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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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This booklet provides an understanding of focus groups and when they are appropriate to use and for what purposes a focus group makes sense. Additionally, the reader is provided with clear direction regarding a process for designing a focus group research project. These include: documenting research objectives; selecting the right methodology; designing the research; and planning and logistics, along with preparing the discussion guide....
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This project, supported by the Corporation for National Service and administered by the American Association of Community Colleges, was developed toincrease the number, quality, and sustainability of service learning programs in community colleges nationwide. It features model programs, national data collection and dissemination, and an information clearinghouse. In addition, Horizons provides professional development opportunities and technical...
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The pamphlet offers suggestions on how to initiate and sustain a service-learning task force in order to enhance a school's service-learning program. Five steps for getting started are gaining administrative support; educating faculty about service-learning; establishing a task force for service-learning that includes faculty, administrators or counselors, students, community leaders, parents, and representatives from community agencies;...
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The author notes that parents may be valuable players in the community service movement if they are educated about community service; provided with opportunities to become involved in it; invited to reflect and offer feedback on community service programs; and by allowing parents the chance to show what they have gained by becoming leaders in the community service movement. She gives specific examples of how parents' interest can be fostered...
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This book begins with six articles that address how psychological theory, research, and practice bear on collaborating with communities, interpreting changes in students, and using psychological techniques to understand and act on social problems. The remaining articles demonstrate how service-learning can be effectively integrated into a variety of psychology courses so that student learning is enhanced in breadth and depth. Articles include...
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Part of the series Linking Learning With Life, out-of-school youth as young are defined as those aged 16-26 who are not formally enrolled in elementary, secondary, or post secondary education and have not completed their education. The booklet considers the reasons why traditional education has failed this group, describes types of programs that are recapturing students (full service community schools, adult learning centers, communities in...
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This guide was written by a principal, a teacher, and a former student from Booneville Middle School in Mississippi. Booneville Middle School has integrated an environmental service-learning program for their fifth through eighth grade classes. The guide provides information on how to implement such a program into a curriculum from the perspective of the teacher and administrator. The guides also features the student's perspective.
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This primer on service-learning provides a brief overview defining and stating the benefits of service-learning, describes types of partnerships (with human service organizations, business and industry, and school), gives procedures to help nurture partnerships and service-learning programs, defines the roles and responsibilities within partnerships, and provides sample service-learning agreement and evaluation forms. (SH)
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The chapters in this collection describe ways in which nursing has begun to incorporate service-learning as a methodology into many diverse settings. Chapters include the following:Humanistic Learning in the Context of Service: The Liberal Arts in Nursing Education, by Jean BartelsPreparing Nurses for Roles That Will Improve Community Health: Two National Programs Enhance Relationships Between Providers and Educators, by Mary Kay Kohles, et...
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This collection intends to introduce and provide concrete materials on service-learning to be used by accounting faculty and educators. The chapters and authors include: "Service Learning: An Active Learning Approach for Accounting Education" by D.V. Rama "Service Learning The Accountants for the Public Interest Perspective" by Wayne Bremser "What I Do, I Understand: Service Learning in Accounting Curricula" by...
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The booklet is about the potential and actual use of service learning as an instructional methodology in teacher education. It addresses meaning, rationale, key components, challenges and issues, promising practices, possible benefits, resources, and evaluation. The authors note that teacher education is naturally related to service learning, as both fields already emphasize service and learning. (SH)
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This booklet introduces school to work and service-learning as two educational reforms with rich histories and as reforms to address the needs of the 1991 SCANS report. The SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) Report was a study that showed educators what skills the business community expected and wanted to see in graduates.
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As part of the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National Service, the American Association of Community Colleges helped develop campus-based programs that became a nucleus for a growing community college service learning network. Ten colleges, selected in a national competition for grants ranging from $2,000 to $12,000 per year, trained faculty and developed or strengthened relationships with organizations that offered...
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A compilation of articles by faculty, administrators, and community members across the nation who are looking at the role of colleges and universities in addressing community needs. Chapters include:Campus and Community at Providence CollegeThe Selling of Service Learning to the Modern UniversityReality Based Service LearningTaking the Next Step: Fostering University-Community Collaborations that Reach Beyond Service-LearningUniversities as...
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The first volume in AAHE and Campus Compact’s series on service-learning in the disciplines, the book discusses the microrevolution in college-level Composition through service-learning. The essays in this volume show why service-learning and communication are a natural pairing and give a background on the relationship between service-learning and communication with maps to suggest where it should go in the future. Chapters include:...
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This guide is developed for young people who are interested in becoming a youth consultant or helping youth become consultants. It verifies the role of the youth consultant: to motivate and train other youths in service-learning practices. It gives examples for youth, and makes clear the professional and personal responsibilities of the youth consultant. Includes VHS video.
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This practical guide is intended for faculty and service-learning directors, combining the how-to information and rigorous intellectual framework that teachers seek. What distinguishes this volume is that the contributors are writing for their peers. They discuss how service-learning can be implemented within political science and what this discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service-learning. The book offers both theoretical...
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Educators seeking to provide successful school experiences for youth at risk are finding new allies in the ever-expanding prevention field. Strategies developed in Therapeutic Recreation (TR) are now seen to be effective in enhancing the protective factors which increase a child's potential for school and life success. Adaptable to an educational environment, TR provides the educator with new approaches to meeting the needs of those students who...
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The booklet emphasizes what college students (as well as their professors) can do in partnership with forces outside their campuses to help alleviate school dropout of children at risk through their community service and service learning activities. The booklet describes how to find partners, how to set objectives for the dropout alleviation, how to plan, evaluate, and celebrate successful programs. The authors also describe in detail ten...
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Giving Youth the Power and the Money: A Guide to Establishing Youth Service Learning Councils (1997)Part of the series Linking Learning with Life, the pamphlet defines and describes the benefits of youth service-learning councils. A youth service-learning council is defined as a representative and diverse body of youth formed to administer youth service mini-grant projects. It offers advice on how to start a council, form a council, and train a council. The author stresses that each youth council should be formed and shaped by the local...
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This monograph is an attempt to bring together the best recent work in the field to assist teacher educators in developing successful service-learning in their programs and to promote policies and procedures that will foster successful service-learning activities at the local, state, and national levels. Presents models of teacher education courses and programs that integrate service-learning from James Madison University, Kentucky State...
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The book is part of the series Linking Learning With Life and concretely explains how service-learning is an educational methodology. Wright explains how administrators may deal with scheduling, transportation, funding, and liability issues; professional development, curricular integrity, student assessment, and program evaluation educational issues; and building an infrastructure, public relations, and community support and involvement as...
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The fourteen essays in this book focus on service-learning in higher education, its theoretical framework, the advantages of various techniques, and practical means for implementation. Service-learning is seen to offer students the chance to combine academic knowledge and skills with community experience. Contents: "Service Learning in Today's Higher Education - Barbara Jacoby / Principles of Good Practice in Service Learning" by...
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To determine the level of involvement in service learning among community colleges, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) conducted a national survey of over 1,100 colleges in spring 1995. The following institutional and program profile, based on responses from 773 institutions, emerged from the survey: (1) four out of five community colleges indicated that they were interested in service-learning; (2) 75% of the respondents...
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This resource is a compilation of articles by faculty, administrators, and community members across the nation that looked at the role of colleges and universities in addressing community needs. Articles fall into one of three categories: Building Connections; Lessons Learned; and Program and Assessment Tools. Topics include experiential education, service-learning in legal education, ethical concerns, service-learning in health professions,...
