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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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The chapters of this volume focus on a broad range of topics that address a variety of research issues on service-learning in K-12 education, teacher education, and higher education. This book contains essays in three categories: theoretical issues regarding service-learning, the impacts of service-learning, and methodological approaches to studying service-learning.
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Included within each chapter are examples of research in action, focusing on specific interactive activities or programs designed to bring families and schools together. Such promising practices are organized into chapters dealing with two-way home-school communication, family literacy projects, school-site parent centers, parent-school collaborative governance, and family-school education programs spanning infancy through young adulthood. The...
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This volume in the Family School Community Partnership Issues series, explores ways in which schools can partner with communities. University, business, and museum partnerships are just a few of the school-community connections discussed in this volume. Contents:Introduction-The School-Community Connection by Diana B. Hiatt-MichaelEducational Reform: The Community School Approach by Martin J. BlankA Full-Service Community School by Joy G....
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This resource gives ideas and activities that can be adapted for any college campus. It also gives a glimpse at service-learning projects on campuses across the country. This toolkit explains service-learning and its long-term benefits, offers tips for effective volunteer program management, reflection questions and activities, curricular and co-curricular service-learning options, 25 sample service projects, case studies from a variety of...
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Title translates to "Tools for the Development of Joint Education Projects: Module 4." This is module four of the complete set of guides on service-learning produced by Argentina's Programa Nacional Escuela y Comunidad.Este módulo se propone aportar ideas, sugerencias y herramientas prácticas para todos aquellos docentes que se propongan implementar proyectos de aprendizaje-servicio de calidad. Los contenidos aquí presentados no...
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Title translates to "Community Intervention Projects and the Institutional Educational Project: Module 3." This is module three of the complete set of guides on service-learning produced by Argentina's Programa Nacional Escuela y Comunidad.Respondiendo a una demanda recibida por parte de docentes de todo el país, el Programa Nacional Escuela y Comunidad ha iniciado la producción de una serie de materiales de apoyo para facilitar...
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Title translates to "School and Community: The Educational Approach of Service-Learning: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth International Seminar 'School and Community.'" From Argentina."Escuela y Comunidad: experiencias educativas solidarias" compendia apretadamente dos años de trabajo sostenido en la consolidación de una línea de política educativa centrada en la promoción de los valores de la solidaridad y...
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Title translates to "Guide to Starting a Service-Learning Project." This is module one of the complete set of guides on service-learning produced by Argentina's Programa Nacional Escuela y Comunidad.Respondiendo a una demanda recibida por parte de docentes de todo el país, el Programa Nacional Escuela y Comunidad ha iniciado la producción de una serie de materiales de apoyo para facilitar la tarea de las escuelas que están...
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This article highlights successful efforts by youth in reinvigorating dying rural economies. The power of the youth and their ideas in the towns of Elsa, Texas, Howard, South Dakota and Lubec, Maine are explored. The article is followed by statistics on rural America and a list of characteristics of successful small communities.
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This eight-page brief introduces AACC's third national grant project. The goals of Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service 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 and to increase the number, quality, and...
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This guide is designed for use by individuals who will be involved in the observation of classrooms, including administrators, teachers, and evaluators. This booklet provides an overview of general strategies and approaches that may be used to observe instruction. This document is organized as a series of steps that guide you through the classroom observation process. These steps include: determining your purpose, selecting a method, selecting a...
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Service-learning, an instructional strategy for educators, has the potential to challenge students in diverse ways. It offers students experiential learning opportunities that are personally engaging, are educationally rigorous, require the direct application of knowledge and critical thinking skills, and transform both the community and the learner. Service-learning comprises a strong match with what are termed "brain compatible...
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A guide to integrating oral history and service-learning. Includes ways of integrating this kind of project with educational standards.
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This volume, seventh in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, explores the important lessons women’s history and women’s studies hold for the broader service-learning community and the critical opportunity for women’s studies to reconnect with its activist past. The book includes essays with real examples of service-learning projects in women’s studies and lists an extensive bibliography of service-...
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The articles in this volume present a diverse array of service-learning courses in biology. They stimulate thought and encourage biologists to either increase their efforts to incorporate service-learning into their courses or embark upon it for the first time. Contents: Educational Benefits Associated With Service-Learning Projects in Biology Curricula by John C. KennellAn Environmental Science Approach to Service-Learning in Biology by Jeffrey...
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This volume is designed to help management faculty, and those who manage them, to catch the vision of the service-learning movement. Articles include the following: Business Education for the 21st Century by Judith Samuelson; A Moral Argument for Service-Learning in Management Education by Paul Godfrey; Transforming Management Education: The Role of Service-Learning by Sandra Waddock and James Post; Management Students as Consultants: A Strategy...
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The book suggests ways of using children's stories to inspire and teach about service-learning and its various stages: planning, reflection, and celebration. Includes a bibliography of suggested works.
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An experienced team of youth consultants from a Leader School share their experiences with establishing a strong youth consultant-led service-learning program at their school. Learn how to both develop and maintain such a program, with youth taking the lead.
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This monograph deals with service-learning as an approach to teaching and learning in philosophy. Essays include the following: Knowledge, Foundations, and Discourse: Philosophical Support for Service-Learning by Goodwin Liu; Feminism, Postmodernism, and Service-Learning by Irene E. Harvey; Listening to the Evidence: Service A Civility and Understanding Social Phenomena by Hugh Lacey; The Use of a Philosopher: Socrates and Myles Horton by John...
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In 1997, the American Association of Community Colleges began a three year grant project to increase the number, quality, and sustainability of service-learning programs in community colleges nationwide. Fourteen colleges- selected in a national competition for grants ranging from $4000-$10,0000 per year- worked together in AACC's project, "Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning", to overcome challenges and learn...
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This volume is intended to help the reader understand service-learning, how it differs from traditional clinical medical education, and how, as a form of experiential education, it can have a profound impact on students, faculty, communities, medical schools, and the relationships among these important stakeholders. Essays include the following: "The Changing Health-Care System and Expectations of Physicians" by Edward O'Neil; "...
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This guidebook will provide teachers, schools, parents, and other community leaders with the needed ideas, strategies, and resources to effectively combine service-learning and character education in meaningful educational activities for children and young people. Service-learning provides a unique vehicle for involving parents, teachers, and other citizens with children and young people in effective character development experiences.
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The purpose of this monograph is not only to serve as a practical guide for faculty seeking to integrate service-learning into an engineering course but also to examine larger issues of engineering education, the mission of higher education in an increasingly technologically oriented society, and the role of service-learning as a catalysis for program reform and educational enhancement. [editor]
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This booklet, one in the Linking Learning with Life series from the National Dropout Prevention Center, discusses the need for collaboration between service groups and how to make this collaboration occur by using the PERC process. (AMK)
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This volume, 16th in a series about service learning and the academic disciplines, focuses on the ways service-learning adds immediacy and relevance to the study of history. The authors of this collection provide answers to why history and service-learning should be connected, and they describe strategies to bring this about.
