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Educating For Social Responsibility, Sheldon Berman
Educating For Social Responsibility, Sheldon Berman
Service Learning, General
Schools must help students fight their feelings of powerlessness by developing their sense of community and their confidence that they can make a difference in the world.
Student Service Learning And Student Activities -- A Perfect Fit, Deborah Craig
Student Service Learning And Student Activities -- A Perfect Fit, Deborah Craig
Higher Education
"A thousand points of light ... Lifetime national service ... Be part of the solution ... The volunteer initiative ... Corporate volunteerism ... " These and other slogans have become popularized during the past few years as the "Me Generation" is being replaced by the "We Generation." Yes, volunteerism is once more in vogue, but the issues of the '80s and '90s arc different from those of the '60s. Vietnam and civil rights versus illiteracy and homelessness. Today's issues are less personal for today's typical college students. Very few of them have personally experienced illiteracy or having been homeless. But …
Comprehensive And Integrative Planning For Community Development, Ronald Shiffman, Susan Motley
Comprehensive And Integrative Planning For Community Development, Ronald Shiffman, Susan Motley
Partnerships/Community
Over the years, both the public and nonprofit sectors have moved away from comprehensive, community-based planning strategies, lured by "quick fix" of a project-by-project development strategy. Unquestionably, these projects have directly benefited some poor individuals and families. More often than not, however, they do little to increase the economic vitality of the community in which the project is developed. To deal effectively with the issues of community disorganization and poverty and to broaden participation in the community renewal process, we must examine in today's light the originally envisioned community development corporation model and its principles. We need to plan, initiate, …
Youth Service: From Youth As Problems To Youth As Resources, Bonnie Benard
Youth Service: From Youth As Problems To Youth As Resources, Bonnie Benard
School K-12
New Paradigm "Youth as problems, or youth as resources? Communities with problems or communities with resources?" These opening sentences to Reaching Out. a recent book on establishing community service programs for youth, encapsulate a critical issue I see confronting anyone relating to or working with young people, whether as parents, teachers, community folk, or prevention advocates and other helping professionals: the framework or perspective from which we view youth in our society today. Whether we view youth as problems or as resources determines not only our expectations for our youth and our actions towards them, but also the type of …
Service-Learning Advances School Improvement: A Position Paper From The International Service Learning Initiative, Barbara Gomez
Service-Learning Advances School Improvement: A Position Paper From The International Service Learning Initiative, Barbara Gomez
Special Topics, General
The base on which the United States is built is participatory democracy -achieved only when all citizens are included in choice and decision-making. Nothing could be worse for our nation than to have our children feel alienated from the communities in which they attend school. For more than 200 years the rest of the world has been watching our progress, and as we have succeeded they have made efforts to emulate our sense of individual freedom and collective responsibility for governance.
Differences In Interpersonal Values Among Students Involved In Volunteer Service, R. Thomas Fitch
Differences In Interpersonal Values Among Students Involved In Volunteer Service, R. Thomas Fitch
Higher Education
A study of college students involved m. community service volunteer activities found that students' interpersonal values differed relative to whether they were involved through religious, Social Greek, or service organizations.