Service-Learning: A Balanced Approach to Experiential Education
For over a quarter of a century, education researchers and practitioners have struggled to determine how to best characterize service-learning. In 1979, Robert Sigmon defined service-learning as an...
View ArticleService-Learning in the United States: Status of Institutionalization
Service-learning takes students beyond the traditional classroom by integrating service to the community into the academic curriculum. In forming new connections to their communities, students...
View ArticleService-Learning in Community-Based Organizations: A Practical Guide to...
Whether you’re new to service-learning or have been doing it for years, this guide gives you and your organization the tips, tools, and techniques you need to start making a positive difference in...
View ArticleTeen Toolkit: Prepare Today - Lead Tomorrow
Prepare Today—Lead Tomorrow is a teen service-learning experience developed through a grant from Learn and Serve America by Camp Fire USA staff from councils across the country. The goals of this...
View ArticleMaking the Case for Social and Emotional Learning and Service-Learning
This ECS Issue Brief provides an overview and description of both social and emotional learning (SEL) and service-learning (S-L) as tools to improve the lives and academic performance of students. It...
View ArticleSharing Your National Service Story: A Guide to Working With the Media
Running a national service program is more than a full-time job. Between developing projects, recruiting volunteers, managing finances, seeking resources, and filling out paperwork, it may feel like...
View ArticleThe Status of Service-Learning in the United States: Some Facts and Figures
This report focuses on service and service-learning in high schools. The report compares data from 1984 research with information from two studies of service and service-learning completed in 1997....
View ArticleShumer's Self-Assessment for Service Learning
The Shumer Self-Assessment for Service-Learning (SSASL) is designed as a self-reflective system for professionals in the service-learning and experiential learning fields. What follows is a series of...
View ArticleDescribing Service-Learning: A Delphi Study
Service-learning is spreading. Congress passed the National and Community Service Act (1990) and states have been implementing service-learning programs in record numbers. With the rapid expansion,...
View ArticleH.R. 2335, June 8 1993, Committee on Education and Labor Bill
To amend certain education laws to provide for service-learning and to strengthen the skills of teachers and improve instruction in service-learning, and for other purposes.
View ArticleCorporation for National and Community Service: Strategic Plan 2006-2010
Through the programs of the Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation), Americans are investing their time, energy, and talent to improve the lives of others and strengthen their...
View ArticleApplying Theory to Community Service: A Boyeristic Model
In 1994 fifty faculty members, representing various departments and colleges at Ball State University, met and, for several days, discussed Boyer's (1990), Scholarship Reconsidered The result of these...
View ArticleThe Theoretical Roots of Service-Learning in John Dewey: Toward a Theory of...
As interest in service-learning research multiplies. there is a concomitant need fora theoretical base for service-learning. In this article the authors review aspects of John De1wy 's educational and...
View ArticleDewey's Theory of Experience: Implications for Service-Learning
Cornell’s Dwight Giles, Jr. relates John Dewey’s concept about education and experience to service-learning. Giles suggest a dialectical interaction between service and learning, which had...
View ArticleService-Learning and School-to-Work: Making the Connections
Recently, much attention has been focused on two federal initiatives that encourage students to explore learning opportunities outside the classroom. The National and Community Service Trust Act and...
View ArticleService Learning Models Connecting Computer Science to the Community
Service learning is an educational experience that enables students to apply material learned in the classroom by volunteering in a real-world situation. This paper provides a brief review of service...
View ArticleIs Service-Learning Really Better Than Community Service? A Study of High...
In their 1981 study, the Experiential Education Evaluation Project, Dan Conrad and Diane Hedin investigated the impact of a range of experiential education programs on secondary school students. The...
View ArticleHighlights from Service-Learning in California's Teacher Education Programs:...
The purpose of this white paper is to provide a set of recommendations for advancing service-learning in California's Teacher Education programs. The recommendations are based on the findings from a...
View ArticleToward an Ideal Relational Ethic: Re-thinking university-community engagement
This article argues for the importance of developing a relational ethic to guide university-community engagement practices and processes. Our objective is to demonstrate that ethical 'engagement...
View ArticleService-Learning, 1902
"We are all segregated in the prison of class," mused turn-of-the-century literature professor Vida Dutton Scudder. "More than we recognize, our inner life is shaped by the traditions of the group to...
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