and neighbors as well as the global community; and to act - locally and globally - for the greater good. The book will inspire readers to build a just and peaceful world, and depicts the daily successes and struggles a peace...
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Research on service-learning and community engagement has exploded over the past decade. It is a field now characterized by increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, vast quantitative and qualitative studies, interdisciplinary research, myriad subjects, and the internationalization of scholarship.The papers in this volume were selected from nearly 100 presentations made at the 2009 annual conference of the International...
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High dropout rates continue to be a silent epidemic afflicting our nation's schools. Although some measurable progress is being made in some school districts and states to raise high school graduation rates, and federal, state, and local policies and practices are changing to meet the dropout challenge, the nation's progress is too slow and the individual, social, and economic costs continue to mount. The success of our nation's students is...
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In March 2010, the Obama administration released A Blueprint for Reform, setting forth its proposed revisions of the Elemnrary and Secondary Education Act/ If enacted, the Blueprint will shape the curriculum, standards, assessments, and accountability systems of schools throughout the nation. It will also determine how and where federal education funds will be targeted, further increase federal control over K-12 education, and increase the...
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This thorough presentation of the PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) model provides educators with a systemic approach to dropout prevention. In addition, results from implementation in several New Hampshire high schools illustrate its strengths.
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This module contains descriptions of the FLTC, CNCS, and an overview of service-learning in elder care and intergenerational service-learning and the differences between them. It concludes with a conceptual basis for the IGSL concept, linking it with Erik Erikson's concept of generativity.
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This four-page project brief introduces AACC's sixth national Learn and Serve America grant project and describes its grantee college programs. The goals of Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, supported by Learn and Serve America and administered by the American Association of Community Colleges, are to build on established foundations to integrate service learning into the institutional climate of community colleges...
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Authentic relationships between students and educators are important in the process of learning. Building these relationships with disengaged or at-risk students can be difficult at best. This monograph presents an overview of an approach to building authentic relationships based on the experience, insights, and educational background of the author, who is both a principal and a clinical social worker. Building trust as a means to...
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Growing to Greatness 2010 explores the state of K-12 service-learning in the United States. This year's edition explores two themes: (1) service-learning teaching quality, and (2) breaking down barriers to service-learning. It also includes profiles of eight national organizations working to bring service-learning to young people across the United States. It is a critical publication for school administrators, graduate students of education or...
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This module is the longest and most detailed module of the eight as it (a) describes the grant awarded to the Foundation for Long-Term Care; (b) provides a complete description of how the project operated at the participating five campuses and communities, including individual research findings from each site; c) a videotaped interview between Dr. James Heffernan, Senior Executive Consultant of the New York State Campus Compact and Dr. Paul...
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Learn how elected officials, in particular mayors, can be engaged in dropout prevention and what school officials and citizens can do to engage their elected officials.
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This volume of Growing to Greatness focuses on what research shows about high-quality service-learning practice, tries to build a comprehensive framework for that quality practice, looks at how service-learning is institutionalized and sustained, approaches new ways of measuring the scope, scale, and impact of service-learning by reporting on educational policies that support service-learning, gathers data on how it's funded, invests its reach...
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As a follow-up to its report three years ago on the dropout crisis in American public education, Civic Enterprises has created a new report that includes the views of teachers and administrators, perspectives missing from its first report. In their surveys and focus groups, the authors found that teachers and administrators supported measures to address the crisis, but less than one-third of teachers thought schools should expect all students...
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An annual report that elevates the discussion of our nation's civic health by measuring a wide variety of civic indicators, America's Civic Health Index is in an effort to educate Americans about our civic life and to motivate citizens, leaders and policymakers to strengthen it.The 2009 America's Civic Health Index is based on a nationally representative survey of 1,518 Americans and additional samples of 2,371 respondents in six states,...
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In this volume in the IAP series on Advances in Service-Learning Research, top researchers present recent work studying aspects of program development, student and community outcomes, and future research directions in the field of service-learning and community engagement. These chapters, selected through a rigorous peer review process, are based on papers presented at the annual meeting of the International Research Conference on Service-...
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Institutions of higher education exist to prepare young men and women for useful and productive lives. Some aim even higher: to produce a new generation of thinkers and leaders who will in their professional lives contribute significatnly to the development of their countries, and to produce research that expands the realm of the known. Through these actions, institutions of higher education fulfill their social responsibility. This paper...
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If your students can't read, they cannot learn science, math, or history and are more likely to become dropouts. With this latest publication, educators at the middle and high school levels will learn techniques to assist their struggling readers in learning important reading skills, no matter what these educators teach.
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Growing to Greatness (G2G) is the first comprehensive national study of the state of service-learning in kindergarten through 12th grade. It documents the unfolding story of service-learning, providing information to improve implementation, inform public policy, and give a clear picture of the many ways young people contribute to society. This fourth year report follows the 2004 report (focus on impact on schools), the 2005 report (focus on...
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This book presents inventive approaches to using service-learning to introduce students to political engagement. The work of faculty representing a wide variety of disciplines, this compilation of innovative and varied courses offers models to adapt and ideas to stimulate the creativity of instructors. The chapters in this book describe how teachers in Politics, Education, Urban and Regional Planning, Business, Communications, Sociology,...
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This book has three major goals: 1. to introduce readers to the concept of resilience 2. to enable readers to understand how resilience can be both enhanced and acquired through the development of protective factors through service-learning 3. to demonstrate how service-learning can be implemented to purposefully strengthen resilience in youth (author)
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The Education Commission of the States recently updated a 50-state review of state policies that encourage student involvement in decision-making and policymaking. While many institutions of higher education, districts and schools have similar policies, this review was limited to identifying those opportunities codified at the state level in state statute and administrative code. This paper explores and discusses student participation in local...
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The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is the nation's leading advocate for civic participation and the only organization chartered by Congress to play that role. The NCoC created America's Civic Health Index to assess how the American people were performing on a wide array of indicators of civic health. Since America's Civic Health Index was first published in 2006, and featured in TIME Magazine, the NCoC has published annual reports to...
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This eighth volume in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series includes eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in the seventh annual conference of the International Association of Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007. The volume builds upon the theme of that conference: "Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and the K-20 Continuum," bringing...
