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Service-Learning As "Citizenship" Education: The Promise And The Puzzles, Bernadette Sun Chi
Service-Learning As "Citizenship" Education: The Promise And The Puzzles, Bernadette Sun Chi
Curriculum
Since developing "citizenship" is a prevalent goal for many service-learning programs and policies, Bernadette Chi's National Service Fellowship research proposed to examine what and how students learn "citizenship" through service-learning. She explored students' attitudes about service, their understanding of citizenship, and the relationship between the concepts as a way to consider how service-learning contributed to students' conceptions of citizenship. To suggest how and why students' attitudes differed, this report also briefly describes the significant role of teachers in shaping service-learning experiences, and the variety of service-learning practices that contribute to a diversity of outcomes. In coordination with a state-funded study …
Discovering Citizenship Through Community Development, Institute For Global Education And Service Learning
Discovering Citizenship Through Community Development, Institute For Global Education And Service Learning
Curriculum
Facilitator's Manual: Curriculum to Establish Community Development Youth Corps
Cis Middle School Community Service Handbook 1998-99, Cis Middle School
Cis Middle School Community Service Handbook 1998-99, Cis Middle School
Curriculum
Our educational philosophy stresses the development of the whole person. Its concerns extend beyond the focus on academic and intellectual achievement and encourage responsible citizenship in the world outside the classroom.
Educating A Committe Citizenry, Faith Gabelnick
Educating A Committe Citizenry, Faith Gabelnick
Higher Education
If we want our students to acquire the democratic virtues of honesty, tolerance. empathy. generosity. teamwork, and social responsibility, we have to demonstrate those qualities not only in our individual professional conduct but also in our institutional policies," writes Alexander Astin in "What Higher Education Can Do in the Cause of Citizenship"' (Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 1995).