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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.
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.
Training Student Organizers Curriculum (Revised Edition), Michael Zamm, Robert Ortner, Beverly Deangelis
Training Student Organizers Curriculum (Revised Edition), Michael Zamm, Robert Ortner, Beverly Deangelis
Curriculum
This second edition of the Training Student Organizers Curriculum has been written to reflect the project organizing experiences of students, teachers and staff participating in the Council on the Environment of New York City's Training Student Organizers Program (TSO) since the first edition of the curriculum was published in 1983. We have expanded the lessons/narratives in Part I to include more information on environmental issues and have also added lessons and/or narratives for specific environmental action projects. The "how to's" of project organizing are described, step by step, in specific improvement projects in Part I, and reviewed as a total …