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Service-Learning As "Citizenship" Education: The Promise And The Puzzles, Bernadette Sun Chi Jan 2000

Service-Learning As "Citizenship" Education: The Promise And The Puzzles, Bernadette Sun Chi

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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 Jan 2000

Discovering Citizenship Through Community Development, Institute For Global Education And Service Learning

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Facilitator's Manual: Curriculum to Establish Community Development Youth Corps


Cis Middle School Community Service Handbook 1998-99, Cis Middle School Jan 1998

Cis Middle School Community Service Handbook 1998-99, Cis Middle School

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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.