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Make Sure It's Service Learning, Not Just Community Service, Leonard T. Burns
Make Sure It's Service Learning, Not Just Community Service, Leonard T. Burns
Special Topics, General
Service learning may be made more beneficial to communities by allowing students to participate aggressively in various learning activities, while keeping them abreast with their own social responsibilities. Students must also be given adequate opportunity to reflect on their service experiences.
Elder Mentors: Elder Mentors And At-Risk Youth, Marc Freedman
Elder Mentors: Elder Mentors And At-Risk Youth, Marc Freedman
Intergenerational
Many at-risk youth are growing up isolated from the range of caring and consistent adult relationships so important for navigating the treacherous course from adolescence to adulthood. An accumulation of longitudinal research suggests that adult relationships-- provided not only by parents, but by grandparents, neighbors and other interested adults--are a common factor among resilient children, who achieve success despite growing up in disadvantaged and stressful circumstances. An important, and not often addressed, question for social intervention is whether the circumstances of more at-risk youth could be improved through efforts designed to provide greater access to these relationships.
Transforming Service Learning: An Argument For The Radical Inclusion Of Young People, Dana R. Fusco
Transforming Service Learning: An Argument For The Radical Inclusion Of Young People, Dana R. Fusco
School K-12
While much has been written delineating the reasons for supporting service learning, rarely have students' views been included. As a result of creating collective dialogues with young people, this article presents service learning from their perspective. Further, the methodology by which young people could be heard is put forth as a tool for bringing service learning to a new level.