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Desmet, Ophélie Allyssa; Roberts, Anne Marie – Education Sciences, 2022
Positive creativity involves creative ideas and products that are beneficial to humanity. This paper discusses the importance of fostering positive and transformational creativity in PK-12 and college settings, and concrete classroom strategies for nurturing positive creativity through a service learning pedagogy. A brief history of service…
Descriptors: Creativity, Service Learning, Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
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Intrator, Sam M.; Siegel, Donald – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2010
Project Coach is an after school program developed and directed by the authors. The program, which is set in a high-need urban community in Springfield, Massachusetts, teaches high school and middle school students to be sport coaches and then to run youth sport leagues for elementary-aged youth in underserved neighborhoods in their own community.…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Outreach Programs, After School Programs, Service Learning
Cipolle, Susan Benigni – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010
This book provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice. The author describes practical strategies for classroom teachers along with the theoretical framework so readers can deftly move beyond the book to a meaningful program for…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Student Empowerment, Elementary Secondary Education, Service Learning
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Kong, Siu Cheung – Computers & Education, 2008
A literature review of the development of the information technology (IT) curriculum in recent decades in Hong Kong reveals that the aim of the curriculum has shifted from Computer Studies to the development of information literacy (IL). Based on a survey of all schools in Hong Kong and in response to the demand for IL in society, a curriculum…
Descriptors: School Culture, Service Learning, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
Wheeler, Gilda; Thumlert, Colleen; Glaser, Lise; Schoellhamer, Matt; Bartosh, Oksana – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2007
This study examined reports and programs from across the state, the nation and from international sources to gather a broad selection of published and unpublished environmental education research. A variety of sources were used, such as the internet, interviews with key informants and experts in the field of environmental and sustainability…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Graduation Requirements
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Lima, Marybeth – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2004
Service-learning has the power to transform K-12 and higher education and local communities. This paper details three suppositions about service-learning and community action based on experiences working with K-12 and higher education: (1) service-learning works best when it covers an overarching theme, (2) multiple models for working with K-12…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Engineering Education, Educational Change, Community Change