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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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This issue paper describes the reasons service-learning is used in preservice teacher education, examines challenges to its use and strategies for success, and presents examples of successful programs. Also offers suggestions and resources to assist K-12 school systems and education leaders in making policy decisions that will maximize service-learning's impact.
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Well-structured service-learning partnerships are vital to the community college conscience in many ways. Community colleges make up a vast network that can provide critical support to schools and the national effort to train teachers for the 21st century. Through service-learning, tomorrow's teachers can be helped to value civic democracy and civil diversity and to have the human touch, learned and nurtured through service.
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This issue paper examines why administrators support service-learning as a key element in school improvement, what questions they may need to address and how administrators can support and strengthen service-learning in their schools.
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In July 1997 a group of native educational leaders from the United States (including Alaska and Hawai'i), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gathered to define a potential solution to this question. This book passes on the individual educational philosophies of the participants and captures the essence of each in a dynamic, transformational, and holistic model--"Go to the Source"--which forwards a collective vision for a native...
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Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond (2000)Today's colleges and universities face increasing pressure to develop programs and curricula that will teach students how to handle life's unexpected challenges. Learning That Lasts explores what it means for learners to transform themselves and for educators to foster essential skills for learning, leading, teamwork, and adapting with integrity in college and beyond. The authors draw from two decades of longitudinal studies on student learning...
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Title translates to "School and Community." This is module two of the complete set of guides on service-learning produced by Argentina's Programa Nacional Escuela y Comunidad.Este segundo módulo fue pensado para aquellas escuelas que hayan decidido poner en marcha proyectos solidarios de aprendizaje-servicio y ofrece algunas reflexiones y experiencias acerca de la articulación entre la escuela y las organizaciones de la comunidad.
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This booklet provides an understanding of surveys and when they are appropriate to use and for what purposes a survey makes sense. Additionally, the reader is provided with a process for designing a survey that includes: documenting research objectives; selecting the right methodology; designing the research; conducting the survey; and analyzing the results.The Educator’s Guide to Collecting and Using Data series of publications was...
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This curriculum is designed to give students the experience of developing, designing, and obtaining financing to open and run their own business. The business is a coffee shop with Internet access that will be open to the general public. Students maintain various jobs to learn about management, operations, inventory, sales, and customer service. Students participate in ongoing training focused on skills necessary for operating the coffee shop...
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This curriculum is designed to give students the opportunity to experience and discover the arts. It is a collaborative service-learning project between the local artistic community and a ninth grade English/Social Studies class poetry unit at Cambridge-Isanti High School. It was developed as part of Designing Collaborations Between Community Based Organizations and Schools to Produce Curriculum Models for Service Learning Programs, an effort...
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The Peer Helping/Community Service class at Henry Sibley High School works in cooperation with West St. Paul Police Department and the South Robert Street Business Association to assess and evaluate the need of a Community Halloween Haunted House. The goals of the project are to provide a safe, drug-free environment for preschool, elementary, and junior high students and their families. The students in the class learn skills ranging from...
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This issue brief states that in 1996, about half (49 percent) of students in grades 6-12 participated in community service: 26 percent participated on a regular basis, and 23 percent participated once or twice during the school year. Those in grades 6-12 were more likely to participate in community service if an adult in the household also did so. For example, 32 percent of students who lived in a household with an adult who participated in...
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This booklet describes the benefits of intergenerational service learning whether youth serve older adults, older adults serve youth, or both generations work together with a service learning mission. The authors guide program coordinators and potential coordinators through various aspects of intergenerational projects, including senior volunteer recruitment, liability issues, training and orientation, ice breaker activities, evaluation, example...
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The book serves as a guide to securing grant funding for service learning projects. Keys to successful funding opportunities include defining the administrator's role in grant seeking, finding funding sources, developing a proposal strategy and creating the plan to implement the proposal. (SH)
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This book presents informed current thinking on the topic of community service-learning programs for youth, offering both veteran and new voices in the field. Combining theory and research with descriptions of innovative programs and specific recommendations for program design, the authors argue for an approach to service-learning that engages youth not only in helping others but in critical reflection and the democratic pursuit of social reform...
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This book examines the issues involved in creating reflective learning environments and raises questions that will help guide individuals' development as facilitators of learning. Section 1 looks at reflection as the core of learning. Section 2 describes the three stages in the reflective process: creating, observation, and analysis of the environment. Section 3 provides examples of reflective activities that can meet the needs of diverse...
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This collection aims at helping teachers, administrators, and students realize the potential of service-learning in Spanish classes. Chapters include the following: Service-Learning and Spanish: a Missing Link, by Aileen Hale Critical Pedagogy and Service-Learning in Spanish: Crossing Borders in the Freshman Seminar, by Jonathann Arries Service-Learning and Language Acquisition Theory and Practice, by Jeanne Mullaney From Instrumental to...
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This guidebook is intended to help coaches and other adults working with young athletes supplement their efforts to help student athletes develop leadership skills, team building and civic responsibility; discover ways to help student athletes learn how to be leaders off the field; and help set up a peer leadership program for sports teams irrespective of the students' age levels.
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Cultivating the Sociological Imagination: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Sociology contains thirteen articles, essays, and interviews from experts in the field. Articles include interviews of practitioners, an annotated bibliography of projects and publications on service-learning in sociology courses, and discussions on service-learning and sociology. Articles include: Service-Learning: Not Charity, but a Two-Way Street- Judith...
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This resource is a sampling of dissertations written from approximately 1990 to 1998 on service and service learning. Dissertation summaries are organized by topic, such as higher education, civic education, and impacts, and are accessible through appendices by author, adviser, and school. (111 dissertations are included.) (AT)
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Service Learning and Teacher Education (SLATE) is a concept that embraces the idea of using experiential learning in a way that engages teacher education faculty and students in strengthening their teaching and learning attitudes and skills while contributing to the empowerment of the community. This publication describes SLATE, provides examples of SLATE in action, and lists resources for teachers interested in pursuing SLATE.
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Ninth in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series, this book discusses the pervasive use of service-learning in environmental studies programs and explains why it often is a required part of the environmental studies curriculum. Contributors from a wide range of college and university environmental studies programs discuss the benefits and challenges these programs provide and the consequent natural fit between environmental studies...
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This volume provides essays on the integration of service-learning into the field of peace studies. Essays include the following: Moral Dimensions of Peace Studies: A Case for Service-Learning- Kathleen Maas Weigert Peace Studies, Pedagogy, and Social Change- Robin Crews Service-Learning as Education: Learning From the Experience of Experience- Michael Scharatz and Rob Walker Study, Act, Reflect, and Analyze: Service-Learning and the Program...
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Program reports of students working with community organizations on dropout prevention. There are a variety of ways that young people can help prevent their peers from dropping out of school. Learn the most effective strategies from this guidebook to make those connections.
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Includes conceptual essays, pedagogical papers (at the course and institutional level) on the topic of communication studies and service-learning. Part of a series covering a range of specific disciplines in higher education. Contents:Service-Learning in Communication: A Natural Partnership - James L. Applegate and Sherwyn P. Morreale (National Communication Association)Service-Learning in Communication: Why? - Paul A. SoukupIntegrating...
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This edition of Service Matters is a collection of stories profiling a particular campus, describing the community service, service-learning, and broader campus-community efforts happening there. It also includes the text of the Presidents' Fourth of July Declaration on the Civic Responsibility of Higher Education.
