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Robert Laurence McLaughlin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
"Current research in the United States has found only a small percentage of adolescents have developed a sense of purpose. This dissertation investigates how a 2-year 11th and 12th-grade residential multicultural values-based experiential program influences adolescents' sense of purpose. The participants for this research included 2023…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Multicultural Education, High School Students, Grade 11
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Cempellin, Leda – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2012
This article focuses on the structure, challenges, and outcomes of a service-learning project experimented by an art historian in an innovative special topics course Museum Experience, cross-listed with an Honors art appreciation course. The discussion includes: creating a new course content planned according to a multidisciplinary perspective…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Arts Centers, Museums, Honors Curriculum
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Redfern, James; Burdass, Dariel; Verran, Joanna – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
School science laboratory classes and hands-on public engagement activities share many common aims and objectives in terms of science learning and literacy. This article describes the development and evaluation of a microbiology public engagement activity, "The Good, the Bad and the Algae", from a school laboratory activity. The school…
Descriptors: Microbiology, Program Descriptions, Service Learning, Science Laboratories
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Hughes, Carolyn; Boyd, Elizabeth; Dykstra, Sara J. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2010
Researchers in the educational field have investigated how a caring adult can best provide mentoring support to youth placed at risk and what functions a mentoring program should serve to promote healthy mentoring relationships. However, the perspective of mentors rarely has been sought to elicit their evaluation of a mentoring program or…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mentors, Learning Experience, Service Learning
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Saitta, E. K. H.; Bowdon, M. A.; Geiger, C. L. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
Technology was integrated into service-learning activities to create an interactive teaching method for undergraduate students at a large research institution. Chemistry students at the University of Central Florida partnered with high school students at Crooms Academy of Information Technology in interactive service learning projects. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Activities, Kinetics, Service Learning
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Gonzalez, Esther Luna; Rodriguez, Flor A. Cabrera – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2008
This paper describes a research project that has its origins in a broader research programme in Citizenship Education that is being undertaken by the intercultural education research group (GREDI) at the University of Barcelona. The programme, "From school to community," is intended to serve as a framework for teaching the process of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Multicultural Education, Service Learning, Secondary Education
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2010
Teachers who work together to blend academic and career/technical (CT) instruction have found a key to motivating students to complete high school and prepare for college, advanced training and careers. This newsletter highlights key strategies schools are using to join academic and technical studies to advance student motivation and achievement.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Academic Education, Technical Education
Lee, Seon-Young; Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Donahue, Rob; Weimbolt, Katrina – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2007
This study examined the effects of a service-learning program on the development of civic attitudes and behaviors of 230 high school students who were identified as academically gifted and participated in either a service-learning program or an accelerated academic program during the summer. Students' responses to 3 surveys measuring civic…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Academically Gifted, Service Learning, Leadership
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Taylor, Pamela G.; Ballengee-Morris, Christine – Art Education, 2004
This article focuses on service-learning, a method whereby students learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that is conducted in and meets the needs of communities. It is coordinated with an elementary school, secondary school, institution of higher education, or community service program and the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Participation, Citizenship, Social Responsibility
Kahne, Joseph E.; Sporte, Susan E. – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2007
This study of 4,057 students from 52 high schools in Chicago examines the impact of civic learning opportunities on students' commitments to civic participation. The study controls for demographic factors, pre-existing civic commitments, and academic test scores. Unlike prior large scale studies that found limited impact from school based civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Political Issues, Citizen Participation, Service Learning
Swail, Watson Scott; Kampits, Eva – Online Submission, 2004
The Higher Education -- Students Speak II survey was developed by the New England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC) and the Educational Policy Institute to identify the types and breadth of work-based learning activities that four-year college students experienced during high school, and to determine the correlation of these activities on…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning Activities, Grade Point Average, Credits