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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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This case study describes landscape design projects undertaken by landscape architecture faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students at the University of Washington in conjunction with a number of public agencies and community groups. What lessons might these projects offer others considering working with community groups? Over two hundred years ago Horace Walpole famously observed that William Kent - an early exponent of the English Landscape...
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Community-university partnerships have impacted the Department of Pediatric Dentistry in profound ways and shaped a set of commitments that will affect how dentists are educated and dental services are delivered in the State of Washington in the foreseeable future. Since the 1970s, the School of Dentistry has rotated pre-doctoral students into partner communities where some have elected to work with poor children under the supervision of the...
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The Global Service Institute (GSI) is a long-term project to study, inform, and assist in the development of service worldwide. It supports research, is in the process of creating a web-based information network, and supports innovations in policy and program development. GSI publishes Service Enquiry in partnership with Volunteer and Service Enquiry Southern Africa (VOSESA), a regional service and volunteering information centre for southern...
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For the past decade, the authors have studied high school community service programs for the purpose of learning more about the conditions that promote students' civic development. The tragic events of September 11, 2001, happened to coincide with the final year of their study of a suburban public high school near Boston, MA. This timing permitted them to assess youths' views of the tragic events, and whether 9/11 had an effect on their civic...
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The focus of this booklet is to help instructors and students recognize the role of public speaking and provide the skills needed to employ the "youth voice". The ability to effectively communicate about service-learning experiences in a variety of settings can be of significant value for many reasons. Through public speaking, the concept of service-learning, its associated benefits, the students' overall experiences, and finally the...
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This Statistics in Brief examines the patterns and characteristics of individual involvement in community service activities from high school through early adulthood. Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), this Brief describes the characteristics of young adults who volunteered, when they volunteered, why they volunteered, and for which types of organizations they volunteered. Based on data from the NELS:88...
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As part of the Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning grant, AACC (American Association of Community Colleges) convened the chief academic officers (CAOs) from colleges it had funded between 1994 and 2000, as well as new AACC grantees for 2000-2003. AACC's previous Horizons grantees comprised faculty and staff who worked on service learning projects. The 2000-2003 program intentionally included CAOs for the first time to...
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The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) conducted a survey in 2003 to gauge the level of service learning involvement in community colleges across the nation. This research brief summarizes the findings from that survey and reveals a snapshot of institutional and programmatic involvement during a time of state budget shortfalls and significant cutbacks in education programs. The 2003 survey included many of the same questions asked...
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Includes theoretical papers, pedagogical papers (at the course and institutional level) on the topic of religious studies and service-learning. Part of a series covering a range of specific disciplines in higher education. Includes print and electronic resource guide.
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This book explores the multidisiplinary dimensions of service-learning and the implications of these dimensions for the study of service-learning.
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This monograph documents the congruence of two powerful educational concerns: the success of first year students and the potential of service-learning as a teaching-learning strategy. Over the past 10 years in particular, both these concerns have gained an ever larger group of adherents. However, until recently, neither has fully realized how important each could be to the other or the degree to which many of their values, challenges, and even...
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The author describes a rural service-learning program at Britton's Neck high school and provides instructions for project duplication. Students worked with the fire department after a community-needs survey assessment. Partial contents: Getting Started / Results of the Survey / School-to-Work Initiative Tie-In / Curriculum Connections / Administrative Support / Funding / Reflection / The Celebration / Tangible Results / What Our Students Have...
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This research brief analyzes the institutionalization of service-learning programs in 90 community colleges. In 1994 and again in 1997, AACC selected groups of institutions, known as Horizons colleges, to work together in collaborative mentoring relationships to build campus-based service-learning programs. While the number of service-learning programs at community colleges has grown significantly in the past 5 years, not all of those programs...
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Grounded in the related practices of ethical deliberation and civic action, this text shows how to implement effective service-learning projects in colleges and universities and larger communities. Discussions of rhetoric and ethics are supplemented with heuristics for analyzing the larger cultural effects of service-learning projects. Includes three sample students projects, narrative insights, assignments showing the wide range of technical...
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This volume makes the stories of schools, government departments, and universities successfully engaged in collaborative projects within their communities available to the public. Authors write from teaching contexts in New Zealand, North America, South Africa, and England. Their 13 accounts show how plans to teach English to families, workers, students, new settlers, and long-term residents gradually emerged as satisfying community partnerships...
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In this collection, Champagne and Stauss examine the decades-long struggle in higher education to build Native Studies from the ground up and to develop key working models for indigenous studies in American university settings. The individual contributors provide histories of the last four decades of these programs, describing and analyzing their evolution, administrative and financial relationships, philosophies, course development, and in...
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Focusing on the service role of faculty and the concept of engagement, this volume provides much needed guidance on continuing the institutionalization of Ernest L. Boyer's groundbreaking concept of "scholarship reconsidered" ten years after its introduction into the academy. Challenging traditional notions of service, author Kelly Ward reviews the application of research to practice or service on campus committees and disciplinary societies....
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This issue brief discusses the place of service-learning in teacher education programs. Topics covered include "meeting professional and pedagogical knowledge and skills through service-learning", and "ten principles that contribute to successful service-learning outcomes." Includes a variety of "service-learning snapshots" that describe real service-learning programs and their impacts.
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An important part of NCATE Accreditation is how to deal with the dispositions in programs and assessment systems. Experience derived from opportunities in service-learning offers a rich array of attention to dispositions that all teachers in training should possess. This issue brief covers the links between service-learning and NCATE standard 1: Candidate Dispositions. Service-learning can contribute to several key dispositions of professional...
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Project examples and ideas for integrating service-learning and writing/publishing for the K-12 level. Includes a project example from the Upcountry Writing Project, in which South Carolina students and teachers have crafted and published stories about their communities to construct a sense of place, meaning, and shared history and culture.
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The second edition of annotations of over 200 dissertations on service, service-learning, and related topics. These dissertations were produced from the 1970s through 2001. Each entry provides a citation and an abstract.
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This issue paper examines the rationale for the implementation of youth voice in service-learning initiatives, examines challenges practitioners may face and offers strategies for success. It includes case studies profiling exemplary programs across the nation and perspectives from youth, school administrators, service-learning advocates and state policymakers, and it provides recommendations and resources for schools, organizations and...
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The Linking Learning with Life series of service-learning booklets are relevant to all levels of service learning, and particularly relevant to use in teacher education programs. The suggestions in this guidebook will assist the preservice teacher in using each of the different guides to enhance their service-learning instruction for both preservice and active teachers.
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This guidebook details ways in which gardening and related activities can be used for educational and community goals, and unique service-learning opportunities for all ages. Illustrated with projects in school and community settings.
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Service-learning, as defined by the editors, is the generation of knowledge that is of benefit to the community as a whole. This seventh volume in the Outreach Scholarship book series contributes a unique discussion of how service learning functions as a critical cornerstone of outreach scholarship. The sections and chapters of this book marshal evidence in support of the idea that undergraduate service learning, infused throughout the...
