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Service-learning is a tool that can be used to teach about voting and the political process and increase civic and political engagement among students. These resources provide ideas for and research on voting-related service-learning projects for K-12 and higher education students.
Learn and Serve America funded service-learning grants are an excellent way to teach about voting and the political process. However, any activity designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office is prohibited by Learn and Serve America grant provisions. Additionally, under the Learn and Serve America Higher Education Program grant provisions neither participants nor staff may engage in voter registration drives while charging time to the program or engaging in programmatic activities supported by Learn and Serve Higher Education grant funds. You are advised to check first with your program officer before engaging in any political education service-learning activity whenever you are uncertain of the permissibility.
NSLC-Produced Resources
- Civics and Citizenship Education: Selected Resources
- Civics in K-12 Education
- Educating for Democracy
NSLC Library Items
- The Civic Bonding of School and Family: How Kids Voting Students Enliven the Domestic Sphere (2003), Michael McDevitt, Spiro Kiousis, Xu Wu, and Mary Losch (PDF)
- A Cross-National Analysis of Political and Civic Involvement Among Adolescents (2003), Judith Torney-Purta and Jo-Ann Amadeo (PDF)
- Democratic Theory and Civic Measurement: A Report on the Measuring Citizenship Project (n.d.), Benjamin Barber and Robert Higgins
- Destination Democracy Kids Voting USA: High School Service-Learning Curriculum (n.d.)
- Engaging Students as Volunteers and Voters (2008), Paul Loeb, Maureen Curley, and Sherry Moreale (PDF)
- High School Community Service as a Predictor of Adult Voting and Volunteering (2007), James Youniss, Daniel Hart, Thomas Donnelly, and Robert Atkins
- The Impact of Service-Learning on Political Participation (2001), William Morgan
- Just Vote! Civic Participation and Service-Learning Curriculum (n.d.) (PDF)
- Service-Learning Elections Projects in Response to Identified Problems and Needs (2008) (PDF)
- Service to Civics (2003)
- Taking Back the Vote: Getting American Youth Involved in Our Democracy (2004), Jane Eisner
- Why Young Americans Hate Politics (2004)
- Your Vote - Your Voice: National Campus Voter Registration Project Organizing Handbook (2004) (PDF)
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